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Showing Original Post only (View all)Cop has complete meltdown, starts shooting for no reason what so ever [View all]
Gets really bad at 5:25 when he starts hyperventilating...
Even more fucked up, from the description of the incident, it sounds like they wanted
to charge the woman in the video with causing the "panic attack".
A Sevier County Sheriffs Office deputy opened fire without warning in a mobile home park, suffered an apparent panic attack four minutes later and was forcibly disarmed by a paramedic, body camera footage shows. Deputy Justin Johnson did not mention the panic attack in his report on the December 2016 incident, and he remains on active duty, court records show. Brian Keith Mullinax, 41, and his girlfriend, Tina Carrie Jo Cody, 37, spent 42 days in jail on felony charges, accused of causing what was described in court statements as a "panic attack" and which a detective called "some type of cardiac event." They remain under prosecution on misdemeanor charges, court records show. A spokesman for Sevier County Sheriff Ron Hoss Seals did not return a phone message. Its not clear from court records whether the sheriffs office conducted an internal investigation, ordered psychological testing for Johnson, or required him to undergo counseling or additional training. Cody was unarmed and being held on the ground by Johnson and paramedic Blake Gregg when Johnson fired four shots toward a set of mobile homes, paused and fired three more, the video obtained showed. He ran away from Cody and Gregg toward Sharp Road. Shots fired, he told dispatchers. We need help. Four minutes later, Johnson was kneeling over Cody, who had remained on the ground, with his gun still in his hand when the video showed he began hyperventilating and running backward away from the mobile homes and Cody. Paramedic Michael OConnor ran toward Johnson. Pull it together, OConnor told Johnson. Look at me. Johnson continued to hyperventilate while pointing his gun toward Cody, Gregg and the mobile homes.
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Cop has complete meltdown, starts shooting for no reason what so ever [View all]
Henry Krinkle
Oct 2017
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Another panicky, out-of-control cop. And the EMS guy who initially calmed him down and took his...
brush
Oct 2017
#4
No. I wasn't there, and I certainly wouldn't assume I knew everything required
Hortensis
Oct 2017
#14
Seriously? It's right on the video that he gave the gun back to the out-of-control cop.
brush
Oct 2017
#29
Yes, and starting pay should be high enough to provide a pool of good-quality applicants
Hortensis
Oct 2017
#17
"The couple spent 42 days in jail because they were too poor to post bond and did not get a
WhiskeyGrinder
Oct 2017
#16
An article I read said the guy who scared him (the man they arrested) had a cellphone
tblue37
Oct 2017
#33
How did this cop NOT kill somebody? The paramedic gave the gun back to this SICK MAN......
Old Vet
Oct 2017
#25