Victim says off-duty police
officer chased him, held gun to his head. Details of last summer’s incident now
coming to light.
BY DEBORAH HASTINGS
Edgar Sanchez says he had a
gun pointed at his head by an off-duty policeman in Dallas after a frightening
road rage attack.
In an incident last summer
that is just now coming to light, Officer Demont Hickman was suspended for 10
days, but never charged, following the confrontation that was partially
captured on a bystander's cell phone.
"He followed me in his
car," Sanchez told WFAA-TV. "I lowered my window. I said 'I'm sorry,'
and the person pointed a gun at me and he followed me."
Cell phone video shows the
beefy, off-duty cop holding Sanchez down in the dirt as police cars roar up in
the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie.
A witness is heard in the
background saying "You had it on his head and he wasn't doing
anything," an apparent reference to the officer's gun.
Dallas police recently
released an Internal Affairs report that described Hickman's actions as an
"inappropriate use of force" but concluded "Officer Hickman did
not point his weapon at anybody," the station reported.