Dallas cop who shot mentally ill man in stomach is fired after surveillance footage shows he lied in police report
Cardan Spencer claimed that he fired at the man because of threatening behavior
Video recording shows the complete opposite with Bobby Bennet not even moving towards the police officers
Bennett, who has schizophrenia, is in intensive care after being wounded
Charges against victim have been dropped pending investigation
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 08:06 EST, 26 October 2013 | UPDATED: 09:09 EST, 26 October 2013
A Dallas police officer involved in the shooting of a mentally ill man, that was caught on camera, has been fired.
Surveillance video shows Cardan Spencer was 20 feet away from paranoid schizophrenic Bobby Bennet when he shot him in the stomach.
The police officer and his partner had maintained their story: that they were forced to shoot after the man threatened their safety by lunging at the pair with a knife.
Officer Spencer has now been fired pending a criminal investigation after a neighbor released surveillance video capturing the incident that showed nothing documented in the police report actually happened.
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