A new video released by a law firm Tuesday appears to show a Fort Worth police officer shooting a man in the back as he walked away.
Police say he was holding a box cutter and fit the description of a robbery suspect at a gas station earlier in the night.
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Collie was shot by an off-duty Fort Worth officer and an off-duty Tarrant County sheriff’s deputy who was working security at the time.
David Collie, the man shot by the officer, released the dashcam footage of the shooting through his attorney, Nate Washington of The Washington Law Firm, according to KXAS-TV (NBC5).
The video shows the officers get out of their squad car and approach Collie, who raises one hand toward them and is then shot.
Police say Collie refused commands to put his hands up and that he had pulled a silver box cutter out of his pocket and pointed it at the deputy, prompting the officer to shoot him.
Collie was hospitalized for 61 days and was paralyzed below the abdomen. He was charged with aggravated assault on a public servant, but a grand jury later dismissed the case.
While the law firm and others that know little about law enforcement continue to point to the fact that Collie was shot “in the back”, that has little to do with case law or whether the officer’s failed to perceive a threat.
The Fort Worth Police Department has not commented on the video.
