A Nevada cop with a history of shooting unarmed people was exposed as a liar when he claimed to have slapped a Black woman because she was going to spit on him.
Henderson Police Sergeant Scott Alward also apparently lied when he claimed the Black woman was holding a pencil, making him fear for his safety , which is why he had to plant his knee on her shoulder as she lay facedown on the ground.
The lies were exposed by KLAS-TV , a Las Vegas news station that received a surveillance video of the incident “from sources that want to remain anonymous but are concerned with what they believe is excessive use of force.”
“We dug deeper,” said investigative reporter Vanessa Williams in the news segment published Monday, explaining to viewers that they first requested Alward’s arrest report, then requested his body camera footage to “confirm his version of the events.”…