The officers from the fifteenth circuit drug enforcement unit had made two claims from the beginning, that they had shot julian betton after he fired at them first. Tests later showed that julian's gun had never been fired. They also claimed that when they arrived to his apartment, they knocked and announce themselves before entering. Julian betton said he never heard a knock. His next door neighbor, santos garci, who'd watched the whole thing, said he was a hundred % sure the police had not knocked.
“I didn’t do what they said I did. And it was like, I don’t know how to disprove the police. I mean, it’s my word against theirs. I don’t really stand a chance.”
In 2015, the 15th Circuit Drug Enforcement Unit in South Carolina gave a confidential informant $100 to buy marijuana from Julian Betton. And then they broke down his door. Officers David Belue, Chris Dennis, and Frank Waddell shot at Julian an estimated 29 times.
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