Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett confirmed some pretty wild news on Monday: a man shot and killed by Dallas SWAT last week wasn’t just a random suspect—he was a key member of her own security team.
The man, known to the Congresswoman and her staff as “Mike King,” was actually Diamon Robinson. He had been living under an alias while being wanted for impersonating a police officer. The whole thing came to a head last Wednesday in a parking garage at Children’s Medical Center Dallas.
Bodycam footage released by Dallas Police shows a tense scene where officers tried to get Robinson to surrender peacefully. “It ain’t worth it,” one officer is heard saying. But according to the video, Robinson eventually pointed a gun at the officers, leading to a fatal volley of gunfire…