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Authorities in Lorain County have arrested Matt Dillion, a man who allegedly assaulted a police officer and dragged the officer by his car while evading arrest for domestic violence. According to the Lorain County Sheriff's Office, Dillion, who was wanted on several warrants including charges of domestic violence and assault on a police officer, was arrested in Amherst on Thursday The arrest came after a pursuit by the Amherst Police Department and Lorain County Sheriff's Office. The suspect fled on foot after crashing into a Lorain County Sheriff's Cruiser near the State Route 2 overpass. Law enforcement officers took Dillion into custody after using the drone unit and K9 "Zor." Officials noted that the deputy driving the vehicle was not injured, but was taken to the hospital as a precaution. Deputies responded to an address on Wallu Drive in South Amherst on Wednesday for a complaint of domestic violence and found Dillion sitting in the driver's seat of a pickup truck in the driveway of the residence. Deputies determined Dillion was in violation of Ohio's domestic violence statute following an investigation. Authorities say deputies attempted to give Dillion multiple verbal commands for him to exit the vehicle for over an hour, which Dillion refused. Deputies then tried to remove Dillion from the vehicle. Dillion allegedly shifted the truck into gear and attempted to reverse out of the driveway. "While reversing, a Deputy was partially dragged by the vehicle while being physically assaulted by Dillion," the sheriff's office said. The officer was not injured. Dillion escaped the deputies after the incident and several warrants were issued through Oberlin Municipal Court. Later that same day, the sheriff's office was again called to the same Wally Drive home, where Dillion and his pickup truck had allegedly returned. After deputies attempted to arrest Dillion, deputies say he refused to comply and drove away in the pickup truck. Deputies tried to pursue Dillion's truck on State Route 113 in South Amherst, but ended the chase on SR 2 near Avon "in the interests of public safety." Authorities reported there were no injuries in any of the incidents. According to the sheriff's office, further charges against Dillion are pending following Wednesday's incidents.

A mouthy “idiot” Trenton police officer already under FBI investigation tried using her clout to get professional courtesy during a car stop, footage shows. Veteran cop Tara Dzurkoc “flipped out” on Hamilton police officers who pulled over her new cop boy toy, Mercer County sheriff officer Matt Sickler, on Whitehorse-Hamilton Square Road last month over suspicion of domestic violence. Officers stopped Sickler’s Chevrolet Silverado on Aug. 20 just before 8 p.m. after a woman flagged down officers, telling them she saw a man in black pickup assault a woman and shove her back into the vehicle, according to a police report obtained by The Trentonian through a records request. Dzurkoc feistily denied that the two were involved in a physical entanglement and grew increasingly angry as the couple refused to provide their names to officers, footage shows. “Are you sh**ting me?” she said when officers told her they needed the couple’s names so they could file a report. “What if I say no? I don’t want to give my ID,” Sickler said. “Just asking out of curiosity.” Dzurkoc went on to profanely berate cops as “a**holes,” demand that they bring a supervisor to the scene with whom she was buddy-buddy and repeatedly flipped them the bird. The second time she threw the finger was in front of their supervisor, Sgt. Thomas DeVictoria, who was brought to the scene to calm down the out-of-control city cop. “I’m f**king done with this bullsh*t. I didn’t do a godda** thing wrong. They’re talking to me like a piece of f**king shit,” an animated and irate Dzurkoc told DeVictoria. “I told them if he was to assault me he’d be under the fucking bridge not me. Not f**king me.” “I know. I’ve seen you in action,” DeVictoria replied, trying to soothe the agitated cop. “I’m the victim here, and they’re a f**king a**hole to me,” Dzurkoc said, before clarifying herself as “so-called victim” while using air quotes. “Listen to me, Tara. I know you. I’ve backed you up before on jobs, “DeVictoria said. “Look it. Relax. Your boyfriend takes off and doesn’t stop. Now we’re thinking we’re in a car pursuit. I’m here to calm everything down. I wanna get you out of this, but you gotta understand where these officers are coming from.” Cooler heads eventually prevailed with DeVictoria making the call to cut the couple loose without any charges. But it did them little good, as they ended up getting hooked and booked on simple assault charges at a Best Western in Bordentown Township hours later, records show. A police report in that case revealed that Dzurkoc allegedly pulled a hotel clerk down by the hair and kicked her while her boyfriend mixed it up with another man as everyone was checking into the hotel. Dzurkoc’s aggressive tactics already caught the attention of the FBI. The Trentonian reported last month that the city cop is being looked at by the feds for beating up a slight Guatemalan woman in 2020, while Dzurkoc was assigned to the U.S Marshal’s New York/New Jersey Regional Task Force. The victim, Gloria Ramirez, filed suit against Dzurkoc, claiming she knocked out her teeth while wailing on her as she had a 3-year-old draped on her. Ramirez, who pictures show was beaten black and blue, cooperated and provided a statement to the FBI, implicating Dzurkoc with using excessive force. Some of Dzurkoc’s task-force colleagues were summoned by the FBI to give statements about what happened during the Jan. 7, 2020 flap. Trump-loving Dzurkoc – an attorney suing the cop butchered the pronunciation of her name as Dee-Zer-Cock – was on injury leave from TPD following an on-duty crash. She has since been suspended without pay following the encounters with Hamilton and Bordentown cops, as the department decides whether to fire her. Her boyfriend Sickler was placed on desk duty. Police sources previously described body-camera footage as ugly for Dzurkoc. And footage shows her losing her mind several times while officers tried getting to the bottom of what occurred between the always-arguing couple. Dzurkoc immediately identified herself as a Trenton cop while insisting Sickler never laid hands on her as she spoke to Hamilton Police Officer Nicholas Episcopo outside the pickup. “You’re going to write your report for being flagged down? God bless you and waste your time. See ya later,” she said before getting back into Sickler’s pickup. That’s when Episcopo called for a supervisor and told Dzurkoc she wasn’t free to leave. She later re-engaged with Episcopo. “I’m a cop. I want to leave so let me leave with my boyfriend,” she told him, asking what pedigree information he needed from her to let the couple be on their way. “What more do you want? I don’t want nothing to do with you. The cops in general, in Hamilton. I’m sorry.” Dzurkoc offered to jot down her name but Episcopo said he could handle it. “You know why I’m irate? Because I’m being pulled over by you people. I’m a cop. And I don’t want to be pulled over from a f**king cop. I’m not even driving,” Dzurkoc said. While waiting for DeVictoria to arrive, Hamilton cops chatted among themselves about the combative Dzurkoc as she shouted at them from the window, at one point telling them to bring over her Hamilton Police supervisor friends to get her off the hook. One of the cops shot back, “They’re not gonna help you. You did this.” Episcopo’s partner, Officer Brian Buchalski, then let colleagues know what he really thinks of the couple’s story and Trenton Police. “His story sucks. He doesn’t want to talk to us. Something happened,” Buchalski said. “They tried to get away from us. They’re both full of sh*t. Whatever you don’t want to talk. No signs of injuries. No complaints. Nothing we can do about it. All we can do, but then we getting flagged down. “Don’t tell me you’re from Trenton, who is in the news like every week for domestics and doing f**ked up sh*t and breaking rules and f**king everyone going to jail. Don’t use that over my f**king head. Not my f**king problem.” As Dzurkoc continued bantering with officers, cops said she was “acting like an idiot” and “a f**king a**hole.” Episcopo recounted for colleagues how he tried reasoning with Sickler, who he knew from law-enforcement circles. “I tell him listen, man, she’s not f**king helping us. I’m asking her information and she tells me to go f**k myself and walks away. What would you do?,” Episcopo said. “She’s obstructing, man. I’m gonna let that slide on camera? You tell me. He says you had discretion with obstruction. OK, all right. If nothing happened, nothing happened. It’s fine. But I can’t let her violate a law in front of me, dude, on camera.” Dzurkoc later told DeVictoria what she really thought about Episcopo. “The guy with the glasses, f**k him. I’m sorry. I know I’m on camera. I don’t give a flying sh*t anymore,” she said. “I don’t want to see that kid one more time in my entire life.”

