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Another day, another aggressive arrest of a Black man turned deadly.
Last Thursday night, 30-year-old Kyle Dail was shot and killed by a Dallas, Texas, police officer while officers attempted to arrest him on suspicion of drug dealing at an LBJ Food Mart, according to WFAA 8. The Dallas Police Department said Dail had evaded arrest earlier that night but he returned to the food mart later on and that’s when officers approached and tackled him in the back of the store.
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From WFAA:
As shown in the portions of body camera video and surveillance video that police have released, police say they tackled Dail because they had been chasing him earlier that night, feared he had a gun, and didn’t want to give him a chance to run again. But 27 seconds into the struggle, in video that police spotlighted, police say Dail raises a handgun near an officer’s face and then throws the gun away.
But one officer had already made the decision to open fire.
So, basically, a cop waited until an armed Black man was unarmed before he shot and killed him.
“He actively disarmed himself. And they shot him,” civil rights attorney Justin Moore, who is representing Dail’s family, said. “That’s not justified. That’s criminal.”
Also, let’s be real: This arrest never had any chance of being peaceful after cops decided to tackle Dail without proper warning while his back was turned to them inside the store. This wasn’t even a failure to de-escalate—it was an intentional escalation from the very start.
Anyway, on Tuesday, Dail’s family joined Dallas activist Dominique Alexander in demanding that the DPD release all of the unedited videos, “including any dashcam and helicopter videos to prove the chase happened, WFAA reported. They also demanded the officer who killed Dail be fired and charged with Dail’s death.
“You can’t just take a child of God like that away from us like that with no reasoning,” Dail’s brother, Sarandon Steward, said. “At the end of the day, we should still have him here with us today, but we don’t.”
Source: Justice For Kyle Dail: Family Demands Dallas PD Release Unedited Video Of Black Man Killed By Police
