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The police chief is already excusing the cop that ran over the victim "Just because the dash cam footage clearly showed the victim doesn't mean the officer saw the victim".
https://www.wdtn.com/top-stories/sp...-identified-family-still-looking-for-answers/
A man who died after being shot and then hit by a the cruiser of Springfield police officer told 911 dispatchers he was lying in the middle of the road as police responded to the shooting, records obtained by News Center 7 show.
Cole remained on the phone with dispatchers as you hear sirens in the background from cruisers approaching the scene.
"They just hit me," Cole said.
"Who hit you?" the dispatcher asked Cole.
"The police," he said.
Cole was flown to Miami Valley Hospital, where he later died from his injuries. The Montgomery County Coroner's Office has not yet said how Cole died.
"This was an accident," Graf said. "It doesn't mean it's okay. It was an accident. This was not an intentional act on the part of the officer. I am sure of that. From what we are initially piecing together, remember this is all under investigation, the lead officer was trying to catch the addresses on the house. Eric was lying in the street as you can see from the videos — and the officer did not see him."
"That camera focuses where it's pointed," the police chief continued. "It's not an indicator of what the officer was seeing."
The family isn't convinced either — because police did not initially mention that an officer ran Cole over that night.
"He said, 'Your son has just been shot,' never once was I told that an officer ran over my son," Cole's mother Regina Wilson told local NBC affiliate WDTN. "Why was I not told at the scene that she ran over my son?"
The police chief is already excusing the cop that ran over the victim "Just because the dash cam footage clearly showed the victim doesn't mean the officer saw the victim".