New police body camera video shows officers shooting a man in Gallup last month. Police have not commented on whether this suspect may have had a gun at the exact moment when they shot him. In the new video, you can hear officers calling out that he has a gun shortly before they shoot him. When initial reports came out about the shooting, police believed the man led them on a car chase through Gallup before trying to steal another car. But new body camera video shows that’s not exactly what happened. Newly-released lapel video shows how the night of Dec. 11, 2023, started for a Gallup police officer. Gallup police were called to a home in west Gallup for what the homeowners told police was trespassing. A man told police he was there to see his girlfriend, but the homeowners say he had been drinking, and they were worried about their safety. In the video, people can see the officer walk to his patrol unit for the breathalyzer test, and that’s when the man gets in his car and speeds away. According to police, the officer saw a gun fall out of the man’s car, and the man picked it up and racked it before taking off. Police say he led officers on a car chase before the man pulled into the Lotaburger on Route 66 and Patton Drive. A witness told police he was with the man’s sister when the man called and told them about the chase. The witness says the man planned to meet them in the Lotaburger parking lot. Initially, police thought the man was trying to carjack them. That’s where the video shows the man running to their car before he is shot by police. In the video, people can see a gun on the ground where the man was shot by police. According to New Mexico State Police – who took over the investigation – at least one officer fired at least one round at the man. Neither Gallup police nor state police have identified the man. Gallup police told KOB 4 the man was out of the hospital. However, they’re “not in a position to comment on his condition.” So far, we do not see that he’s facing charges – so we’re also not naming him. The Gallup Police Department did not get back to KOB 4 about the suspect and possible charges. State police did not give us any further updates on the investigation.

One police officer was killed and one was wounded as a result of an armed attack by unknown persons on Saturday night in the Gaysinsky district of Vinnytsia region, reports the communications department of the National Police of Ukraine. “At about 2 a.m. in the Gaysinsky district of the Vinnytsia region, police stopped an unknown dark-colored car to check. There were two men in the car. They opened fire on the police. A 20-year-old policeman died from his injuries, his partner was wounded,” the report says. . A police operation has been introduced in the Vinnitsa and Odessa regions. “Thanks to the efforts of the operational services, it was possible to identify persons likely involved in the crime. The information was sent to all regional units of the National Police... Measures are being taken to locate and detain persons involved in the murder of our colleague,” the National Police said.

