The Houston Police Department claimed this is protocol, and it doesn't mean that the officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing. However, the victim's mother feels his return to duty is unjustified.
ByThe family of a woman who was fatally hit by a Houston Police Department vehicle more than two months ago is furious after learning that the officer seen killing her on dash cam video is back on duty.last Wednesday, showing the officer's partner yelling out as the car collided with the victim.Video from inside Officer Shelby Kennedy's vehicle showed her traveling along Antoine near Pinemont at 9:52 p.m. on Sept. 19 when she drove full speed into a group of three people.
"What was she doing that she didn't see these people in the street?" Barnes asked. "Her passenger saw them, and he wasn't even driving." "I'm not going to let this go. This was a mother, a sister, a daughter, a cousin, a friend," Barnes said. Investigators previously said the two officers were transporting an arrested suspect to the Joint Processing Center at the time of the crash.
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