The Mobile Police Department has released transcripts of the 911 call that prompted the police response that led to Jawan Dallas being tased to death this month.
Dallas, 36, was stunned with a Taser twice on the night of July 2 by a Mobile police officer after cops arrived at Plantation Mobile Home Park for a call about a suspected burglary. Dallas was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital after he experienced a “medical emergency” after being hit twice with a stun gun.
The transcripts were released a day after the family and attorneys for Dallas demanded at a press conference in downtown Mobile that police release the bodycam footage from the fatal encounter.
Caller: “I’ve got uh, somebody trying to get in the trailer, breaking in on us. Me and my girlfriend.”
911: “Somebody trying to break into your trailer?”
Caller: “Yes, me and my girlfriend.”
911: “Do you know who this person is or is it a stranger?”
Caller: “He’s a homeless guy that hangs around over here at the trailer park. He don’t need to be hanging around in my yard— *Call cuts out*– my dogs alerting and then he’s going to act all crazy and s**t walking down the road. I tell him just come on back god****it. They’re not running over me in here.”
Dallas’ family has retained civil rights attorneys Harry Daniels, Ben Crump, Lee Merritt, and John Buris.
“This is evident in the transcripts when the caller is asked what part of the house the suspect is trying to break into, he responds, ‘he was coming in through the yard, over the fence. And the dogs alerted us.’ What’s more, during that call, he reported directly to Mobile police that he only had someone ‘in the yard,” Daniels said in a statement sent to Atlanta Black Star.
He also pointed out in the statement that officers were responding to a misdemeanor.
“To be clear, Alabama State Law set the maximum penalty of Misdemeanor Criminal Trespass in the Third…
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