The Office of Attorney General Letitia James released video of a deadly police shooting on Christmas Eve in Rochester Tuesday. Rochester police fatally shot Todd Novick, 46, around 8:30 a.m. on December 24 on Murray Street. Investigators said officers were called to the scene for reports of a man with a gun. The 1:47 video released by the AG’s office Tuesday includes 20 seconds of footage and audio after the shooting omitted from the video previously released by the Rochester Police Department. It begins with an officer identified as Officer Celiberti approaching the scene in a vehicle. Novick is standing with at least one other person, who has been blurred from the video. “What’s going on today,” the officer says. “Just walking this way,” an unidentified person says. “We’re not staying long.” Novick tells the officer he’s going to work at a mechanic shop. The officer asks what he does there, and Novick says he works on cars. “So what are you guys doing right here though,” the officer says. “I was passing by, and we were talking,” Novick says. “I can’t [unintelligible] go by and talk?” Another RPD patrol car pulls up to the scene, and Officer Celiberti says, “we’ve got some weird calls, man.” At that point, Novick walks around the blurred person or people, away from the officer who just arrived. Officer Celiberti begins asking him to hang on a minute, but Novick sprints away. The officer gives chase. Within four seconds, Novick appears to lift up his shirt and reach for his waistband. The officer aims their weapon and orders Novick to stop As Novick turns the corner, he appears to have something in his hand. The officer says “drop the gun, drop the-” then shoots five times. Novick collapses in the driveway and rolls over onto his back. The officer orders him to get on his stomach and put his hands behind his back. “On your stomach now! On your stomach now! Hands behind your back. Hands behind your back. Other hand behind your back. Hand behind your [expletive] back! “I was trying to put it down,” Novick says when a second officer approaches and begins handcuffing him. Police call for backup, saying a male is down, and a handgun is recovered. The video ends there. Novick was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police later said the handgun was a replica.

A Wisconsin man was found guilty Thursday on federal charges related to his relations with an Iron Mountain 15-year-old last year. Todd Allen Stafford was found guilty on all counts, including coercion or enticement of a minor, and two counts of travelling across state lines for the purpose of engaging in illicit conduct. Last summer, police were alerted to Stafford’s behavior after parents discovered concerning messages on their child’s phone. After investigating, police posed as the teen to lure Stafford to a park in Iron Mountain before surrounding and arresting him. “Mr. Stafford preyed on minors,” said U.S. Attorney Mark Totten after the jury read their verdict. “Today he was held accountable. Those who exploit children and think they can hide should think twice. Protecting our most vulnerable is, and will continue to be, a top priority for our office.” “The dangers our children face from online predators are very real and happening too often in our communities,” said Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Michigan. “My office stands with our partners at the Iron Mountain Police Department in our commitment to vigorously investigate those who commit crimes against children.”

Baltimore Police Department released body-worn camera footage of a Southwest District police officer-involved shooting. The shooting occurred last month when a routine patrol took an unexpected turn when officers encountered a naked man on West Pratt Street. The video takes place on Dec. 30, 2023, at approximately 9:15 a.m., when Southwest District patrol officers were responding to a burglary call when they observed a naked man standing on the corner in the 2000 block of West Pratt Street. The man is seen in the video walking into a convenience store, and officers parked their vehicle to investigate further. Once inside, an employee of the store informed officers that the man, identified as 37-year-old Russom Gebretsadik, had gone upstairs in the rear of the building. Officers proceeded to the rear of the building and attempted to talk to the Gebretsadik, at which point he began to throw items at officers. Officers called for backup and were able to retrieve a ballistic shield. Officers then went up multiple flights of steps and cleared several rooms in an attempt to locate Gebretsadik. Once on the third floor, Gebretsadik emerged from behind a door with a combat knife and a machete and began advancing toward officers. One officer fired his weapon five times, striking Gebretsadik once in his leg. According to police, the involved Baltimore Police officer has been identified as Officer James Stokes, a 9-year veteran of the Department.

Law enforcement officials say three suspects have been arrested and one person has non-life threatening injuries after a shooting near Shipwreck Ltd. on Front Beach Rd. in Panama City Beach on Sunday. Panama City Beach Police, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office and the Panama City Police Department held a news conference Sunday evening on the shooting. Panama City Beach Police Chief J.R. Talamantez said the shooting incident happened around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday outside of Shipwreck Ltd. More than 80 officers were in the vicinity and responded. Talamantez said three suspects were arrested and are being questioned. Officials said they don’t know how many guns were involved in the incident. PCB Police say the victim is a 21-year-old from Alabama. “We know the community is frustrated, trust me we are frustrated too,” said Chief Talamantez. “The harsh reality is we cannot control who comes to town. But what we can control is what happens to you if you commit a crime in this town.” Chief Talamantez said they are only able to confirm one shooting incident that happened on Sunday. “We are trying to manage this situation to the best of our ability,” said Talamantez. “I think our officers to this point have done a phenomenal job.” There are no curfews set in place at this point, but Talamentez said “nothing is off the table.” ---------- Keep me motivated by donating to https://paypal.me/thisisbutter Viewer discretion is always advised when watching this video or any others videos. I do not take any responsibility for your trauma, psychological and/or mental harm. I do not recommend anyone to attempt, act/reproduce, and/or create hate from what you see in this video or any other videos. Enjoy.

