"A guy pointed a gun at me!"
Jason Leonor, a 33-year-old Afro-Latin man, reported in a call to the 911 emergency phone, "he's in a car right behind me." The emergency services sent a patrol police, according to The Boston Globe newspaper, but Leonor's possible relief when the agents arrived vanished when she verified, according to the complaint, that one of them was precisely the one who claims that he threatened her with a firearm.
"Was you?"
Leonor asked the agent, identified as Jacob Green, when he approached her dressed in uniform, as recorded in the 911 call
. Why did you pull out a gun?
, he asked the policeman then, according to the aforementioned newspaper.
Leonor reported that she was returning by car from a funeral in April 2021 in Mattapan, a suburb of Boston (Massachussetts), when, overtaking another vehicle that was going very slowly, she realized that there was a man inside taking photos of her.
She assures that this worried her because she wanted to know what she was going to do with those photographs.
The years-long investigation has not given conclusive answers to Jason Leonor, 33, who confronted agent Jacob Green after he allegedly took photos of him from a private car and in civilian clothes on top of his uniform.
The policeman, who also did not identify himself as such, assured, according to an affidavit obtained by the newspaper, that Leonor was driving "unsafely" and that is why he took a photo.
Later, he adds, when the man approached him in a "violent" manner, he feared an "imminent attack."
“I took my gun out of my off-duty holster and held it in my lap,” he explained.
Green, who had been working for the state Department of Traffic Police for 22 years, admitted in his statement that he did not identify himself as a police officer, and assures that he later alerted other officers to stop Leonor (who received a ticket for an alleged undue overtaking , which was dismissed, according to the newspaper).
Green's partner Kevin Davis backed up that version of events, saying he had witnessed it from his off-duty car.
Green has spent the past 14 months on paid administrative leave and will finally resign in September, according to the newspaper.
Davis was fired: "Nothing can be more dangerous for our society than having an officer conspire to cover up what may be criminal activity by another," said the police department. In addition, the agent is being investigated by the Prosecutor's Office, according to the newspaper .
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Leonor assured the newspaper that she has not been able to overcome the trauma caused by what happened: "I am afraid of this world," she assured in an interview.
"I want people to know that this is happening in Boston," he added, "it's not just happening on TV, it's happening on social media. It's happening right where we live."