Shocking Bodycam images revealed the moment that the Texas police officers shot a man in the head with peppercers while he was sitting outside a cemetery on the grass.
Officers of Guadalupe County were seen in the images on 27 June 2021, who now approached 44-year-old Ronald Smith, who was on the grass, held with weapons for them on Smith.
Smith's lawyer, Andres Cano, said Dailymail.com: 'He is waiting for his wife to get him and he sees this [guy] Running with a gun looking at him, screaming, screaming, screaming. '
'Within ten seconds another rolls up and jumps out and they point weapons to him. You know, he is terrified … He's crazy, he calls 911 on them, “said Cano.
“Smith is frozen. He is a bit frozen by fear and one of the delegates switches to a pepper bogel gun. '
Bodycam images showed that an officer seemed to take a moment to switch to an orange colored weapon before Smith was shot into the head with the Peperkogel.
Cano said that Smith had played during the COVID-19 Pandemie, when moments were mainly cherished outside.
“He would go in the countryside, for walks, two or three-hour walks, to stay in shape and to keep mental common sense,” said Cano. And that's what he [was doing]. '
Officers of Guadalupe County were seen in the images who now approached 44-year-old Ronald Smith, who was sitting on the grass, with weapons for them on Smith.
Bodycam images showed that an officer seemed to take a moment to switch to an orange colored weapon before Smith was shot with the pepper bog
The officers argued that their actions were 'objectively reasonable' because 'Smith walked from Saenz, was invaded by private ownership, behaved irregularly and refused to follow the orders of the officers as soon as Saenz had caught up with him and Gonzalez on the spot'
The officers, representatives Hunter Saenz and Jimmy Gonzales, reportedly 'Smith with pointed firearms, smith hit the head with a pepper, Football hit the ground and jumped on his back with their knees on his neck and head,' the court claimed.
According to the complaint submitted by Smith, before the confrontation, Saenz 'Cruiser' was driven over the side shoulder and almost smith, “while he was exercising.
This led Smith to give Saenz the middle finger, stated the submission, who “indicated the displeasure of Smith that he was almost being run over and killed.”
From that moment Saenz 'would have been circled [Smith] Like a shark ', and' continued to drive through Smith '.
After he had lost sight of Saenz, Smith continued his walk before he stopped resting.
But while he waited for his wife to pick him up, he was approached by the two officers with their weapons.
Smith threw one hand in the air, with the other holding his phone he had used to call 911 after he saw the weapons of the officers pulled to him.
'Smith spoke directly with the 911 operator when Saenz shot him in the left temple with an' Peppal ', the complaint said.
A white substance was spread over Smith's face of the projectile, the complaint said it contained an irritating respiratory tract that Smith caused 'physical need and difficult breathing'
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A white substance was spread over Smith's face of the projectile, the complaint said that an irritating respiratory tract caused Smith “physical need and difficult breathing.”
The two officers were then seen on the Bodycam images that jumped to Smith and placed their body weight on top of him. He stood upright after he was fascinated, and his Miranda rights were read to him, “who indicates a complete arrest of the custodiale.”
Judicial archives then claimed that supervisor Robert Locker, who arrived minutes later, had tried to 'convince' neighboring property owners to force the charges against Smith.
Nevertheless, the owners of real estate refused and Smith was accused of crime instead.
On August 11, 2022, the charges were subsequently rejected by the state of Texas.
According to Cano, the representatives had no basis for arresting Smith or the use of any force against him.
'[The officers] We try to find out, why do we have this guy? “Said Cano. “So they took him to the hospital, then they brought him to prison … There was no legal basis to stop him … [the deputies’] The first reaction is that he is worried about him. '
“But then he comes up with four or five other reasons why he should talk to him and grab him, and none of them is logical.”
“Even the fifth circuit has limitations,” said lawyer Andres Cano. 'This is clearly frivolous and law enforcement does not want to recognize their own videos … Such a defense is not based on reality, the facts, the circumstances or the law'
“So they took him to the hospital, then they brought him to prison … There was no legal basis to stop him … [the deputies’] The first reaction is that he is worried about him. “But then he comes up with four or five other reasons why he should talk to him and grab him, and none of them is logical,” said Cano
In the video Saenz said: “I would just check it until I turned around, he started running.”
Smith, who was on his knees in cuffs at the time, said he ran, “Because you were trying to shoot me, sir.”
“I feared my safety, my life above you,” Smith was heard in the images.
'They deny [that] They pull weapons on him … Even in their own reports they admit, yes, we draw our weapons, “said Cano.
In response to the federal civil rights case against the Smith officers against the officers, they in turn submitted a motion for a brief judgment in which it was claimed that they had qualified immunity against Smith's claims, Law & Crime reported.
However, their motion failed at the level of the court and now they are looking for the 5th American circuit to intervene and destroy the ruling, according to the outlet.
The officers argued that their actions were 'objectively reasonable' because 'Smith walked from Saenz, was invaded by private ownership, behaved irregularly and refused to follow the orders of the officers as soon as Saenz had caught up with him and Gonzalez.'
Cano, however, said Law & Crime that the profession was 'frivolous'.
“He can't look at the images because it still bothers him,” said Cano. 'It has hit [him] In the way he is no longer going to exercise. He has retired quite a bit. He doesn't like to go into the audience more '
“Even the fifth circuit has limitations,” he said. “This is clearly frivolous and law enforcement does not want to recognize their own videos … Such a defense is not based on reality, the facts, the circumstances or the law.”
Yet Smith was left years later by the meeting.
“He can't look at the images because it still bothers him,” said Cano. 'It has hit [him] In the way he is no longer going to exercise. He has retired quite a bit. He doesn't like to go out the audience more. '
“Those are things he has had to deal with,” he went on. '[The officers] I just didn't understand what they did to someone. '
