Body camera footage from Dallas police officers show off-duty officers laugh after learning a disabled veteran urinated on himself after he was denied use of the restroom.
Courtesy of the Dallas Police Department
MySA
By Steven Santana
The Dallas pizza place is asking to have off-duty officers removed after body camera footage showed them laughing at a disabled Army veteran that urinated on himself when they denied him use of the restroom. The restaurant, Serious Pizza, said in a statement that it wasn't aware of the severity of the incident until it went before the Dallas Community Oversight
Committee on August 8, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Milkshake Concepts, the parent company of Serious Pizza, told Dallas News in a statement that it has asked to no longer work with the officers and that it was "disappointed by the conduct of the officers involved."
"We have requested that the contracted off-duty officers who were on duty that night not be assigned to our restaurant moving forward, as their actions were not representative of how we treat our guests and the general public," the company’s statement said.
The veteran, Dynell Lane, told the oversight committee that two uniformed, off-duty officers refused to see his medical paperwork after Serious Pizza refused to let him use the restroom around 2:15 a.m. on June 10. Lane has a urine and bowel leak issue, so he called 911 but the officers didn't arrive quick enough and he urinated on himself by the time they arrived.
In the body camera footage, one of the on-duty officers, a woman, asks the other officers, "So you guys made a guy pee himself?" She then puts a fist over her mouth as she laughs.
One of the off-duty officers says "yeah" with a smile. The other off-duty officer then slaps his knee as he laughs out loud after learning Lane called 911.
Texas has Ally's Law, which says people on the premises of an establishment should be allowed access to the restroom if they provide medical paperwork. Lane told the oversight committee that he asked the off-duty officers to let him present his medical paperwork to the manager. The restaurant company told Dallas News that it wasn't presented with the paperwork.
The oversight committee ordered internal affairs to investigate the conduct of the off-duty officers. The Dallas Police Department didn't tell Dallas News if that investigation includes the on-duty officers.