Fort Worth police released body camera footage Friday that shows more details from when an officer shot a robbery suspect earlier this month. The shooting happened on Jan. 7 in the 3200 block of Fargo Court. Fort Worth police said officers responded around 4 a.m. that day to a robbery at a 24-hour vape shop in the 6400 block of McCart Avenue near Altamesa Boulevard. Store surveillance cameras recorded a suspect, later identified as Walker Cadd, 37, entering the store armed with a crowbar, according to police, and a store employee called 911 for help. Fort Worth police said officers arrived at the scene minutes after the call. When they found Cadd, he allegedly took off into an open field behind the shopping center. Cadd was then found hiding in the backyard of a home in the 3200 block of Fargo Court, according to police. Police say an officer drew a weapon and ordered Cadd to show his hands, but Cadd didn't comply, saying "No" several times. Police say Cadd stood up and walked toward the officer, and, at one point, when Cadd was within arm's reach of the officer, the officer pushed him back, and Cadd exited the shed. The officer reached for Cadd; Cadd turned toward the officer, and reached toward his gun, and, at that point, the officer fired two shots from his pistol, with one shot hitting Cadd in the leg, according to police. Police said the officers at the scene provided first aid to the suspect before he was taken to a hospital for treatment and released. Cadd was booked into the Tarrant County Jail on complaints of theft and attempting to take a weapon from an officer, jail records show. No one inside the vape shop was injured, nor were any of the officers involved.

Keep me motivated by donating to https://paypal.me/thisisbutter Viewer discretion is always advised when watching this video or any others videos. I do not take any responsibility to your trauma, psychological and/or mental harm. I do not recommend anyone to attempt, act/reproduce, and/or create hate from what you see in this video or any other videos. Enjoy. -------------------- Newschannel 20 and FOX Illinois obtained new body camera video of the incident sparking Dartavius Barnes to sue the City of Springfield. In the suit, Barnes claims his vehicle was unlawfully searched on April 6, 2020 when he was pulled over near Laurel and 16th Streets in Springfield. He says officers placed him in handcuffs while they searched his vehicle without consent, valid warrant, or probable cause. During the search, Barnes says officers took a sealed urn of his daughter's ashes, unsealed it, opened it without consent, and spilled out the ashes. Dartavius Barnes is the biological father of Ta'Naja Barnes, the 2-year-old found unresponsive in her Decatur home in 2019. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital in Decatur. Ta'Naja's mother and her mother's boyfriend would go on to be arrested on murder charges in her death. Barnes filed the lawsuit in October. The body camera footage sheds new light on the moments police spend with the bullet-shaped urn. "Please give me my daughter, put her in my hand," Barnes pleaded with officers when he discovered they had the urn. According to incident reports, Barnes was pulled over for speeding through an area following reported gunfire. Barnes was handcuffed and detained. While one officer investigated the shots fired, walking up and down the block, another searches Barnes' car with his permission. "You got anything in your car?" an officer asks. Barnes responded "Not really," before admitting he had marijuana. "No problem if I search?" the officer asks Barnes. "Yeah, go ahead," Barnes responded. According to the report, they found an illegal amount of marijuana and what they thought was ecstasy or meth. An officer presented the officer whose body camera was rolling with a narcotics test kit. "I checked for cocaine, but it looks like it's probably molly," the officer said. "X pills," the other added, citing the street name for ecstasy. That container the officer is holding, we soon find out, is Ta'Naja's urn. The officer wrapped the container in his plastic glove and it was placed with other evidence. In the incident report, an officer wrote, "I have seen similar items like this before utilized to contain narcotics." An officer went to tell Barnes the container tested positive for meth or ecstasy. Barnes appeared confused and asked to see what they found. The officer retrieved the container, wrapped in the plastic glove, and when it was shown to Barnes, the reaction was immediate. Barnes yelled, "No, that's my daughter," and tried to reach for the urn. The officer closed the door and turned to other officers at the scene. "This is his daughter's ashes that Reibeling thought tested positive for meth," the officer said. Officers went to test the contents again, but then decided they believed him. Police gave the urn to Barnes' father, who was waiting up the street. After 21 minutes in the back of the police car, Barnes was released and given a notice to appear. Back in the police car, two officers had this exchange: "I'm just gonna give him a notice to appear on the weed," one said. "OK, aside from pissing off dad and testing the dead baby ashes," the other responded. In their response to the suit, officers said they're "entitled to qualified immunity as their conduct was justified by an objectively reasonable belief that it was lawful."

