WASHINGTON — Body camera footage was just released from the night a DC Police officer was killed.
Officer Terry Bennett was helping a driver who had broken down on Interstate 695 a few days before Christmas when he was struck by another driver. That driver, Jerrold Coates, told officers that someone cut him off and he did not see Bennett’s cruiser.
Jerrold Coates is charged with second-degree murder while armed in the December crash. Authorities say Coates was speeding and driving impaired when he struck Bennett, who was assisting a driver involved in an earlier traffic accident…