Cop Fired After Shooting Teen Eating In Mcdonald's Parking Lot

Wtf. Was the cop tested for drugs and alcohol?

What? I have Wendy's stock.

Don't leave your house anymore. Between the street criminals, random street crime and trigger happy cops...ain't worth it.

He should have never been a cop.

At the end of the video, it said the cop was fired. I hope so....but more charges need to be filed.

Fired and charged.

Taxpayers will be footing the kids medical expenses and huge lawsuit.

Was the car stolen or not? And the officer says get out of the car, get out of the car, don’t try to escape. Cops react, only.

I agree, R7

Brennand had responded to an unrelated disturbance at the fast-food restaurant when he saw the Cantu inside the car, which had evaded him a day earlier, Campos said.

I’m surprised the kid lived to be honest.

Jesus, R5! It says he was fired in the fucking OP! You have taken stupidity to a new high on this site.

No more fast food for Erik Cantu, soon he'll be eating at four or five star restaurants, living in a huge house complete with professional style kitchen and a cook. All made possible by the generous tax dollars of San Antonio ratepayers after young Mr. Cantu gets lawyered up and takes legal action.

Disagree R7 if someone opened my door with a gun pointed at me yelling get out, I would have done the same thing. Never identified themselves as police officer, and never waited for backup for all the poor kids knew they were being carjacked. His immediate response was to use deadly force rather than chase him in his vehicle. It was attempted murder and he should be charged with second-degree attempted murder.

As per the Daily Mail has better write of of story than most American news media outlets.

Former LE officer James Brennand is rather attractive.

R12..You should be a cop. You're IQ fits the job...going from 0 to 100 in stupid reactions.

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Kid was mid chew eating a hamburger when he was shot. Wtf.

This kid is evaded him the other day.

[quote]You're IQ fits the job...

Okiedokie.

Bad cop but kid was an idiot. Only fat whores eat McDonald’s. Also if anyone points a gun in your face, give them the car.

Is the rest of the burger 🍔 ok?

Lol R20...Okie dokie...I'll "oh dear" myself...

"This kid is evaded him the other day."

So WTF does that mean? Are we back in days of Reconstruction South or whatever when just because someone ticked off LE next time an officer comes upon said person it's open season to kill?

Second of all only reason why Erik Cantu's vehicle was tagged by LE previous day was because license plate did not match car. Hardly a reason to approach the ride without back-up and gun blazing.

"“As the officer attempted to gather information from witnesses, he noticed a vehicle that had evaded him the day before as the officer attempted a stop because the registered license plate did not match the actual vehicle,” she said."

R15, Daily Fail is a joke

R13, he wouldn't have to sue if a cop didn't shoot him for no reason. Of course you think the "taxpayers" are the victims. You conservatives weren't worried about the taxpayers footing the bill for all those bullshit election audits

Don't they train the police any more?

That car was stolen, I guarantee it.

It’s a criminal’s paradise. Maybe the kid will move to West Hollywood if he gets millions. Hopefully he does.

It doesn't say in the article what the cop was looking for.

Former LE wasn't "looking" for anything.

Day or whatever before he spied what he believed was same motor vehicle, and upon running a check license plate and car did not match. Based upon that next time rookie cop saw same vehicle he sprung into action.

There needs to be a better screening of applicants to join the police. Maybe a series of tests, intellectually and mentally. It seems they take anyone...maybe out of desperation. I don't think too many people want that job. Their training needs to be much more intensive in judging situations and how to react.

Huh 35???

The kid is Mexican I’m sure.

Criminals rule today.

What was the cop looking for. The kid evaded cops earlier. Why?

It takes longer to become a hairdresser than it does to become a cop.

The car was supposedly the same car that evaded him the day before you know because there can be only one car like that. The cop failed to identify himself, had his gun drawn, and used lethal force when he didn't have to. The police leaders there should do a full review of all new police persons. The man should also be arrested for attempted second-degree murder and be in jail. Get a cop to say that though. That is the problem with the police. They protect their own even when they are fucking monsters.

When I first read the headline I thought, "Rogue cop shoots teen in cold blood". Of course the real story is much more complicated. Teen tried to run over cop.

If they keep refusing to support cops, no one is going to want to be one. I wouldn't. You have to be a marksman, wrestler, marriage counselor, Social Worker... no way.

R36 The pay in some places is really bad plus the training is terrible. In a small town not far from where I live, training is 45 days and the starting pay is $26K.

"If they keep refusing to support cops, no one is going to want to be one. I wouldn't."

People won't support cops if they keep shooting unarmed people.

And I bet you supported the Jan. 6th rioters who beat the shit out of cops

Cops are very necessary and I think most people do want to support them. Doing shit like this though is disturbing and just makes the public question and mistrust them. There's so many failures in their requirements and hiring process and especially psychological testing. People need to be able to trust and have faith in them. My Brother was a Cop, and he told me years ago, there were too many failures within. Just awful, that he shot that kid, when he didn't have too. Disgusting.

