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Body-worn camera footage played publicly for the first time Wednesday showed a San Antonio police officer firing twice at a then-teenager who was running away from him in a West Side neighborhood.
A Bexar County District Court judge has dismissed a deadly conduct charge against a former San Antonio police officer accused of firing shots at two teens who were running away from him, according to online court records.
Attorneys for three former San Antonio police officers accused of committing crimes while on duty have accused the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office Civil Rights Division of intentionally concealing evidence that would have set their clients free, court records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the deadly conduct trial of a former San Antonio police officer accused of firing shots at two teens who were running away from him.
A San Antonio Police Department officer was suspended 20 days this summer after making good on a threat to pull over a tow truck driver who worked for a specific company, records obtained by KSAT Investigates show.
A former San Antonio police officer who fired two shots toward juveniles running from him and was indefinitely suspended in 2020 has been arrested and charged with deadly conduct-firearm, according to sources.
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A San Antonio police officer who fired two shots toward juveniles running from him was indefinitely suspended, according to disciplinary records obtained by KSAT. City officials released disciplinary records Wednesday evening, more than six weeks after KSAT filed an open records request for the information. “Officer Cruz fired two rounds at the direction of the suspects as they fled the scene,” according to the records, which violates the departments use-of-force procedure. “Officer Cruz failed to use sound judgment when he continued to point the firearm in the direction of the arriving officer.”Records show Cruz was previously suspended at least once during his time with the San Antonio Police Department. Read more about how arbitration plays out of San Antonio police officers.
