Bodycam Proves Man DID NOT Threaten to Kill Officers

You're under arrest, you got a warrant for terrorist threat, it's alright.

For threatening to kill the officers last night.

Oh, okay. I really did that? You got that on video?

This is Daniel Waltzson. He was arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot police officers while they were at his home the previous night.

You have no warrant?

I don't need a warrant to talk to you.

So, you have no warrant. Get away from my house. Get away from my house or I'll sue your department.

You'll do what?

House.

You'll do what?

Sue our department, is what he just said.

We could ban him also.

A judge signed an arrest warrant after cops told him that Daniel, quote, threatened to shoot the police for being on his property.

Daniel Watson, come to the front door with your hands up. You come out or we come in. for being on his property.

His house was besieged by police officers aiming guns at his home where his two young kids were inside. He was arrested at gunpoint and placed in handcuffs. He spent three days in jail, lost his job, and was later indicted by a grand jury. Yet the entire time there was video footage of this alleged threat that completely exonerated Daniel, proving that he never threatened to shoot

police officers, but rather that he threatened to sue police officers.

Get away from my house or I'll sue your department.

You'll do what?

I'll sue your house.

You'll do what?

Sue our department is what he just said.

I'll sue your department. We could damn court. It's a wrongful arrest.

It's going to be shown.

You're going to have your day in court, sir.

I will.

Now, you may be asking yourself, why would a grand jury do that if they watched this body cam? You also may be asking yourself, why would a prosecutor present this case to a grand jury if he or she watched the body cam? Perhaps nobody watched the body cam, at least not until Daniel gave the body cam footage to a local reporter with Atlanta First News Investigates. So then Atlanta News First sends the body cam footage to the Douglas County District Attorney's office, asking them to review the matter in light of the body cam footage.

Then boom, less than a week later, the felony charge against Daniel Waltzen was voluntarily dismissed by their office.

Your information prompted us to review the matter more closely. The evidence did not support the charge.

Okay, so you reviewed the matter more closely, or you reviewed the matter for the first time, actually? Come on, just admit that nobody ever watched the body cam footage at all, never bothered to watch it, just took what these cops alleged at face value.

But in fact, they had lied. I don't suppose that you have now charged I don't suppose that you have now charged police officers with perjury now have you? I won't hold my breath.