Part 3: CPD release stoplight cam from man who was rushing wife to the hospital [Video]
Jesse Wright was arrested . The charges later dropped . After rushing his wife to the hospital last week. Wright originally told Channel 3 he treated the red lights like stop signs. But the video released by the city shows otherwise.
Today the Chattanooga Police Chief Mark Rawlston re-affirmed the decision to drop all charges against Jesse Wright, but says the video justifies the pursuit. "That 12 seconds of video showed me that officer Daves was justified initiating traffic stop procedure."
This video is the only visual evidence of that night,the rest is the officer's word against Wright's.
You can see Jesse Wright run a red light on McCallie Avenue driving towards Erlanger. As wright passes Officer James Daves hit the lights and followed.
We showed this video to the Wright family's attorney. He watched it several times before making this statement, "it doesn't really show anything, we don't see behind the stopping line on his side of the road. So we don't see when he stops, we merely see a car proceed through traffic."
Scott Maucere also said this video can be interpreted in a number of ways, and it's not clear that the light was even red.
Quote from the article:
Chief Rawlston also says what happened after that is all part of the internal affairs investigation.
Seems like a no brainer. As the attorney mentions, you can’t see the light color, nor see if Wright slowed down as he said he did, although the car did roll up slowly. Personally, I would like to see the hospital camera of the officer blocking their entrance. Can't find that video?
Amazingly, they need to discuss changing protocol. How about explaining to your officers how to be decent human beings? Is there a video for that? Protect AND serve gentleman. Protect and serve.
Perhaps they could read this letter and see how this could have turned out:
http://www.pedaltothemetal.com/index.php/news_story/good_cop_a_letter_to_the_undercover_cop_that_followed_me_on_sunday.html
Source: Part 3: CPD release stoplight cam from man who was rushing wife to the hospital [Video]
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