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Dannon Bryant
Gender : Male
Age : 43
Race : Black
Date : 10/31/2023
Location : 8800 block of Canyon Rim Way
City : Las Vegas
County : Clark
State : Nevada
Agency : Las Vegas Metro PD
Officer(s) :James Burt
Cause of Death : Vehicle
Event : Killed by police after domestic violence
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
Las Vegas Metro PD were called to a domestic violence situation and found a man who had stabbed a woman. Police claim that he walked toward police and an officer announced on bodycam that he would deliberately hit him with the car and did so, killing him. Dannon Bryant was hit and run over by Officer James Burt who then exited the vehicle and with Bryant on the ground stabbing himself, Officer Burt first tased him.
Officer James Burt, the officer who deliberately killed Bryant by car had also previously killed 35-year-old Edmund Del Valle in 2009 who was jaywalking, was harassed by police, allegedly had a gun in his pocket and was kneeling on the ground before the officer when killed by Officer James Burt. Burt was cleared for this killing.
Officer Burt was arrested in 2016 for domestic battery and strangulation with kidnapping of his girlfriend and was cleared and put back on patrol. The apartment was on fire and a dog screaming for help died in the fire. The woman he had stabbed tried to escape via balcony and fell from a height while being rescued by a neighbor and died also.
SOURCE LINKS :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta04G3PjtFw
Officer Burt and the Edmund Del Valle killing:
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/shooting-man-called-only-option/