Fuck off R45, nobody is saying they supported the Jan 6th rioters. People have a right not to get fucking shot, beat up, or set up in some way, when they walk out of their house.🖕

So the cop was fired. I now hope he goes to jail for a long time.

I was raised by a cop.

People become cops for all the wrong reasons and it’s usually driven by insecurity.

The cops working the streets are usually idiots. The dumbest stay on patrol, the smart ones pass exams and move on to higher positions.

There’s tons of exams cops have to take to get promoted and a lot of them fail. Being a patrol officer is the bottom of the barrel.

Good / smart cops move onto state police or become detectives, homicide, Narcs, etc. The shitty cops keep working the streets.

And what you think bottom of the barrel jobs are, are actually not. The cop you see directing traffic at a construction site could be a homicide detective working overtime.

The good / intelligent cops are the ones who go after white collar crime and the dumb ones go after blue collar / poverty crime.

James Brennand, 25, was charged in the Oct. 2 shooting of Erik Cantu, 17, according to a police statement. He turned himself in to police Tuesday night and remained in custody, said Police Chief William McManus.

Cantu is unconscious and on life support, his family said Tuesday.

“There is no improvement in his condition,” the family said in a statement delivered by their lawyer, Brian Powers. “The last two days have been difficult, and we expect more difficulty ahead, but we remain hopeful.”

Powers said it’s “an incredibly difficult time for them.”

A rookie officer, Brennand reported that the vehicle in which Cantu was sitting had evaded him the night before during an attempted traffic stop. Brennand said he suspected the vehicle was stolen.

I have never read of a cop shooting an unarmed citizen suspected of rape or murder.

[quote] Rookie Texas cop, 25, fired for shooting cheeseburger-eating teen

OH, FUCK YOU, OFFICER! You broked my cheeseburger!

Train them not to kill people and not to shoot first and ask questions later.

The cop has been charged with 2 counts of aggravated assault. It’s been 9 days since the teen was shot and he is still listed as critical but stable. He is unconscious, most likely in a medically-induced coma, and has a life-support machine breathing for him.

Still unknown is if, or if not, the car was the one which the cop called about days prior. That attempted traffic stop was because the plate didn’t match the make/model. Personally I doubt very much this was even the same vehicle as what are the chances the cop runs into it again in San Antonio?

This wasn’t a traffic stop. The cop didn’t even wait for dispatch to respond before he yanked open the door. Of course the kid thought he was being carjacked and robbed. Cop fired 5 shots as the car reversed, then 5 more shots as Erik pulled forward. The female passenger and bystanders were lucky they were not hit.

The ex-cop is hot, I strongly feel that he is certainly not guilty. The kid was looking for trouble himself.

I agree R56.

[quote] The kid was looking for trouble himself.

He was committing the ultimate crime in the eyes of DataLoungers: eating fast food! Serves him right. Doesn't he know that you can make delicious cheeseburgers at home?

He evaded the cop - twice.

There is zero proof this kid evaded anyone, that this car is the one the cop thinks he tried to pull over the day before etc. There is at least one person posting straight lies in this thread to imply that this kid somehow had it coming. You know we can see the video, right?

R59 Dude, the cop is fired and charged. The cop was in the wrong.

R60 These people are so sick at this point. They’ve been defending cops so long they can’t tell right from wrong anymore.

Killology training is the reason these extrajudicial shootings keep happening and will keep happening.

R61, it's the verdict of the DL court of skewed justice. Learn to live with it.

And the kid is ugly, therefore, he's a menace to society.

The cops are the ones saying he’s in stable condition when he’s actually on life support. Have not heard anything more on whether it was the same car, not that it matters. The penalty for switching license plates is not death. Charging the victim with aggravated assault just because the car door the dumb cop yanked open without warning hit the cop as the kid backed up in a panic is insulting. I can’t believe no one else was hit when the cop fired wildly at the fleeing car.

Poor kid. There are good cops and bad cops. You just never know what you're gonna get.

It doesn't matter if he was a teen or an adult teen or he was driving a stolen car or eating a Happy Meal... When he backed-up and knocked the cop down with his door, he was now using a weapon: his vehicle. And only he knows what he was planning to do with it next. Cop was defending himself. He's no longer employed because they didn't want riots.

R67 Nonsense.

Y’know, if the cop hadn’t barged in and opened the door, it wouldn’t have hit him when the kid backed out, thinking he was being carjacked.

Thank God that kid wasn't black.

In and Out, Wendy's or Shake Shack would have been acceptable. The kid got what he McDeserved.

Why couldn't this happen to tRump when he's eating in the McDonald's parking lot?

Dumb kid. Dumber cop.

1) Did the cop follow through on the incident he was supposed to be at the scene for?

2) Did he bother to run the plates THIS day, or did he just forge ahead?

^ I can hear him reading the plate to dispatch, but did he wait for an answer? The sound cut out.

The kid looked right at him and couldn’t tell he was a cop? Lights flashing behind him?

Well the kid's either going to die or be disabled for life, r76, so he's going to be punished for being "dumb" just like you want.

