Parents Release Video Showing Cop Execute Unarmed Innocent Son—Cop Charged with Murder

Fired from the Atlanta local department for gunning down an innocent driver, a former cop was indicted on multiple charges including murder, making a falsehood, and violating his oath of office.

Although the ex-cop reported that the driving force was attempting to run him over when he opened fire, investigators determined his claims were false after reviewing dashcam footage and witness statements.

After fighting for years to form the video from that night public, the family of 22-year-old Deravis Caine Rogers has released a replacement video from the night of that fatal shooting, renewing involves action from the town.

As 11 Alive reports, Rogers' parents and their attorneys made the video public during a Tuesday morning press conference on Zoom - which they said they fought hard to get and share.

"It is tough to observe it because you begin to wonder when will it end," said Roger's father, Davis Thomas.

Shortly before midnight on June 22, 2016, Officer James Burns skilled a call from an off-duty cop reporting a suspicious person breaking into cars.

Arriving at the scene in his cruiser, Burns hit his lights and siren immediately after seeing a 2011 Ford Fusion driving towards him.

Burns suddenly exited his vehicle and fired one bullet into the top of Rogers.

According to Burns, Rogers ignored his order to "Stop!" before gunning his engine and attempting to run him down with the sedan.

Blinded by the headlights and fearing for his life, Burns claimed that he killed Rogers in self-defense.

"He clearly made a choice to run me over, you know, and kill me," Burns told investigators.

The new video shows that Rogers likely had no idea he was even a suspect.

Rogers had been driving toward Burns' passenger side and made no plan to harm the officer.

Rogers was actually driving faraway from Burns when the officer shot him through the side of his Fusion.

"What happened was James Burns made assumptions as Mr. Rogers was driving away that he was involved in something that the evidence strongly suggests he wasn't," said Shean Williams, co-council for the family.

An internal affairs investigation found that Burns had no reason to suspect Rogers of criminal activity before using unnecessary and unreasonable force.

After Burns was fired from the department in July, APD Sgt. Warren Pickard admitted that no evidence existed of any cars that were burglarized or stolen that night anywhere near the vicinity.

"The officer simply acted during a way that we cannot support," Sgt. Pickard told 11 Alive News.

Though Burns was indicted - twice - his family has yet to ascertain justice within the sort of a conviction much less an attempted date.

"Rogers parents, Melva Rogers and Deravis Thomas are appreciative that Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms and therefore the city of Atlanta have highlighted the death of Rashard Brooks and the tasing of two HBCU students, but they wonder why the mayor or city has done nothing regarding their son's killing at the hands of APD officer James Burns," family attorneys with the Cochran Firm noted during a statement.

"The city has yet to acknowledge us in any capacity," Davis added.

"No one has ever reached bent us to even apologize to us on behalf of this officer that they hired."

According to 11Alive, the family is now asking to take a seat down with the mayor and have the lawsuit against the town - which is on hold due to the delays with the criminal case, and, now, COVID-19 - settled.

They are also posing for the mayor to determine what they're calling a reconciliation commission to deal with past and unresolved cases of injustice involving APD officers.

The mayor skilled the family's request, noting that her "Thoughts and prayers" are with the Rogers as they wait and hope for justice to happen.

"The incontrovertible fact that this incident occurred in 2016 before I used to be Mayor, yet remains unresolved four years later, only highlights the necessity for urgent action and reform. My thoughts and prayers are with the family of Caine Rogers and each other family awaiting justice."

Notice how Rogers drove round the officer a bit like anyone would do, thinking cops were stopping somebody else.