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Salt Lake City, UT — On August 11, 2014 Dillon Taylor was gunned down in broad daylight by Officer Bron Cruz. The confrontation happened because Cruz confused Taylor with a possible criminal in the area. Taylor, his brother, and his cousin were exiting a 7-Eleven in an area where police were searching for a suspect who had allegedly been waving a gun around. These uninvolved young men allegedly matched the description. When the three men exited the convenience store they were surrounded by officers and ordered to show their hands. Two of the men stopped and complied, Dillon Taylor, listening to music, kept walking. Barely 40 seconds go by from the time Dillon is approached until he is shot by Cruz. The body cam footage was released in September of last year, however, it stopped just after the shots were fired. Apparently the department did not want you to see what happened after as the full video was not released until this week. It shows the disturbing moments before and after this innocent man was gunned down by police. “He couldn't hear them, so he just kept walking. Then … they had guns pointed at his face. That's when he turned off the music,” Taylor’s brother Jerrail Taylor told the SLC Tribune. “I saw them point guns at my brother's face, and I knew what was going to happen.” One officer told Taylor to get on the ground, while another told him to put his hands on his head. “He got confused, he went to pull up his pants to get on the ground, and they shot him,” Jerrail Taylor said. A report by the Daily Kos provides a detailed breakdown of the 7-minute video: Now that the full video has been released, it’s disturbingly clear that nothing about this police shooting was justified. Nothing at all.It seems that after the officer discovered Taylor was unarmed, he pretended to care and provided a nice show for his body cam. However, he never once attempted to simply apply pressure to the gaping hole in Taylor’s chest. WARNING: The video below is graphic and disturbing. In October, the DA ruled this murder “justified.” |