SAN ANTONIO – Tx \u2014 A home security camera capturing a San Antonio police officer pointing a gun at a man, forcing him out of his home, and placing him in handcuffs in front of his young daughter, but it turns out the police handcuffed the wrong man.<\/p>\n
The incident happened on Saturday on Avondale Ave. Keir Simpson says police were dispatched to investigate a call about a man who burglarized a home nearby and mistakenly got him.<\/p>\n
The video shows Simpson on the ground, yelling out to his daughter as an officer handcuffs him.<\/p>\n
Once he was handcuffed, Simpson took a cell phone video of him asking an officer why they thought he was a suspect. The officer responded saying they were looking for a black man wearing a black shirt. Simpson was wearing a red shirt at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n
The officer then told Simpson that since he was inside his home he could\u2019ve changed his shirt.<\/p>\n
“i didn\u2019t get an apology from any of the cops,” Simpson said. “All four of the cops were belittling me, making fun of me, making a joke of it as if it was funny, telling me I’m intoxicated. “The whole experience was very humbling and unwarranted.”<\/p>\n
Simpson is now planning to file a lawsuit against the San Antonio Police Department.<\/p>\n
We showed the video to SAPD and asked if the officers followed department policy.<\/p>\n
SAPD told us they are working on a response. So far, we have not heard back from SAPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Tx \u2014 A home security camera capturing a San Antonio police officer pointing a gun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-444820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}