Houston police officers’ bodycam footage allegedly shows them running over a man on the sidewalk with their cop cruiser. The police were reportedly trying to respond to a call for backup.
On Dec. 4, Houston Police Officer Orlando Hernandez and his partner, Anthony Aranda, were driving in their cop car when they swerved onto the sidewalk and hit 62-year-old pedestrian Michael Wayne Jackson. Hernandez – who was driving at the time of the incident – was allegedly trying to avoid other vehicles on the road when he drove on top of the sidewalk. The incident happened at 5:40 p.m.; at the time, Jackson was walking to the barber after working on his truck.
According to the New York Post, Hernandez started driving up to 100 mph in a 40-mph zone after receiving a call for backup from other officers. After hitting Jackson, Hernandez can be heard yelling, “Sh*t! F**k!” The cops hopped out of their car and tended to Jackson, who was injured on the ground. Hernandez calls out to the man seemingly to see if he’s conscious before asking for help from headquarters, the New York Post reports.
“I need HFD here. I just got wrecked out,” the cop said, the news outlet reports. “Scott and Reed. One male patient. Not conscious, he’s not breathing. He has bleeding from the head.”
Jackson, a trained mechanic, ended up passing away after another officer who came to the scene gave him chest compressions. Both officers have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into the matter.
Jackson’s wife of 19 years is calling her husband’s death a “nightmare.”
“It’s like a nightmare. It’s like a nightmare. I just want it to be over,” said Jackson. “[He would] call me every day on his lunch break say, ‘hey sunshine,’ Jackson reminisces. “He’s going to make me laugh every day. I’d say, ‘Boy, you’re something else.’” They share an adopted daughter together. She referred to her husband as her best friend.
Jackson was known as an avid writer and poet.
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