{"id":287665,"date":"2016-12-29T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/texas-officer-shoots-black-man-as-he-walks-away-posing-no-threat\/"},"modified":"2016-12-29T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T08:00:55","slug":"texas-officer-shoots-black-man-as-he-walks-away-posing-no-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/texas-officer-shoots-black-man-as-he-walks-away-posing-no-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas officer shoots black man as he &#039;walks away posing no threat&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A newly released video showing a white police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, shooting a black man in the back has sparked anger amid ongoing police violence against African Americans.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The police dashcam video appears to show the Fort Worth\u00a0policeman shooting 33-year-old David Collie as he \u201cwalks away posing no threat\u201d to the officer. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for the African American man, Nate Washington, released a copy of the video showing the July encounter with the Fort Worth officer and a Tarrant County sheriff\u2019s deputy.<\/p>\n<p>Both policemen were off duty at the time and jointly working on a security detail at an apartment complex, Washington said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney said the shooting left Collie paralyzed.<\/p>\n<p>The officer claimed Collie threatened him with a box cutter. But, the lawyer rejected the police statement, saying he was shot in the back and posed no threat.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the footage comes on the heels of another video recording which shows a white&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/29\/503933\/US-officer-shoots-black-man-in-back-video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly released video showing a white police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, shooting a black man in the back has sparked anger amid ongoing police violence against African Americans.\u00a0 The police dashcam video appears to show the Fort Worth\u00a0policeman shooting 33-year-old David Collie as he \u201cwalks away posing no threat\u201d to the officer. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}