Brown said he feared for their lives, adding that Sammy was “clearly terrified and traumatized by the situation.”
“I went from being afraid for my life to shellshocked to ‘this is not right’ to now slightly angry,” he said. “I felt definitely guilty of breaking into this house. And I had the keys to it.”
The country is in a time of racial reckoning, heightened by a summer of protests against systemic racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd in police custody. Brown said he and Thorne are speaking with a lawyer.
But Wyoming police said a review found that the officers did nothing wrong. Officials said their actions were in “accordance with department policy and training.”
Brown later told NBC News that he believed the department’s response was inappropriate. The police captain “released that statement without enough initial due diligence to substantiate it,” he said. “Basically, she had say to something. She’s going to have to answer some really hard questions here soon.”
After a review of bodycam video, two police officials found “no policy violations and indicated officers acted appropriately based on the information available to them at the time.”
Police said that Public Safety Director Kim Koster has reached out to Brown and that the department is arranging a meeting.
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