The indictment marks a rare criminal prosecution of a police officer in the historically conservative North Texas county. It could draw greater attention to a case that was largely overshadowed by another in the same month in which a white Dallas police officerTran shot Terry on Sept. 1 after another officer pulled the Forest Hill resident over on a registration violation.
Lee Merritt, an attorney for Terry's estate, said the indictment was"a huge relief" for his family but also less than they had hoped for."We are certainly happy that there will be a chance for some form of justice in this case," Merritt told The Associated Press."But if anyone else had done this it would have been murder."
Criminally negligent homicide is a felony and a conviction can lead to a sentence of 180 days to two years in state jail. Tran was placed on restricted duty following the shooting. He was put on leave Wednesday until the administrative investigation into the incident is finished in the coming weeks, said Arlington Lt. Christopher Cook.
Tran's attorney, Randall Moore, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Moore has maintained that his client's actions were legal and taken to protect the public.
sprbrighting Good
Execute that evil policeman
WHAT? What is this? This does NOT happen in this country. No, no, no I mean I know cops shoot. They shoot all the time. They never EVER get punished for it.
It's about f*cking time.
Interesting. The police officer in this video was acquitted, and never in any articles did anyone mention anything about his race.
FYI-Arlington isn’t a suburb of Dallas.
They won't convict.
Terrible tweet wording.. the black man has a name
Nowhere in the article does it mention the police officer's race. Funny how that never seems to happen when the officer is white. The article even managed to work-in the shooting from last year where an off-duty WHITE female police officer killed an black man in his apartment.
Had to read it a couple of times, but nice!
👏 there really IS JUSTICE in texas 👏🙆🙌
Not a white cop. Notice how they left out race of cop this time
Maybe if Tasers were the first option and guns the last resort? NRA doesn't get kick back on Tasers I guess!
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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