Graphic Body Cam Footage Shows Killer Cop as He Murders an
Innocent Unarmed Man
By Matt Agorist on June 3, 2015
Salt Lake City, UT — On August 11, 2014 Dillon Taylor was
gunned down in broad daylight by Officer Bron Cruz.
The confrontation happened because Cruz confused Taylor with
a possible criminal in the area.
Taylor, his brother, and his cousin were exiting a 7-Eleven
in an area where police were searching for a suspect who had allegedly been
waving a gun around. These uninvolved
young men allegedly matched the description.
When the three men exited the convenience store they were
surrounded by officers and ordered to show their hands. Two of the men stopped and complied, Dillon Taylor, listening to music, kept
walking.
Barely
40 seconds go by from the time Dillon is approached until he is
shot by Cruz.
The body cam footage was released in September of last year,
however, it stopped just after the shots were fired. Apparently the department
did not want you to see what happened after as the full video was not released
until this week. It shows the disturbing moments before and after this innocent
man was gunned down by police.
“He couldn’t hear them, so he just kept walking. Then … they
had guns pointed at his face. That’s when he turned off the music,” Taylor’s
brother Jerrail Taylor told the SLC Tribune. “I saw them point guns at my
brother’s face, and I knew what was going to happen.”
One
officer told Taylor to get on the ground, while another told him to put his
hands on his head.
“He got confused, he went to pull up his pants to get on the
ground, and they shot him,” Jerrail Taylor said.
A report by the Daily Kos provides a detailed breakdown of
the 7-minute video:
Now that the full video has been released, it’s disturbingly
clear that nothing about this police shooting was justified. Nothing at all.
At 0:17, Officer Bron Cruz gets out of his vehicle. You will
notice people confused by his presence.
At 0:22, Officer Cruz walks past two men who were friends
with Dillon Taylor.
At 0:24, Officer Cruz walks behind Taylor, who has on a
white T-shirt and is listening to music.
At 0:33, we see the officer has his gun drawn and is yelling
at Taylor, who’s holding his sagging pants up and does not appear to hear Cruz.
At 0:36, the officer shoots Taylor. It would be fatal.
Starting at 0:41, you will notice the headphone cord coming
out of Taylor’s pocket.
At 0:48, you will see that the headphones were clearly going
up to Taylor’s ears.
At 0:52, the officer asks Dillon to “give me your hands,”
but Taylor is already near death. His friends begin screaming and crying in the
background.
At 1:03, the officer handcuffs Taylor.
At
1:48, the officer turns Taylor over, the headphones are visible, and the
officer states “it’s clear”—meaning that Taylor was actually unarmed.
At 2:54, the officer turns Taylor completely over, keeping
him handcuffed, and begins talking to him and trying to get him to talk. Taylor
appears nearly dead and is completely covered in blood.
At 4:56, the officer is rummaging through Taylor’s pockets
instead of providing any first aid.
It seems that after the officer discovered Taylor was
unarmed, he pretended to care and provided a nice show for his body cam.
However, he never once attempted to simply apply pressure to the gaping hole in
Taylor’s chest.
WARNING: The video below is graphic and disturbing.
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