According to previous reports, 42-year-old D’armon Graves Jr., an Indianapolis resident, was shot and killed by members of the Indiana State Police, as well as IMPD, after a high-risk traffic stop near the intersection of East 40th Street and North Keystone Avenue on the afternoon of Sept. 26, 2023. The law enforcement officers were a part of the Indiana Crime Guns Task Force. Officials said at the time that Graves was wanted on a violent felony warrant. When the vehicle that Graves was in was pulled over, officials said Graves exited the vehicle with a firearm and three people, two IMPD officers and one Indiana State Trooper, shot and killed Graves. According to the video released by IMPD, the task force officials were looking for Graves, who was reportedly wanted on an outstanding felony warrant for a parole violation. Graves was reportedly on parole after being convicted of a robbery with a bodily injury. Graves, according to the video, was observed by officers in the passenger seat of a silver car around 4:38 p.m. on Sept. 26, 2023. Members of the task force, as well as an unmarked vehicle, conducted a high-risk traffic stop on the silver car. The edited video shows a number of perspectives of the incident, including drone footage, as well as body camera from two of the officers involved in the shooting. The video shows the driver, a female, exit the car with her hands up before the shooting. “I will shoot, get your f—— hands up now,” one of the officers who was on the driver’s side told the woman, according to the video. “Hands up, keep them up. Throw the keys out now.” The video shows the driver leave the car with her hands raised, the officer stressing that she left the keys in the car. In the video, an officer on the passenger side told Graves: “Hands up. Out the window. Put your hands up. Put your hands up. Put your hands up,” he said. The video shows that Graves exited the passenger side of the car with what officers said was a gun in his hand. Officers said that Graves raised the gun and pointed it in the direction of officers. Three officers, including one from the Indiana State Police and two from the IMPD, fired multiple shots. After the shooting, officers moved toward Graves to detain him and render aid. Graves was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials said at the time that the driver of the vehicle safely exited the vehicle before officers moved in to apprehend Graves. No law enforcement was injured in the incident.

A Rutherford County man claims he was unjustly arrested and Woodfin police officers used excessive force while doing so. According to Geoffrey Auer Sr., he was staying at his girlfriend’s house on Oct. 3, 2021, when he noticed lights outside. He said he went to investigate with a beer in one hand and his cell phone in the other. “It’s 2:30 in the morning and you see this bright light shining in your window, that’s odd to me,” Auer said. He started recording when he saw a Woodfin police car parked on the street. Auer said a sleeping officer was inside. The flash on his cell phone woke the officer up. “I never got close to him, never threatened him in any way,” Auer said. “He jumped out of his car, and I can be a smart aleck, but I don’t think that’s against the law, and I asked if he had a nice nap.” Documents show the officer, Seikoyen Sasaki, was there for an unrelated incident earlier that night. Sasaki called Sgt. Andrew Arthur for backup after his encounter with Auer. Still recording when the officer arrived, Auer said Arthur was aggressive. “He smacked me. I thought he punched me, but maybe it was a smack. It was quick, and [he] knocked my phone away,” Auer said. “I went over there and picked it up, started filming again.” That’s when officers knocked him to the ground and arrested him, Auer said, injuring his shoulder in the process. The arrest was unjust, according to Auer, and excessively forceful. “He was charged with resist, delay and obstruct for shining a light in their eyes and then pulling away from them they were trying to arrest him,” Auer’s attorney Joe Bowman said. “Whenever you see a resist, delay and obstruct charge standing alone and there’s no other charge, it’s suspicious.” Bowman said it is a First Amendment violation to stop residents from recording police. “The sergeant kept his cell phone, and my client watched him delete all of the videos,” Bowman said. “You could say that Geoffrey [Auer] shouldn’t have argued with the police and shouldn’t have criticized them for falling asleep on the job, but he has every right to. The police have to withstand criticism.” The incident occurred six weeks after another claim of excessive force by Woodfin Police Department officers. Video from August 2021 showed officers tasing and arresting a man outside a business on Riverside Drive after he refused to get out of his parked car. “If it happens once, maybe it’s a one-off. I happens twice, maybe it’s a pattern, “Bowman said. “You have to have thick to be a police officer. If you are going to go around and try to use your authority as a police officer to try and win every personal confrontation that offends you while you’re working, you’re in the wrong line of business.” According to Bowman, the Buncombe County District Attorney’s Office dropped all of Auer’s charges in May. Auer has since undergone surgery on his injured shoulder, and Bowman said they are considering different legal avenues. For now, Auer just wants his message to be heard: “Somebody has to stand up. We see this across our country all the time. This can’t happen. They’re there to enforce the law, not be judge, jury or executioner,” Auer said. “Just because somebody has a badge and a gun and a vest, doesn’t make them almighty.”

Newly released body cam video captured the dramatic takedown of two men accused of shooting at Oklahoma City police officers just days before Christmas. The men were confronted and accused of shooting dozens of rounds into a metro home that was occupied by children. Both of those suspects were arrested on the same day as the shooting. It all happened near Southwest 26th and Douglas, where officers recovered several weapons from the scene. Police said one of its supervisors was driving nearby when he witnessed two people shooting at the house, so he returned fire. The supervisor struck one suspect in the arm. Per department policy, that supervisor was not wearing a body camera. Crime scene photos reveal bullet holes inside a house, including a couch. The clips show an officer locating the first suspect, 28-year-old Quintel Price. He was arrested without issue. Later on, officers found 26-year-old Vandell Stubbs who had been shot in the arm. Officers used a beanbag gun during his arrest. Police said no one inside the original home that was shot at was injured. The officer who shot at the suspects is still on routine paid administrative leave. Price and Stubbs are both currently out on bond.

