The Atlanta Police release the body cam footage from the shooting of an ANTIFA radical protesting the building of a police academy. That shooting sparked riots even though the police shot 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Teran in self-defense after Teran shot an officer in the pelvic area. The Atlanta Police Department has assigned thirty police officers to keep the area cleared of trespassers. Antifa members and other domestic terrorists are protesting the building of the police training center.
The police have released body cam footage, but they left out the part where the shooting went down. I guess they decided it was too graphic, but they are going to have to show it to Teran’s family and the press. If they don’t, there could be more riots because they will think it is a cover-up. I think the riots were unnecessary if the police simply returned fire.
Then, you can hear some radio transmissions:
First officer: “Green tent… 100 meters from the crate… we have a big range of fireworks… we have a male screaming… not sure… are all officers okay?”
Second officer: “Got one officer down.”
Fox 5 Atlanta reports:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“At least one of those bullets was fired from a Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 9mm legally purchased by 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. Forensic evidence suggests one of the bullets fired from the gun ended up wounding a trooper in the ‘pelvic-area.’ The trooper was wearing a bullet-proof vest.”
The Atlanta Police Department (APD) has finally released body cam footage from that day. Although it doesn’t show the shooting, you can see officers from multiple law enforcement agencies attempting to clear the site of occupying activists, including close-ups of what the task force members find in the tents. Officers take items like a blow torch, measuring tape, nylon rope, and a cell phone into evidence.
At one point, the officers hear four shots, a pause, and then a series of shots of various calibers. All of the shooting takes place a distance away from where the task force members are clearing the property, so they don’t immediately know what’s going on.
The officers move closer to the green tent, while sirens wail and ATVs roar in the background. Police warn that the K9 unit is present and that the officers will fire non-lethal pepper balls into the tent. They eventually find Teran dead.
The Georgia State Patrol doesn’t wear body cameras under most circumstances, so we don’t have footage that directly involves the trooper’s shooting. But the Georgia Bureau of Investigation states that Teran refused to comply with the officers’ orders, which ensued in an “exchange of gunfire.”
Fox 5 also reports that the APD is assigning 30 officers to guard the site of the future training facility 24 hours a day.
Watch the entire 38-minute footage here:
I wonder if they ever plan to release the actual shooting.
