Four Houston police officers fired after months-long investigation into fatal shooting found that they were 'objectively unreasonable' in discharging 21 rounds at a man in distress.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said at Thursday's press briefing that the incident"has dramatically affected many people in this city."
He said that"for almost the entire time," he found no fault in the police officers' actions, but agreed that the final shooting was"not justified in this case." Joe Gamaldi, the president of the Houston Police Officers' Union, responded that the four officers were"fired today for a justified shooting," and called the decision"unjust and deplorable."
of several officers' body-camera footage released Thursday, 911 calls reporting a man in distress walking through traffic on a highway and through residents' yards are included. Chavez was distraught and"apparently suicidal," the police chief said in the video.Nicolas Chavez, seen in body-camera footage provided by the Houston Police Department of the shooting incident on April 21, 2020.
While on the ground, Chavez, who is visibly bloodied, throws the object and starts pulling a stun gun by its wires toward himself. He grabs it, at which point the four officers fire 21 shots. The stun gun was ultimately empty, though the officers said they were not aware of that, according to the police chief.
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