A Billings, Montana police officer's dash-cam captured this video of fellow officer Grant Morrison sobbing shortly after he fatally shot an unarmed suspect to death back in April.
The sobbing really begins at about the 4:30 mark, and you can hear Morrison say “I thought he was gonna pull a gun on me,” before the other officer says "Maybe he was, maybe he was."
Earlier this week, a coroner's jury ruled the shooting of Richard Ramirez by Morrison during a traffic stop was a noncriminal, justifiable homicide, the Billings Gazette reported.
Morrison testified that he was in fear for his life when he shot Ramirez, who he'd recognized as the suspect in a shooting and robbery the previous night. A video from Morrison's own dash-cam shows Morrison repeatedly ordering everyone in the car to put keep "their fucking hands up" before he fires the fatal shots.
Morrison testified that everyone else in the car complied, except for Ramirez, who kept dropping his left hand to his side and "started jiggling it up and down." The examiner who performed the autopsy testified that Ramirez had a high dose of meth in his system at the time of the shooting.
Ramirez's mother told the Gazette she is working with her lawyer to decide what's next. "That ain't right, the way he died. I'm going to fight it, I'm going to take it as far as I can get it. I'm not going to give up," she told the newspaper.
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