Now-fired San Antonio Police Department officer James Brennand has been arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault for shooting 17-year-old Erik Cantu while on duty on October 2. | via TPRNews
This story was updated on October 12, 2:13pm CST
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said charges could be increased to homicide if Cantu, who is currently on life support according to his family, were to die. Ananda Tomas, the executive director of ACT 4 SA and one of the protest’s organizers, said at the protest before charges were officially brought against Brennand that it was community pressure that pushed McManus to say earlier in the day that charges would likely be brought.
From body cam footage released by SAPD after the shooting, former officer Brennand can be seen approaching Cantu’s vehicle in a McDonald’s parking lot on Blanco Road as he tells a dispatcher he recognizes the vehicle as one that fled from him the day before during a traffic stop.
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