Officer on Trial: Accident While on Phone

After Omaha (Neb.) police officer Brian McKenzie was dispatched by radio to a domestic violence incident, he telephoned the comm center and spoke to a dispatcher to obtain directions to the incident. But while on the phone, his patrol car struck and killed a pedestrian at an unmarked intersection. Now, almost four years later, the lawsuit filed by the victim’s family has begun with McKenzie on the stand recalling his actions that 3 a.m. Read more about the incident and the words that were recorded by the logging recorder here.