SAN ANTONIO – Newly released body camera footage shows the sons of former Bexar County Precinct 2 Constable Michelle Barrientes Vela fighting San Antonio police officers at the family’s Northwest Side auto dealership.
The videos, which were released after the criminal charges filed against Michael, Anthony and Carlos Barrientes Vela were resolved in court earlier this year, show tensions flaring before a physical altercation between the one-time constable’s sons and officers at the chaotic scene.
A medical emergency turns volatile
SAPD officers were dispatched at approximately 9:30 p.m. on April 29, 2024, to an auto dealership at 1252 Bandera Road after paramedics responding to a medical emergency requested assistance.
As paramedics treated a woman in a living unit at the back of the dealership, which is operated by Barrientes Vela’s husband, “bystanders that were there started to get violent,” an SAPD incident report shows…