From [HERE] and [HERE] A white Pleasantville police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Danroy Henry, a black college student, said he yelled for the car to stop, but that it kept coming. Officer Aaron Hess said in a deposition that he had to lunge on top of the car to avoid being run over, and that he fired into the car to stop the driver.

White prosecutors deicided not to prosecute Hess after a grand jury cleared him in the October 2010 death of Henry, a Pace University student and football player from Easton, Mass. Henry's family has filed a civil suit against Hess. The deposition was taken earlier in August as part of that suit, and the transcript was released by their attorney on Thursday.

Hess was one of several officers who responded to a bar brawl on Oct. 17, 2010. Henry, 20, and two friends were idling in a car nearby when police told them to move their car. Hess claimed Henry peeled away and struck him with the car, but some witnesses and Henry's family contend Henry was just obeying police instructions to move the car. Hess and Officer Ronald Beckley fired on Henry, the driver. The passenger in the car, Brandon Cox, told authorities that Henry slowed down before he was shot by police. [MORE] According to witness testimony, Henry was handcuffed and placed on the sidewalk, where he lay dying. He was left on the street for 15 minutes without any medical attention. [MORE]

As an insult to injury Hess was honored in April 2011 as Officer of the Year by the mostly white Pleasantville Police Benevolent Association. Officers also objected to the Henry family raising money on behalf of Danroy. [HERE]