Current Events > Cops apologize after approaching innocent man with guns drawn due to bogus call.

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Norman, Oklahoma, police officers are investigating a couple for false reporting after they called 911 and claimed a Black man pulled a gun on them during a road rage incident, although a search by police yielded no weapons.

Theres repercussions for false reporting of a crime, so thats something that were definitely going to take a look at this week to see if theres anything we can do on that side of the call, Norman Police Department Maj. Jamie Shattuck said.

On June 15, Steven Bomar was filling his vehicle with gas when he was approached by Norman police officers who had their guns raised and placed him in handcuffs.

From Bomars perspective, a white couple had just cut him off, given him the middle finger and called him the N-word during a road rage incident. Bomar ignored the incident and stopped at a gas station before officers approached him.

The caller who contacted police after the altercation said Bomar had pulled a gun and told the dispatcher, Its a black guy, and hes in a newer red Chevy Suburban and it has rims on it. The callers vehicle allegedly had a large Back the Blue sticker on it.

Steven Bomar was filling his vehicle with gas when he was approached by Norman police officers who had their guns raised and placed him in handcuffs

Hey, let me see your hands, an officer said as he pointed the gun at Bomar while exiting the police vehicle. Bomar said he was scared and officers told them he was being detained, not arrested, as they asked him to step out of the vehicle and placed him in handcuffs.
They rolled their window down, called me a ____, Bomar said in the video. I didnt say anything to them, didnt do anything to them.

Bomar believed the couple were drug users with visible scabs on their face. He added, I could tell those people just didnt like me. Obviously, they shouted racial slurs at me and they had a Blue Lives Matter sticker on the back of their car. And so, they wanted to try to get me into some trouble, obviously.

Officers put Bomar in the back of a police vehicle. If you guys need to search my truck you can, theres no firearm, I dont have a gun, I dont carry a gun, he said from the back seat.
He told the Black Wall Street Times, I told him that I was fing scared and I didnt know what to do, I just wanted to comply. I was detained and they told me that someone called road rage on me and that I was chasing them with a gun, and, as you can imagine, the cops did not find any gun.

Officers did search Bomars vehicle and didnt find any guns. He was detained for about 15 minutes before officers removed the handcuffs and released him. Officers offered their apologies about what happened and a supervisor also arrived on the scene to extended his apologies.

Norman Police Department Public Information Officer Sarah Jensen told The Black Wall Street Times the way the officers responded is standard.

This is standard response protocol on a report of an individual feloniously pointing a firearm at another individual(s). Based on the information reported to the Norman Communications Center, officers responded in a manner that prioritizes safety for all, she said
Police tried to call the couple back multiple times but were unable to make contact with them.

I am really upset about those people just randomly calling the cops on me saying I have a gun because Im in a nice car and Im Black with dreadlocks, Bomar said.

Chief Kevin Foster said a record of the couples number would be kept and that action would be taken if something happened again, but according to Councilwoman Brandi Studley, she learned after speaking with Foster that the caller gave a different number than the one they called from and provided a fake name.

The Criminal Investigations Division is investigating the incident. In Oklahoma, falsely reporting a crime is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $500 fine or a year in jail.

Full Article: https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/06/24/they-wanted-to-try-to-get-me-in-trouble-black-oklahoma-man-manages-to-remain -calm-as-officers-approach-him-with-guns-drawn-in-response-to-white-couple-making-false-911-call/



Call me captain hyperbolic but calling police and knowningly falsely telling them a man has a gun when he doesn't should be considered attempted murder to me.

Same as SWATing people. You're intentionally risking police shooting them.


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Eh, the cops apologized, so I am not sure if there really is an issue here.

Unless you want to get into the discussion of whether the cops would have done the same thing even if the guy was white.

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Geiki Ganger posted...

Eh, the cops apologized, so I am not sure if there really is an issue here.

Unless you want to get into the discussion of whether the cops would have done the same thing even if the guy was white.

I think the cops would still have drawn their guns on someone they were told is armed, even if he was white.

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Geiki Ganger posted...

Eh, the cops apologized, so I am not sure if there really is an issue here.

Unless you want to get into the discussion of whether the cops would have done the same thing even if the guy was white.

So if they hadn't apologized you feel there would be an issue? Simply creating a risk by calling police under false pretenses shouldn't carry any charges?

Ruvan22 posted...

So if they hadn't apologized you feel there would be an issue? Simply creating a risk by calling police under false pretenses shouldn't carry any charges?

I think they mean that the cops handled it about as best as they could. It absolutely sucks that he had to be in this situation.

The real issue in this case (IMO) is the lack of accountability for some assholes calling in a false report on an innocent man, just for shits and giggles.

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Yeah post 2 is bullshit. It's not a matter of how the cops conducted themselves. They aren't the problem in this story. That fucking subhuman racist assholes who called them and blatantly lied about literally everything they said are the issue. They need to be tracked down, and a fine like that and a year in jail is nowhere near sufficient. They need to be tracked down and hit with every charge they can be hit with including any unrelated but applicable ones.
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The Criminal Investigations Division is investigating the incident. In Oklahoma, falsely reporting a crime is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $500 fine or a year in jail.

Did you all miss this part of the story of something.

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Sounds like the police acted reasonably here, but I wonder what the outcome would have been if had been legally carrying

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eston posted...

I wonder what the outcome would have been if had been legally carrying

https://youtu.be/_LSTO7vpJg4?t=64

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Honestly the cops did the best they were able to, given the info they had. Still a shame though, hope the racist shitters get caught.

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Geiki Ganger posted...

Did you all miss this part of the story of something.

If they can find them. Thats where the accountability lies. They provided false information and will seemingly get away with it.

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Konsidering how things are known to turn out when koncerned police aim guns at a black guy, I konsider this a murder attempt on the kouple's part.

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