According to a Texas sheriff, investigators are reviewing a second video of a San Antonio man who was shot and killed by police while appearing to surrender
http://gawker.com/video-shows-te...
In a bystander video released by KSAT on Monday, 41-year-old Gilbert Flores can be seen standing motionless with his arms raised before deputies standing several feet away fire their weapons and he falls to the ground. In that video, however, a utility pole obscures one of Flores’ hands.
“I have seen the [second] video. It appears he has something in his hand,” Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau said at a press conference on Wednesday. “We believe it was a knife.”
Pamerleau told reporters she does not recall whether a knife was recovered from the scene and that her office doesn’t plan to make the second video available until the investigation is concluded. From CNN:
The second video will be examined by the Texas Department of Public Safety’s crime lab, which will “try to enlarge and slow down the sequence” so investigators can get “a better idea of exactly what he had in his hand,” the sheriff said.
Meanwhile, the FBI opened a federal civil rights investigation into the incident “to determine whether a civil rights violation took place as a result of a deputy willfully engaging in the use of excessive or unjustified force,” the agency’s San Antonio office said Wednesday.
“There’s no doubt that what was shown in that video is of grave concern to all of us,” said Pamerleau, “but we also want to get this right.”
When asked if Flores was holding both arms up in the second video, Pamerleau said, “We saw that.”