A fiery crash set off a series of events that would sully the cops’ careers and leave Tomiya Crenshaw with severe, life-altering burns.
Tomiya Crenshaw is suing two police officers over a crash. Whether the officers saw his wreck after they tried to stop him is in question.Tomiya Crenshaw poses for a photo at his lawyer’s office in Frisco, Texas on May 30. Crenshaw’s legs are scarred from injuries he sustained when his car caught on fire.When two Dallas police officers tried to stop Tomiya Crenshaw in South Dallas in the early morning hours of May 13, 2022, it was for a defective headlight.
A car drives onto the street without a headlight on. Anderson, who is driving, and Robertson turn on their emergency lights and pursue the car, which takes a left turn on Meadow Street and speeds away. Anderson and Robertson turn off their emergency lights. The man appeared to be wearing khaki shorts, which they found out later were Crenshaw’s burnt legs. Scorch marks were on him. Half of his red shirt was burnt off.
Anderson said he tried to turn off his body-camera, and said, “Motherf—-r got away” — seeming to believe Crenshaw drove off. That soundbite was played at the hearing but was not in the footageAnderson told the judge he didn’t think his comments were being recorded because he believed his body camera was turned off, so he had no reason to lie.
He drove to a nearby police substation for a restroom break, but Bishkin said within about 4 minutes, he heard on the police radio that someone had crashed a block over from the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. and Meadow.Once there, Anderson saw flames engulfing the car, which came to a rest south of the intersection. Further down the street, paramedics, other officers and the irate group of onlookers had gathered around Crenshaw.
“They’ll never admit that, but I think that they did feel some pressure from the chief who wanted to fire them — and so they gave him what he needed to fire them,” Bishkin said, adding García erred in “passing judgment before an investigation was done.”“Once you peel back the onions and actually look at it,” Bishkin said, “it’s not what it appears to be on first glance.”reached him by phone in October, citing the pending litigation.
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