Miami Beach Memorial Day Shooting May 30th 2011

On May 30, 2011 Narces Benoit started videotaping officers firing rounds of bullets into a car driven by Raymond Herisse, who died on the scene. The 4 a.m. police chase occurred on Collins Avenue, as a dozen officers fired their guns repeatedly into Raymond Herisse’s blue Hyundai (Miami Herald).

Police did find a black Berretta 92-F semiautomatic pistol in the car owned by Herisse, who had been an armed robbery suspect.

“Benoit filmed the incident from the sidewalk on the northeast corner of 13th Street and Collins Avenue, close enough to see some officers’ faces and individual muzzle flashes,” as the Miami newspaper reported.

But here’s the interesting part. As Narces Benoit and his girlfriend Ericka Davis were driving away from the scene, a cop pointed a gun at them. They were thrown down on the ground and held at gunpoint, before being hauled to jail.

The police must have noticed that several bystanders were recording the shooting. Benoit filmed the shooting on his mobile phone.

The police officers stomped on Benoit’s phone before sliding it into his pocket. But the officers didn’t know that Benoit had secretly put the SIM card in his mouth before they grabbed the phone and smashed it. Narces Benoit actually kept the memory card in his mouth the entire time the police interviewed him at the station.

He removed the card afterwards. The police demanded the phone and the video, but they never got the memory card.

You can hear Benoit’s comments  on the video. “They done killed this man. If that man ain’t dead, he’s dead now”.