The 17-year-old boy who was shot by police officer, James Brennand multiple times is reportedly on life support after several of his organs were punctured, according to TMZ.
Brian Powers, the lawyer for Erik Cantu’s family shared with tmz that the teen has gone through multiple surgeries to repair major organs that were injured. Powers explained that the family is extremely thankful for all the support they have been getting so far and asks everyone to continue praying for their son.
US police shooting more brown kids. This time a 17 year old sitting in his car eating a McDonalds minding his own business. Of course racists will try to say he resisted arrest.
The cop has been fired. The boy Erik Cantu is in a critical but stable condition pic.twitter.com/akFpxupOTZ— Louise (@RedMeatRacists) October 8, 2022
As we previously reported, bodycam footage showed the officer opening the drivers door and ordered the teen to get out of the car. Once the door was open you can see the teen eating a sandwich and he began to put the car in reverse, and within seconds the officer fired off multiple shots into the car at point-blank range.
After the teen was shot, he and his passenger were eventually apprehended about a block away. The 17-year-old female passenger was uninjured, but the driver was taken to an area hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.
One of Brennand’s previous supervisors were interviewed and said he just spoke to the officer and said, “Good laughs, just normal human being stuff. Nothing really serious. I never got a bad vibe from (Cantu),” Montalvo said. “He was always a really good guy to me, and he always respected me. Every time I told him to do something, he always did it, and he worked hard.”
The police in this country are out of control. This man was shot in a McDonald’s parking lot while eating a burger because cops thought he was someone else
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— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) October 8, 2022
He wasn’t aware of the body cam footage that was a released to the public so during the interview he was shown the footage while the cameras was rolling and this is how he responded to the footage. “That’s hard to watch. That’s scary. I’m speechless, honestly,” Montalvo said after watching the video. “(Cantu) looks scared. He looks terrified. He doesn’t know what’s going on. He was just in his car eating. That right there, that personally didn’t look right to me.”
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Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales released a statement on the shooting saying, “The Bexar County District Attorney’s Civil Rights Division will fully review the evidence submitted by the San Antonio Police Department into the shooting of Erik Cantu by a now former police officer once the SAPD investigation is complete. The DA’s Office will also review all evidence related to the charges against Erik Cantu once we have received it. The DA’s Office can make no comment on whether charges may be pursued against either individual until all evidence has been reviewed.”
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