A local police officer was justified when she shot and wounded a man at an apartment complex last year as he advanced on her with a knife, telling her to "hit me," the state Office of the Inspector General determined. Officer Haylee Ouellete fired her service handgun eight times at 58-year-old Joseph Diloreto during the incident on July 16, 2023, Inspector General Robert Devlin wrote in a report released Wednesday. One of the shots struck Diloreto in the upper leg, causing him to fall to the ground, a portion of Ouellete's body-worn camera footage shows. He subsequently was taken into custody. Ouellete had been dispatched to the apartment on North Main Street after a 911 call reported a possible domestic disturbance. She encountered Diloreto, who was in a "highly agitated state" and threatened to kill Ouellete, Devlin wrote in the report. Diloreto then advanced on her from a doorway of the apartment into the apartment complex courtyard. At the time of the shooting, Ouellete was 28 years old and had been with the Manchester Police Department for 4 years. She had "no relevant disciplinary history," the report noted. Devlin's report and Ouellete's body-worn camera footage from the encounter show she first attempted to subdue Diloreto with her Taser, which was ineffective. He then advanced on her with a knife, despite her shouting at him multiple times to drop it, the video shows. "Hit me, hit me, hit me!" Ouellete's body camera footage captured Diloreto yelling at her, as he advanced on her with his hands up. He fell to the ground after Ouellete opened fire on him. The clip ends with Ouellete reaching down to the ground to pick up an object, and radioing that she had recovered the knife. "Based on the facts developed during the investigation, I have determined that Officer Ouellete used deadly force to defend herself from what she reasonably believed to be the threat of serious injury of death," Devlin wrote in his report. "Accordingly, I find such use of force to be objectively reasonable and justified." The report noted Diloreto denied making threats or being armed, a claim Devlin rejected in the report based on the evidence. State police detectives who processed the scene recovered evidence from the courtyard and outside the apartment. The scene evidence showed Ouellete's shots appeared to have struck the exterior of the apartment, as well as a landscaping timber and the concrete door landing, the report said.

Naperville police released video Tuesday showing an officer fatally shoot a man who ran at him with a hatchet during a traffic stop earlier this month. The officer pulled over a car about 11 a.m. June 3 near the intersection of Bond Street and McDowell Road when another car pulled up alongside, Naperville police said. A man, identified as 28-year-old Edward Samaan, got out of that car and “charged” at the officer with a hatchet in hand, police said. Body-camera video shows the officer standing by the car he pulled over for driving through a stop sign. The officer speaks to the driver for about 11 minutes when a silver-colored vehicle traveling in the opposite direction pulls up and stops next to the officer. Samaan then jumps out of the vehicle and rushes toward the officer, appearing to hold a hatchet in his right hand, according to the video. The officer fires several shots and Samaan falls to the ground. “I’ve just been attacked, shots fired, shots fired. Don’t move, don’t move,” the officer can be heard saying over the radio. “Send a medic!” More officers arrive at the scene and handcuff Samaan as he lays on the ground. Paramedics show up shortly after and begin to work on Samaan. “Dude, he just pulled up for no reason,” the officer who fired the shots can be heard telling another officer. Samaan was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The officer, a 22-year veteran of the department, was not injured. An independent investigation into the officer’s use of force is being conducted by the DuPage County Metropolitan Emergency Response and Investigative Team and the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office. ---------- Keep me motivated by donating to https://paypal.me/thisisbutter Viewer discretion is always advised when watching this video or any others videos. I do not take any responsibility for your trauma, psychological and/or mental harm. I do not recommend anyone to attempt, act/reproduce, and/or create hate from what you see in this video or any other videos. Enjoy.

Tuolumne County Sheriff officials have released the body-cam video from the deputy-involved shooting that happened in Groveland. The suspect, 42-year-old Shawn Karr of Coulterville, was pronounced dead at the scene. The deputy involved in the shooting was identified only by his last name, Zanini, in the video. As earlier reported here, on Tuesday, February 27, a white pickup truck was pulled over for several vehicle violations while patrolling along Merrell Road near Harper Road. The driver was found to have a vile with white powder residue on him, suspected of being methamphetamine. Karr was the passenger, and the video shows that after arguing with Deputy Zanini, Karr ran but was tackled to the ground. Deputy Zanini reports seeing a gun in Karr’s hand while they struggled, and that is when two shots can be heard. Two loaded guns were recovered, one on the ground within reach of Karr and the other in his left pocket.

