US: Texas officer fired after shooting teenager

Name: US: Texas officer fired after shooting teenager
Uploaded: 08 Oct 2022, 11:44:34 AM
Duration: 01:00
Channel: TIMESOFINDIA.COM

2 views | Oct 08, 2022, 11:44:34 AM | AP

Police say a Texas police officer who shot and wounded a teenager who had been sitting in his car eating a hamburger has been fired. San Antonio Officer James Brennand was fired after shooting Erik Cantu, 17, on Oct. 2 in a fast food restaurant parking lot, police training commander Alyssa Campos said in a video statement released Wednesday. Brennand had responded to an unrelated disturbance at the fast-food restaurant when he saw the Cantu inside the car, which had evaded him a day earlier, Campos said. Brennand, who had been on the force for less than one year, violated his training and police procedures after approaching the car, Campos said. Cantu, in the officer's body camera video, looks toward Brennand while holding a hamburger, then backs the car away, striking the officer with the open door.