Cop wasn’t knocked down by door either.

Having to deal with an ugly Latino teen boy would scare the shit out of me, maybe dealing with ugly kids, in general, would too.

The kid was preoccupied by his meal, probably didn't even notice a cop car in the parking lot until the door of his car was yanked open.

The kid was with a group of friends..Was the car radio on?

The kid did nothing wrong. The cop attempted to murder him. These facts aren't in dispute for normal people who don't have their faces permanently lodged in cops' buttholes.

You don't really need to deep throat the boot, coplovers.

The cop approached him from behind. Anyone can buy a fake badge, uniform and flashing police light on Amazon. That kid was caught off guard and had no reason to suspect he was subject to a cop coming up from behind him with his gun drawn.

It's amazing what some people will try to defend and justify.

It was dark, there was a street light behind the cop. Probably his face, the front of him, was in shadow so the kid only saw a shape with a gun screaming at him.

If there was stolen, we probably will never know, and I side with the cop that it was.

*this car

If the car was stolen, the police would’ve announced it immediately.

No, they won’t. They don’t want any grief or protests, that’s why he was fired instantly. We don’t live in normal times anymore. It’s a criminal’s paradise.

maybe things are different where you are from r87 but it is not illegal to eat a meal in your car.

It was normal times for cops to shoot teenagers in their car while eating a burger and get away with it? And now it's not normal times because if a cop does that, they get fired? What in the fuck is even happening on this thread

From Daily mail: "The former police officer has one child with his wife, Danielle Arnold, Arnold is also a dog handler with the US Army"

This sentence isn't grammatically correct, right?

I didn’t realize it was illegal to eat in a McDoonald’s parking lot. Is that true of all fast food joints?

R79 What a moron you are.

Cop has lower Sanpaku eyes. Cursed with bad luck.

There is a procedure for picking up a suspected car thief. It doesn't include yanking the car door open and firing on the occupants of the car.

George Floyd was accused of passing a bad twenty dollar bill.

The procedure to detain a suspect accused of passing counterfeit bills doesn't include hopping up and down on the suspects neck until he dies in the street in front of a traumatized community.

You got to love DailyMail for publishing photos

OF COURSE the trigger happy cop is ex-military, OF FUCKING COURSE. Fucking psychos.

Fired? And charged for attempted murder I hope.

Both r97 and the kid is still hospitalized.

Guess who is paying for the kids hospital stay.

The teenage kid "evaded" him earlier - lol. How terrible of a cop is he that he could know for certain that this was the same car, but let a 16 year old kid "evade" him.

The kid is driving what, a Kia or something.

What a ridiculous excuse.

Is anyone here in law enforcement? I truly want to know what in the hell is wrong with these cops? Are they roided out? Mentally ill? We see this over and over and over. They shoot first, barge in acting crazy, lose control, park the car on the train tracks and get a suspect mangled half to death ,etc.

What on earth is going on with these guys?

R87, he was only fired immediately because he was new to the job and still on probation. Otherwise he’d be on paid leave and eventually reinstated.

R100, why do you think anyone in law enforcement would answer your questions honestly? Cops are notoriously corrupt and always cover for each other.

Wow^.

R92 is ugly and she doesn't like people calling her out.

The cop is not guilty. If the kid thought criminals would approach him and spook him out so easily in the parking lot, why would he choose to eat there? If he had to be scared of people walking up to his car. This doesn't make any sense.

The cop has been terminated and is facing criminal charges.

What happens with MAGA is normal behavior is pathologized and aberrant behavior is normalized.

Sitting in the car, stuffing your face with food is normal in American culture, American fat asses invented drive thrus it certainly isn't illegal or even suspicious.

A trained law enforcement officer yanking a car door open and firing a gun on the occupants is fucking cruel and unprofessional.

R104 You truly are a moron. Let me guess, a republican

The former cop has been indicted.

What say you, DL, is he good looking enough to be absolved of his crimes?

R67 Well now the cop is indicted in jail.

The scary part is there’s cops who think like you. Clearly.

Erik Cantu, the 17-year-old boy who was shot by a San Antonio police officer in the parking lot of a McDonald's, is back home after spending nearly two painstaking months in the hospital, his family announced.

Your tax dollars paid for the 2 month hospital stay, the physical therapy the kid needs and will pay for the settlement this family is due to receive. it is also paying for the cops stay in prison.

Its fair to say taxpayers aren't receiving a good return on our investment. Criminals run wild and innocent civilians are being gunned down by cops and criminals alike.

Since when are taxes an investment?

Taxes are an investment for our society and we deserve a better return.

No, we are paying for services…schools, roads, lights to stay on, etc.

This kid's grandkids will have their college paid for.

[quote] As per the Daily Mail has better write of of story than most American news media outlets.

How could anyone contradict such an eloquent statement?

I’m glad the kid made it this far although being well enough to leave the hospital doesn’t mean he doesn’t have long term health repercussions. The look of panic on his face when the cop yanked his door open. This just has to stop.