Nationally known civil rights lawyer Ben Crump has been retained by the teenage woman who was in the front passenger seat of Erik Cantu’s car the night he was shot by a police officer.
after the shooting, opened the driver-side door and demanded that Cantu exit the car. Body camera video footage of the incident shows a shocked Cantu eating a hamburger next to Proulx. Cantu drove his vehicle in reverse for several feet and then sped forward away from the officer and toward the parking lot exit; Brennand fired at least 10 times toward Cantu as the car backed up and drove away.
Police located Cantu nearby with multiple gunshot wounds, while Proulx was reported to be unharmed. Cantu was taken in critical condition to University Hospital, where he remained for several weeks and on a ventilator for much of that time. He was“Emily, while physically unharmed, has suffered the extreme mental trauma of being at her boyfriend’s side when the car they were in was showered with bullets,” Crump said in a news release.
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