Pueblo police have referred assault charges to 10th Judicial District Attorney Jeff Chostner in connection to a violent 2022 citizen's arrest involving a volunteer Pueblo County Sheriff's Office SWAT medic and his son. PCSO medic Doug Cullison and his amateur MMA fighter son, Nate Cullison, are accused of violently detaining and beating a man in September 2022. The investigation initially was dropped by the Pueblo Police Department, which later asserted that "technical issues" hampered the investigation. In early April, the investigation was reopened after a video surfaced showing the Cullisons' violent takedown of a suspect accused of assaulting Doug Cullison's wife, a teacher at a nearby school. Chostner confirmed Tuesday his office has received the referral for third-degree assault charges against Doug and Nate Cullison and his office is currently reviewing them. Video of the citizen's arrest, captured on security camera footage taken from outside of Nick's Dairy Crème on the East Side, showed Doug Cullison tackle the individual to the ground. Two unidentified males then approached the scene, and one of them punched the detained man several times while Cullison held him. Minutes later, the video showed the arrival of Nate Cullison, who sprinted from his vehicle and immediately began striking the downed man. Nate Cullison can be seen on video beating the man while his father holds him, punching, kicking and elbowing him at least 25 times while the restrained man screams for help. On Sept. 14, the subject of the citizen's arrest and beating was issued a ticket for battery in connection to the alleged assault of Cullison's wife and was released, according to a Pueblo PD report. However, Pueblo Police Chief Chris Noeller told Chieftain news partner KRDO News Channel 13 on Monday that the man's charges have since been upgraded to the same as the Cullisons': third-degree assault. * Witnesses describe beating in calls to 911 In a 911 call placed by a witness at a nearby business, the witness said that "someone was getting beat up" outside the store. The caller described a man pinning down the victim while two people were "beating the crap out of him." A second person who contacted police reported that there were "multiple people holding the kid down, and his face was bloody." One of the callers also noted that the man being beaten was "not fighting back." Body-worn camera footage provided to the Chieftain by Martin Conti Law, which is representing the victim in the case, showed Doug Cullison claiming to police that the man they detained "was resisting us a bit" so his son Nate came and "helped put him to ground." Nate Cullison told police that his dad "had him" and that the two of them "had to wrestle him down a bit." The body camera footage showed the victim with a swollen cheek and blood running down his face. An officer at the scene asked him about his injuries, to which he replied, "I got punched," while sobbing. * Noeller calls initial investigation a 'series of judgment errors' Noeller declined to answer questions about the incident when contacted by the Chieftain on Tuesday, and said his statements on the matter would be limited to what he told KRDO on Monday. However, he did say the internal affairs investigation into why the case was not investigated more thoroughly is still ongoing and that no disciplinary action has been determined for any of the four officers involved. Noeller told KRDO that the charges against the Cullisons were based on the degree of the man's injuries. He noted that Nate Cullison's status as a trained MMA fighter could not elevate the charges against him and stated that if the victim had suffered more serious injuries, the charges could have been more severe. Noeller told KRDO that the lack of investigation in September was not a "cover-up" related to Doug Cullison's position at the PCSO and was instead a series of judgment errors by all four officers at the scene. "We are human beings. We make mistakes," Noeller said. "It was a series of judgment errors and mistakes in police work. It shouldn't have ended up the way that it did. There's no doubt we're not happy. Again, I think it would be fair to say that the officers are not happy with the errors that they made." Shawn Conti, an attorney for the victim in the case, questioned Noeller's statement in an interview with the Chieftain. "There were way too many mistakes for it to be acceptable," Conti said. "Not only did dispatch (announce) to responding officers that (the victim) was being assaulted, when they arrived at the scene, he presented with blood and was battered all over. That should have immediately tipped them off that it was not what Doug Cullison wanted them to believe." Conti said police did not take the time to gather witness statements, despite the fact that there were multiple eyewitnesses as well as security camera footage showing exactly what happened. "There were four officers on scene. Two of them could have gone and interviewed employees at Nick's Dairy Crème, they could have interviewed the skateboarders in front of the store and said, 'Hey, what happened?" Conti said. "Every officer takes an oath to do their best to uphold the law, and they're supposed to do a thorough investigation." Conti claimed that one individual made several attempts to provide the surveillance footage to a Pueblo police detective investigating the case, but the detective did not follow up. "What was the disconnect? You have someone saying, 'Listen, I have everything on videotape,' and there was no follow-up on the part of (the detective)." Conti said. Conti said he hopes the district attorney presses "appropriate" charges against the Cullisons. "While PPD may have only sent it over for third-degree assault, there's nothing preventing the DA from pressing more serious charges if they find the evidence warrants it," Conti said. Assault charges have also been referred to Chostner's office for the man accused of assaulting Doug Cullison's wife at the school prior to the citizen's arrest and beating, Conti said.

0:00 - Body cam 1 10:30 - Shooting 12:30 - Body cam 2 13:00 - Shooting 21:40 - Shooting 25:30 - Bodycam 3 28:14 - Shooting 36:50 -Shooting 39:15 - Shooting 40:42 - Bodycam 4 42:13 - Shooting 43:35 - Shooting 46:00 - Shooting ----- The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday released body camera footage of a shootout in Minnetonka that left a man dead and two deputies injured. Deputies with the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office went to a home on the 13000 block of Crestwood Drive East around 11:15 a.m. on April 10 to arrest a person wanted for multiple felonies. After deputies knocked on the door, 28-year-old Clint Hoyhtya — who was not the subject of the arrest warrant — started shooting with an assault-style rifle, according to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Deputies returned fire before retreating to set up a perimeter. The new footage shows four different deputies' perspectives as they scramble for cover and work to stop the shooter. In the footage, you can never quite see Hoyhtya, but you can hear the intense gun battle. You can also see deputy Christopher Heihn get shot in the hand. Less than a minute after knocking on the door, deputies are seen at the back of the house, demanding Hoyhtya show his hands before shots are fired. Police later discovered Hoyhtya was wearing a tactical vest and body armor. Right after one deputy says they need to evacuate neighbors, he sprints to his car. "We got multiple officers pinned down," the deputy can be heard saying. After more shots ring out, the BCA says law enforcement shot and killed Hoyhtya. The Hennepin County medical examiner said he died of multiple gunshot wounds. The BCA says Hennepin County sheriff's deputies Heihn, Tyler Jacob and Keith McNamara fired their department rifles during the shootout. Deputy Steven Tomasko fired his department handgun. The man deputies were looking for is in custody.

