DALLAS—"I hope I didn't kill him," Officer Dustin Dillard can be heard saying on body camera footage after he responded to a 911 call in August 2016 from Tony Timpa, who later died after Dillard held him in the prone position facedown for a little over 14 minutes. The comment was met with laughter from other officers on the scene.
Today, at the federal civil rights trial surrounding Timpa's death, Dillard was more assured: "I did not kill Mr. Timpa," he said.
