Posted on 04/27/2021 3:06:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Shocking footage shows officer Christopher Royer asking him to "stop," as the man can be seen charging towards him, during a traffic stop in Nashville, Tennessee.
Officer Royer was on routine patrol in the city's Bordeaux neighborhood on Saturday when he stopped the white Mercedes.
According to Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, the driver remained cooperative but the passenger got out of the car with two butcher knives.
In the video, the armed man can be seen attempting to get inside the police officer's car, while officer Royer can be heard urging him to drop his weapon.
"What are you doing? Drop the knife!" he yelled.
The driver can also be heard yelling "What are you doing? Stop!"
Moments later the man can be seen charging towards the cop who shouts "I don't want to shoot you!"
As the passenger approaches him officer Royer, shoots the man three times before he collapsed in the street.
Authorities said he died after he was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The man who was later identified as Marvin Vega, 33, was wanted in Massachusetts for the murder of a man Brockton in 2020, Fox17 reports.
Vega and his alleged accomplice, identified as Takari Elliot, are accused of shooting a 25-year-old multiple times in the head and body.
Elliot had been arrested back in March but Vega had remained on the loose until the incident.
Elliot has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Police Chief John Drake said during a press conference :"What you don't see on there is that, when he was down, there were five officers who rendered aid to this individual," reports NBC News.
He added that the officer was facing a lethal situation and responded appropriately.
The shooting comes after teen Ma'khia Bryant, was fatally shot by a cop in Ohio just moments before Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.
Footage from the scene showed a "knife-wielding" teen being shot multiple times amid an altercation with two other females.
Two girls can be seen arguing before a cop shouted "Get down" and began firing his weapon multiple times at one of them.
The officer was later identified as Nicholas Reardon and has been placed on administrative leave.
Every cop needs to learn the new skill of dropping down on your knees after a shooting raising your arms like Elias in “Platoon”. Scream “WHY?????”, and plead with God to take them instead.
Pull a nose hair to make a tear.
People love sincerity. When you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Nearly a standard Tueller drill - of course, the officer must now be fired lest a riot breakout in the usual quarters of the city. /s
He did way more than give that perp warning. That Cop endangered his own life giving him 3 warnings. One was enough.
Vega was obviously pursuing a fledgling rap career and planning on going back to school.
You can tell by the face and neck tattoos.
From the video it looked like Vega tried to or did get in a patrol car. If it was this officers he was a good distance from it.
For a minute, I thought you inserted Vega into the Bryant pic at the bottom of the article.
Joy Behar will ask why he didn’t shoot in the air.
Yes he did.
yup
if i have to shoot, zero warnings
Cops do their job everyday, but now it’s considered newsworthy.
“When you have to shoot....shoot. Don’t talk”
Tuco
Marvin was hoping for a golden casket?
The “Tear Drop” tattoo means he knows someone that was killed.
I wonder if the Funeral Home could add one for the dude in his own honor?
The BLM will say the cop should have run away.
Even more good news.
The BLM will say the cop should have run away.
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LEO will have to start paying attention to the movies etc and learn how to ‘wing em’.
OR
Just shoot the knife or weapon out of the hand with no one getting hurt.
I used to ‘love’ the old movies with the guy in the ‘white’ hat galloping down the road while the bad guys with rifles were shooting at him from the nearby ridges and the ‘good guy’ with only two SIX shooters manages to take out 15 or 20 of them on the ridge.
Not bad for 2 six shooters and on a galloping horse.
His murder warrant incentivized his last bad decision.
LOL!
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