[If They Lie Once Can You Believe Anything Else they say?] Video Shows White Nashville Cop Lied About Killing Jacques Clemmons

From [HERE] The Nashville NAACP is demanding answers from the Metro Nashville Police Department following Friday's deadly police shooting. They argue that the police department unfairly targets black people and called Friday's deadly shooting "questionable circumstances."

Jocques Clemmons, 31yr old black man, was shot and killed by Officer Joshua Lippert, a racist suspect cop, last Friday at the Cayce Homes public housing development. 

At 12:55 p.m., on Friday, Feb. 10, Officer Lippert, a white cop, approached Clemmons after a failure to observe a stop sign. Clemmons, driving a gray SUV,  pulled into a parking lot on South Sixth Street in front of the James A. Cayce Homes parking lot. Lippert, driving in an unmarked police car, pulled into the parking lot driveway behind the SUV. Lippert had observed the infraction from a different direction than Clemons was driving. Clemons was unaware that the cop was pulling him over. 

Police said the uniformed patrol officer walked up to Clemmons, who was stepping out of his SUV, to talk to him about the traffic violation. Police initially said Clemmons then body-checked officer Lippert. Specifically, the cops stated, "Clemmons suddenly rushed Lippert and collided into his body." In another released statement police said Clemmons "abruptly charged at Officer Lippert making full body contact." [MORE]

But footage released by police on Tuesday shows Clemmons run toward the officer, before stopping short and running in the opposite direction away from the cop with Lippert in pursuit. In other words, the cops lied about Clemmons being the initial aggressor by claiming he assaulted the cop. [MORE]

The new video was not available to police until Monday due to a broken Metro Development and Housing Agency computer server, police claimed.

Police said Clemmons appeared to be holding something in his waistband during the chase. When the officer caught up with his suspect, they claim the two struggled again, and a fully loaded .357 Magnum dropped onto the concrete.

In contrast, the police also claim that Clemmons had a gun in his hand and refused to drop it when Lippert told him to, police said. Lippert believed he was in danger and opened fire, police said. Clemmons was struck twice in the lower back and once in his left hip, police said.

The video shows Lippert fired on Clemmons when Clemmons had his back turned to the officer and went to run in between two parked cars.

He later died in surgery. The entire incident lasted just over one minute.

Police also said they recovered a gun from Clemmons after he was shot. [MORE] However, Clemmons' family questions whether he even had a gun. Police posted a picture of the gun they say Clemmons was holding on Twitter.

In a statement, police speculated that, since it's illegal to carry a weapon after being convicted of a felony, Clemmons may have tried to run because he was on probation. [MORE]

Monday afternoon, Metro Police Chief Steve Anderson held a press conference to announce new surveillance video from Cayce Homes that shows an unidentified person getting out of the front passenger side door of Clemmons car before the confrontation. Police are looking for that person to ask questions about the incident.

Monday afternoon, the FBI was asked to monitor the investigation into the shooting death of Jocques Clemmons. 

"It's difficult to say to our officers, 'Don't stop someone, don't make a traffic stop for people who violate the law including running stop signs,'" said Metro Police Chief Steve Anderson. [just don't murder them after the traffic stop - write them a fucking ticket like a good public servant should & move on].

Lippert, who has been with the police department five years, is on routine administrative duties while that investigation is pending. Lippert has spent 20 days suspended for various police code violations, including two instances involving physical use of force, according to Metro police records.

In October 2015, Lippert used physical force to pull a black motorist from the vehicle during a traffic stop, even though the driver said he'd be willing to get out in the presence of a supervisor. Lippert was also reprimanded for having the man's car towed without giving him a chance to park the car or turn it over to someone else.

In another case, the officer was reprimanded when he "created the necessity to use force against an intoxicated subject" who was being arrested, according to the disciplinary record. That subject was white. [MORE]

Clemmons' family and the local NAACP are demanding a thorough and transparent investigation from a citizen review board. They are also asking that all police officers get body cameras that will remain on at all times. His family questions why police had to use deadly force instead of tasering Clemmons. They say if he were a white man, he may still be here today.

"I do know that sometimes young white men and women get breaks that a young black man would never see," said his cousin, Joy Kimbrough. "As to what would have happened in this situation, I don't really know because a white man wasn't stopped at Cayce Homes."

The NAACP's criticism comes just a month after the organization Gideon's Army called the police department biased, saying black people are pulled over more often than white people. Click here to read the full report from Gideon's Army.

"That leads to this fear and I think that led directly to what happened to Jocques Clemmons," said Joanie Evans with Gideon's Army.

"What's the penalty for running a stop sign?" asked Ludye Wallace President of the Nashville branch of the NAACP. "What's the penalty for a traffic violation? It's not death," Wallace exclaimed in the press conference with tears in his eyes.

The NAACP asked for a transparent, immediate and expedient investigation led by the Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk. 

"We value the efforts of the police; however, we will not stand by and allow the disproportionate use of police force against African Americans," Wallace said.

Clemmons' mother and extended family attended the press conference at the Nashville NAACP office on Jefferson Street where they mourned and questioned the video and police narrative.

"We should not be going through this at all. We are people. We are part of the human race," said Clemmons' cousin.

"This situation did not happen in a vacuum," said Walter Searcy, an attorney and executive member of the Nashville NAACP and N.O.A.H. "It joins now a long litany of incidences involving community citizens and police. We have a video that is inconclusive. It does not demonstrate in fact that what happened. You have eye witness accounts that apparently conflict with what police version has been thus far," Searcy added, as he called for a complete investigation. 

"These are the initial responses from the police. They are typical. They are standard operating procedure," Searcy said. "It's important for them to get their message out and get it out as quickly as they can and we understand that. We just know that that's not the sole narrative. Nor, are the things they put forth as facts. They have to be tested and proven."

The Clemmons family attorney questions the video and the officer's account of what happened.

"I don't know what happened because they don't have those body cameras. We don't hear the audio. We can't see the video. The close up video," said Joy Smith Kimbrough, who is also a cousin of Clemmons' mother.