New Video Emerges of Interview with Officer Diaz-Austin and Shooting Death of Teen in Otero County

In a shocking newly released video by EWU Body Cam concerning the death and investigation into the death of Mescalero Apache Teenager Elijah Hadley, Deputy Jacob Diaz-Austin, who is charged with murder, when asked was he fully aware of the Otero County Sheriff's Deadly Force Policy, claimed he was NOT 100% aware of the policy. The complete deadly force policy can be read in detail in the AlamogordoTownNews.org story link here. 

Otero County Deputy Diaz-Austin Claims hecwad not 100% Aware of the Departments Deadly Force Policy

Otero County Deputy Sheriff Jacob Diaz-Austin also claimed that Hadley had a "sinister look" as a part of his defense for the shooting. He claims via a leaked internal Oteto County New Mexico Sheriff's Department investigation interview that "he looked through me staring, he had this really sinister smile..."

Deputy Diaz- Austin claims Elijah Hadley had a "sinister smile" to justify shooting per video released by EWU Body Cam

Deputy Diaz-Austin claims a sinister smile as a threat all the while the officers lapel footage shows a teenager just walking down a dark road and blinded by the patrol car lights, then tossing a soft gun with plastic pellets on the ground as being shot multiple times...

Deputy Diaz-Austin also then went on and admitted that the teenager, Elijah Hadley "he wasn't being overly emotional, wasn't , you know, waving his hands, he wasn't doing anything like that, he was relatively still, and and calm besides just staring at me..."

The video footage and commentary is available via the link below...

https://youtu.be/1kFohhRobSo?si=bHp_q673fUFFdHW-

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