A 911 recording released to CBS 2 reveals a white firefighter calling police to report he had drawn a firearm on a black man he believed to be breaking into a vehicle in the Bridgeport neighborhood on Aug. 24.
The man taken down by the firefighter, Jermayne Smith, claims he falsely identified himself as a police officer as he was out running errands on that late-summer night. On the 911 recording, the firefighter is heard saying, “I need police here right now. I got a man down. I got a conceal carry. I caught him breaking into my car.”
Smith told CBS 2’s Roseanne Tellez what was happening while the firefighter was on the phone with 911.