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New filings from the San Diego city attorney defending an SDPD officer who shot an unarmed man in 2015 contain multiple falsehoods. This line, for example: "Was it reasonable for Officer Browder to shoot a man who continued approaching him over commands to stop?" (thread)
The shooting is on video. Nehad appears to do the opposite of continue approaching just before being shot, he appears to backpedal. At *best* it’s far from established fact he was approaching. (Also, worth noting: He’s shot within seconds of the officer arriving.)
More importantly, though, Browder himself said under penalty of perjury he did not ID himself as an officer and doesn’t remember telling Nehad to stop.
But the city attorney just writes it as a established fact that Nehad was approaching and Browder shouted commands. There’s no universe in which either is established, and most likely both are false.
Finally, important to re-up: Browder himself said on record that no one at SDPD talked to him, or reprimanded him in any way for declining to ID himself as an officer before ending this man’s life.
