Bodycam footage shows FOUR-year-old boy fire at police after father arrested at McDonald's
MIDVALE, UTAH – Police have released body camera footage from a February incident at a Utah McDonald's in which a 4-year-old shot at officers. A 12-minute video depicts the events leading up to Sadaat Johnson's arrest as well as what happened after one of his children shot at police while they were in the drive-thru.
Around 1:30 pm on February 21, McDonald's employees called the Unified Police Department to report a man brandishing a gun after receiving the wrong order. After reporting the incident to the police, staff members asked Johnson to pull to the front of the establishment.
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Johnson had a 4-year-old and a 3-year-old in the car at the time. He resisted every request from the officers to exit the vehicle, as seen on camera. After that, police unlocked Johnson's front door and removed him from the vehicle.
When an officer turned around and saw a gun sticking out of the back window while trying to arrest Johnson, he yelled "gun" before a shot was fired.
As the gun went off and struck the upper portion of the McDonald's building, the officer used his hand to sweep the gun away. The officer then yelled at the person inside the car to drop the gun before realizing it was a young child upon closer inspection.
The children can be heard crying as officers ushered them out of the car and away from the scene. According to police, a preliminary investigation revealed that the 27-year-old instructed his child to shoot at officers. But according to court documents obtained by FOX 13, the child shot at officers because "he wanted his daddy back."
Following his arrest, Johnson told police that during their argument over his order, he "blacked out" for 30 seconds. Johnson also denied brandishing the gun in front of the worker, despite surveillance video showing him doing so, court records state. Johnson also admitted to police that his 4-year-old child had previously accessed a firearm.
"To have an adult think it is okay to encourage a [4]-year-old to pull a firearm and shoot at police illustrates how out of hand the campaign against police has gotten," Sheriff Rosie Rivera said in a statement following the incident in February. "This needs to stop and we need to come together as a community to find solutions to the challenges we face in our neighborhoods. Officers are here to protect and serve and we are beyond belief that something like [this] could happen."
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Early in March, Johnson was subsequently charged with child abuse, serious assault, and interfering with an arresting officer, according to FOX 13.