Video shows Aurora police officer pointing gun at doctor's head on doctor's property
07/10/2020 11:49 am PDT
via KDVR:
AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) -- An Aurora doctor is preparing to file a federal lawsuit against the City of Aurora and its police department after an officer pointed a gun at the doctor while the doctor arrived at his property.
Aurora Police body-camera footage captures the tense moments between Dr. P.J. Parmar and Officer Jay Henderson with the Aurora Police Department.
In the footage, Henderson says, “Let me see your f---ing hands. What are you doing?”
Parmar responds, “You're on my property, leave.”
The incident occurred just after 6 p.m. on March 1. Parmar owns the Mango House building and says he had just pulled in to drop off gear from a Boy Scout trip when he spotted a police car in his parking garage.
“I stopped immediately. I beeped at him to get his attention and I knew there was going to be something interesting, so I started filming him,” Parmar said. Parmar says the officer approached his car and pointed a gun directly at his head.
“I was typing a report and he comes rolling in here like he's about to assault me with his car,” the officer told another Aurora officer in the video.
“The U.S. Supreme Court has said pointing a gun at someone is use of force and you have to be in reasonable fear that your life is in jeopardy to use that level of force. All Dr. Parmar did was honk his horn at this cop who is illegally parked in Parmar's building parking lot,” Parmar's attorney, David Lane of Killmer, Lane and Newman LLP, said.
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