Political Crazyness

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DALLAS - News 8 (WFAA) has obtained exclusive video that appears to show a Dallas Police officer may have lied about being assaulted by a driver.

Officer Eric Watts said he spotted a teenager drag racing last April.

So, he followed the driver, without his lights and sirens, going more than 60 miles per hour.

At one point he drove down the wrong side of the road to catch up with the driver and then activated his emergency equipment.

He told supervisors the driver, “smiled and burned off.”

The dash camera video showed officer Watts got out of his car, draw his weapon and attempt to stop the driver.

That is when he said in a police report that the driver, “… drove over my right foot, causing pain and struck me in the midsection along my gun belt with his driver’s side mirror.”

Later on in the tape you hear him joke about it with other officers. “Well he got my foot (chuckles).”

The suspect eventually stopped on his own. Watts arrested him for aggravated assault of a police officer and evading arrest.

When supervisors looked at the tape, it clearly showed Officer Watt’s was not hit because the car appeared to be too far away to have touched the officer.

Internal affairs investigators said Watts lied and he could be fired because of it.

A grand jury is also looking at charges of official oppression.

The suspect was charged with evading arrest, but the aggravated assault charge was dropped.