Dallas police: man who guarded Rep. Jasmine Crockett accused of impersonating officer, was killed in SWAT standoff

Dallas police said a man who worked as a security guard for Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, and was killed by SWAT officers on Wednesday was accused of impersonating a police officer and other offenses.

Police identified the man as 39-year-old Diamon-Mazairre Robinson and said officers tracked him while investigating an active warrant. Robinson barricaded himself inside a vehicle in the garage of Children’s Medical Center Dallas, police said. Officers deployed tear gas, and police said Robinson exited the vehicle and pointed a gun at officers before SWAT shot him. The gun was not fired and no officers were injured, police said. Dash camera footage of the incident was released Monday.

Dallas police said Robinson was wanted for impersonating a law enforcement officer and had claimed to be one while recruiting for a business that placed off-duty officers in security jobs. Police said he drove a replica undercover car with stolen U.S. government plates, often wore fake police uniforms and portrayed himself as a federal agent. Investigators recovered 11 firearms, including the handgun Robinson was holding during the shooting, which police said was reported stolen. They also said he used the alias “Mike King.”

“The agencies that he reported to work for do not exist,” Dallas Deputy Police Chief William Griffith said Monday. “So dignitaries, basically special dignitary police, that agency does not exist within the federal government. … He was very good at hiding his true identity. He had been living like this for many years,” Griffith said.

Crockett released a statement Monday saying her office was unable to find any violent offenses in Robinson’s “limited criminal history” and that her team followed House protocols when contracting additional security. She said the vendor was approved to provide security and had worked with law enforcement, and she called the case an example of loopholes in vetting systems. “There was never any reason to suspect that he wasn’t who he held himself out to be,” Crockett said, adding that Robinson “worked diligently, coordinated with local law enforcement and maintained positive relationships throughout the community.”

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