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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soD2BOln9ygFamily says video shows mentally unstable man did not pose threat to Dallas officers
For Jason Harrison’s mother, the call was routine. He was in a mental crisis, and she called 911 to ask that Dallas police take him to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Two officers arrived and Harrison’s mother calmly walked out her front door telling them her 38-year-old son was “off the chain,” before adding he was “bipolar schizo.”
When Harrison appeared in the doorway of his Red Bird-area home holding a screwdriver, Officers John Rogers and Andrew Hutchins ordered him to drop it.
Seconds later, the officers fired five shots at Harrison, fatally wounding him. Police say the officers fired after Harrison disobeyed their commands to drop the screwdriver. His family says officers acted improperly.
The family has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and the officers over the June 14 incident.
On Monday, attorneys for the family released a video showing the moments leading up to the shooting. The video from a body-worn camera does not clearly show the instant before the shots were fired, and both sides say it bolsters their position on the shooting in the 200 block of Glencairn Drive.
The family’s lawsuit says Harrison did not pose a threat, in part because the screwdriver he held was a small one used for computers. And he had never been violent before, his older brother, Sean Harrison said Monday.
Sean Harrison told reporters at the office of the family’s attorney, Geoff Henley, that the video proves the officers went “zero to 100” — shouting and pointing guns — without making any effort to try to negotiate with the mentally unstable man to drop the screwdriver.
“This is a perfect video for the Dallas Police Department to use in training as an example of what not to do,” Harrison said. “You don’t yell at them — that only agitates them.”
Harrison also said the officers should have used less lethal force, such as pepper spray or a Taser.
Chris Livingston, an attorney for both officers, called the shooting a “tragedy.” He said that although his clients were trained in handling mentally unstable people, the police should not be the first option when they need help.
Livingston said the officers feared for their lives that day because Jason Harrison lunged toward them and moved the screwdriver in a “stabbing motion.” He also said the officers didn’t have much room to maneuver away from Harrison because a car was parked behind them.
“They’re not going to wait to get stabbed before they shoot,” Livingston said. He added that killing someone with a screwdriver would be “pretty easy — it’ll only take one blow.”
Henley argued that Harrison was turning the screwdriver in his hands as a “nervous twitch — he was not wielding it in a manner in which it’s a deadly weapon.”
The shooting was the first one Dallas police captured on a body-worn camera. Hutchins had purchased the camera with his money, Livingston said. The department had provided a body camera to Rogers, but it didn’t work, Livingston said.
Harrison’s family obtained the video from the department as part of the civil rights lawsuit they filed in October.
Police officials have previously said the body camera video backs up the officers’ accounts of self-defense, showing a fast-unfolding event in a tightly confined space. They were protecting themselves, police said.
Rogers and Hutchins, who have both been on the force for more than five years, are back on full duty and the case is awaiting grand jury review.
Internal investigators are still reviewing the case to determine whether the officers violated any department policies, said police Lt. Jose Garcia.
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Grand Jury Clears Dallas Cops in Deadly Shooting of Man Wielding Screwdriver
A federal civil rights case is still pending
A grand jury has decided not to indict two Dallas police officers in the fatal shooting of a mentally ill man brandishing a screwdriver.
A Dallas County grand jury on Thursday found that John Rogers and Andrew Hutchins, two officers with the Dallas Police Department, did not act unlawfully in June when they shot 38-year-old Jason Harrison, who family members said was schizophrenic and bipolar but was not taking his medication.
Police were responding to a 911 call from Harrison’s mother requesting help getting him to the hospital. Video from a police body camera shows Harrison, who was black, in the doorway of his home holding a screwdriver, which officers demanded he drop.
The police shot Harrison and later said he was moving toward them aggressively, but Harrison’s lawyer said there is no evidence to substantiate those claims.
“Our view of the evidence is the film didn’t show any lunging, didn’t show any jabbing, didn’t show any thrusting,” Geoff Henley, an attorney for Harrison’s family, said. A federal civil rights lawsuit is still pending.