SAN FRANCISCO — Sgt. Brandon Davis vividly recalled the moment before he
killed Eric Wayne Berry, but it was not the way it really happened.
“I told him to drop his weapon, twice,” the police officer then in Fort
Smith, Ark., said. But after repeated viewings of a video of the
shooting, captured by a minicamera he was wearing, he said, “it turned
out it was nine different times. He kept telling me to drop my weapon.”
When Mr. Berry raised his .45-caliber pistol on the officer and leaned
at an angle that could improve his marksmanship, Sergeant Davis said, he
shot Mr. Berry in the heart.
The shooting, tragedy that it was, was speedily cleared by his superiors
because the entire incident was captured on tape. “It happened at noon
on a Wednesday,” Sergeant Davis said. “I first watched it with the
police psychiatrist on Thursday morning. I got out of there and I was
cleared for work.” He has watched it many times since then, to shed any
lingering doubts about his course of action. More
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