A lawsuit against an Arlington police officer in the 2017 fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man has once again been given the go-ahead to proceed, this time by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The incident began on Feb. 1, 2017, when another officer, Cpl. Elise Bowden, said she saw an object tossed out of Crane’s car that she thought might be a drug pipe, and she pulled Crane over, according to court documents. It turned out that the object was part of a plastic Christmas candy cane that Crane’s 2-year-old daughter threw out the car window. Bowden had called for backup during the traffic stop, and Roper was one of the officers who responded.
Roper has said that Crane “shifted the car in gear while the two struggled, and that it was only after the car ran over Bowden and after Roper warned Crane that he would kill him if Crane did not stop the car that Roper shot Crane twice,” according to the court documents. “Roper claims that the first two shots ‘did not cause Crane to stop the vehicle, he fired two other shots.’”
Bowden, on the dashcam video, asks Crane to step out of the car. Crane says, “I’m not stepping out, because I didn’t do anything wrong.”“I have to take my baby home now,” Crane responds. “I’m not stepping out.” At that point, the officer who had opened the back driver’s side door — and who, based on the police account, was presumably Roper — appears to be partially inside the car.
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