Thug Cop Shoots Mentally Ill Man: Lies in Report About the Incident

Dallas Police officer Cardan Spencer opened fired on Bobby Gerald Bennett, 52, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. According to reports, Bennett, after arguing with his mother went out in the street and began rolling around in an office chair.

Their neighbor, Maurice Bunch, reportedly told Bennett’s mother, Joyce Jackson, not to call the police, but Jackson had already made the call.

“They said they would send special-trained officers out,” Jackson said, according to a Dallas Morning News report.

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“They were coming at him and he just scooted his chair back. He stood up. At that point, they drew their weapons and said, ‘Freeze.’ They may have said ‘Drop the knife.’”

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An arrest affidavit listed Officer Spencer as the victim and claimed he and his partner were responding to a “disturbance call about a man carrying a knife…” It also says Bennett allegedly told them, “You all are gonna need more officers out here,” and claims he took “several steps toward them with the knife raised in an aggressive manner.”

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A surveillance camera mounted on a neighbors house captured the incident:

Bennett’s mother, Joyce Jackson, was told after her son was shot that she was not allowed to see her son in the hospital. “They said, ‘You don’t need to be here. Your son is under arrest for trying to hurt police officers,’” she said, according to Dallas News. “I said, ‘What would you do if it was your son?’” She was eventually allowed to peek in the hospital room window.

Officer Cardan Spencer has been placed on indefinite administrative leave pending an investigation.