Video shows Houston patrol vehicle fatally strike 75-year-old man's car.
shows a Houston police officer's vehicle fatally striking the car of a 75-year-old man whose family members have accused the officer of speeding.
In a video statement accompanying the footage, Houston Assistant Chief Yasar Bashir said the officer was not responding to a call for service and did not have lights or sirens on when he struck the Cadillac sedan driven by Charles Payne. Cabrera, who has been a Houston police officer since 2017, was driving on a road north of downtown Houston around noon when the crash occurred, the Police Department said.that his father had just left church.
Cabrera appears to decline medical treatment in the video, though the department said in a statement that he was also taken to a hospital with minor injuries. He was relieved of duty while authorities review the incident, per standard protocol, police department spokesman Kese Smith said in an interview.