Posted on 04/18/2021 1:52:13 PM PDT by USA Conservative
A newly released body camera video shows officers pleading with a man to drop a knife before fatally shooting him at his DeKalb County condominium.
Matthew Williams, 35, was killed by police Monday after bodycam footage appeared to show him chasing after an officer outside his home with the knife in his hand.
It was an incident where the very premise of the 911 call was flawed, according to the body camera video and information provided by Chief Ramos.
DeKalb Police arrived at a house where a neighbor had reported a prowler.
“What are you doing here? You live here?” police are heard saying to a man inside a house a neighbor claimed was vacant.
Chief Ramos told 11Alive Friday that the man was actually a resident of the house.
“If you don’t live here, man, I’m kindly asking you to leave the property, all right?” an officer tells Williams. As Williams exits down an outside staircase, police said he lunged at an officer with the knife.
An officer fired one shot, but police said Williams fled into the trees surrounding the house. In bodycam video, the officer speculated that she’d shot him in the shoulder.
“Drop the knife, man!” An officer says. “Drop the weapon. Drop the weapon,” says another. Before the incident ends, police are heard ordering him 47 times to drop the weapon.
“We will shoot man, all right? We gave you ample warnings, all right?” says a frustrated officer to Williams.
The video indicates Williams slipped out of view and back into the house. Police returned to the front door. “Please come out boss man. How can I help you?” says a man who identified himself as Sgt. Perry with DeKalb PD.
Another 60 seconds pass, then an officer kicks in the door. But then the door closes from inside.
“I’m begging you. You’re a Black man. I’m a Black man. You don’t have to die today. I don’t want you to die today,” Perry pleads with Williams through the closed door.
Video below:
His family had questioned the police’s account; the lawyer now says this ‘changes the narrative’
Williams’ mother and sisters questioned the police department’s account of events following the fatal shooting and asked investigators to release the bodycam footage so they could see for themselves what happened.
After viewing the video, family attorney Mawuli Davis said it was clear Williams was experiencing a “mental health crisis” during the deadly encounter with police.
Why on earth didn't he calmly explain to them that this was indeed his house, police would have left him alone...
Imagine how many police officers will lose their lives like this?
btt
The lawyer said, ‘This changes the narrative.’
Translation: I guess we have to sue the gun company, instead.
No, more range training to enable the LEO to shoot the knife out of the perps hand. Maybe pedo joe can find some spare change in the re-imagining part of the infrastructure sca..., uh I mean legislation to provide that. Yeah, that’s it.
COMPLYING MEANS NOT DYING. Just sayin’...........
In the video, you hear “do you live here? if you don’t we’re asking you to leave, please” And the guy apparently doesn’t answer and charges them with a knife. 200 IQ move right there!
That was hilarious in “Bronco Billy” when Eastwood shoots the guns out of the bank robbers’ hands, then shoots the guns again while they are flying through the air.
All cops should be black. They’d get no trouble from me.
He was a ‘resident’, not the ‘owner’, which the story wants you to believe. So ‘renter’ suicided-by-cop, and all the upstream story behind that isn’t hard to guess.
Yep, the lawyer immediately asked himself "OK, who else has deep pockets besides the PD? Maybe I can still stick it to the PD and City because they didn't call a mental health counselor."
Going for the gun company is a good idea.
Training. We need training.
A Darwin laurate. Confronting a man with a gun with a knife is not wise.
Looks like the family did not like losing its big payday to a bodycam
Yep
“All cops should be black. They’d get no trouble from me.”
I have no issue with that notion. Actually more black offenders are shot by minority cops than white cops. They draw a bye and the offender’s family rarely gets a big payday, if any payday, at all. And riots are prevented. But if it’s a white cop doing the shooting, the family hits the jackpot for their dead thug and looters are out in full force
The media will clean up the narrative a bit and delete the fact that the cop was black.
Where are the unarmed social workers when you need them?
Not very bright at all. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Some Pigs Are More Equal Than Others
I guess a “Beer Summit” is out?
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