The Houston Sheriff’s department released the body camera footage from an incident last weekend where an officer restrained a black man and shot him at close range in the neck. The officer was responding to an alleged shoplifting and assault 911 call at a Dollar General store.

The officer, Sergeant Garrett Hardin of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, was engaged in a chase on foot with the victim, Roderick Brooks, on July 8. The video shows that he wrestled Brooks to the ground and shot the 47-year-old man. 

The Brooks family has retained an attorney and are saying the shooting was police brutality and misuse of force. Demetria Brooks-Glaze, sister of the victim, said the family was told by witnesses that her brother was hit several times before the shooting and those images were not seen on the camera footage released by the sheriff’s department.

“The world needs to see what they are doing. In this case, they are not showing everything,” she said, calling the shooting a “racist act.”

“What gives you the right to take someone’s life by shooting them in the back of the head and neck?” Brooks-Glaze added.

Security and law enforcement video from the Dollar General location shows Brooks trying to leave without paying for detergent products, and an employee of the store confronting him. The Sheriff’s office received a call from a woman who reported the alleged robbery.

“A customer is running out of the store and he hit me on the way out,” the woman said during the 911 call, a recording of which has been released by the police. “He pushed my arm out of the way,” she told the dispatcher.

A call was received by 911 dispatchers for the same incident.

Police video footage shows Deputy Hardin approaching Brooks at a gas station. He chases Brooks on foot and threatens to Tase him. He warns Brooks to get on the ground.  Brooks is Tased and falls to the ground, at which point there is a pause on the video. 

“Why did you Tase me?” Brooks asks Hardin. “Please get off me, man.”

There is a struggle between the two men, and Brooks grabs the Taser that is now on the ground next to him, at which point Hardin threatens to shoot Brooks. 

The footage shows that Brooks dropped the Taser when Hardin reached for his weapon. At that point, Hardin shot Brooks at the base of his head. 

“What we saw on raw footage shows the officer was fully out of control and failed to follow policy,” the Brooks family attorney, Justin Moore said.

Hardin is on paid administrative leave while the department investigates the shooting.