0:00 - Intro/Storytelling 5:09 - Body cam ----- The San Luis Obispo Police Department released video surveillance of the May 10, 2021 officer-involved shooting that killed one officer and seriously wounded another. "While the material in the video is deeply disturbing, in the interest of transparency and in response to Public Records Act requests, we hope this release of information provides greater insight into what happened that terrible day," remarked the department. The video, narrated by San Luis Obispo Police Chief Rick Scott, takes viewers through the findings of the investigation and shows graphic content on the day of the shooting from an officer's body camera footage. On May 10, 2021, six SLOPD officers were serving a search warrant to Edward Giron at his apartment on Camellia Court, off Margarita Avenue near South Higuera Street in San Luis Obispo. This search warrant followed an ongoing investigation of four burglaries in surrounding businesses, which all seemed to point to Giron – as described in the video. During a background check of Giron, detectives found that he had multiple welfare checks requested by a co-worker and a relative for concerns of a possible firearm, as well as characteristics of paranoia and signs that he potentially wanted to harm officers. "After conducting the background check and just hours after the fourth burglary, detectives went to Giron's address on Camellia Court and found the same light-colored GMC Envoy (pictured below to the right) in each of the previous burglaries," said Scott. Detectives saw some of the items reported stolen through the burglaries in plain view through the windows of this GMC, so they conducted surveillance of Giron's apartment throughout the day. That same afternoon, a judge authorized a search warrant. Detectives attempted to call Giron twice on the phone, but both calls went unanswered, and they never saw Giron outside of his apartment. SLOPD said detectives then knocked on the apartment door with no response, and attempted to use a key provided by the property manager, but it did not work. The detectives continued to seek alternatives to making a forced entry. In the video, you can see and hear Detective Luca Benedetti knocking and saying multiple times "Edward it's the police department, open the door," but to no avail. Officers then had to use a ramming device to open the apartment door, as seen below. As the door broke open, the officers pointed their firearms inside, and Benedetti positioned himself outside the door frame. Then, gunfire is heard from inside as Giron shot at Benedetti. The department blocked the sight of Benedetti when he is fatally shot, but the video exposed everything around him during and after that moment. The surrounding officers quickly ran down the stairs to safety as Giron fired more shots, and the officer behind the body-cam footage radioed to the department "Shots fired, shots fired, he's got a gun, he's shooting at us, all units, all units." Scott said Giron took Benedetti's rifle from his body and continued shooting at the officers from his elevated position outside his apartment. During the gunfire, Giron hit and severely wounded Detective Steve Orozsco with a shot to his head and his arm – injuries which Scott said Orozsco continues to suffer permanent and debilitating injuries from. Officers were able to return gunfire at Giron, hitting him multiple times, causing him to retreat back into his apartment. In the video, you can hear the officer behind the camera speaking with Orozco about his injuries and asking if he was okay, and you can see Orozco on the right side of the screen. Seconds later, you can hear the sound of the self-inflicted gunshot coming from inside Giron's apartment when Giron used Benedetti's rifle to take his own life. Scott then narrated through the aftermath of the rescue team arriving to find Benedetti's body outside Giron's doorway, and officers entering the apartment for the first time to see Giron dead from the self-inflicted gunshot to his head. An officer transported Orozco to a trauma center for life-saving care. "We're very thankful that detective Orozco this deadly encounter," said Scott. The department said police served the burglary search warrant and located additional items of stolen property inside Giron's apartment from the burglaries. "Any use of force is a matter we take very seriously, especially when it involves the loss of a life," said Scott. "We will never forget detective Benedetti and his family, and we will faithfully honor detective Benedetti and detective Orozco and all of our team members who bravely serve the department, and a grateful community."

Bodycam footage released from Minneapolis Police Department officers shows the pursuit of teenagers that were arrested after riding in a stolen Kia following shots being fired in Minneapolis, striking a school district building. On May 16, Minneapolis officers, including Police Chief Brian O’Hara, responded to reports of approximately a dozen shots fired along Girard Avenue North. Soon after, workers at Minneapolis Public School's Davis Center reported that the building had been hit by bullets. Officers spotted the teens in the area of Lowry Avenue North and Logan Avenue North and began to chase the vehicle, but the pursuit ended due to a bus unloading students in the area. Police continued to track the vehicle using cameras and a state patrol helicopter. Officers caught up with the vehicle near Lyndale, with a second pursuit eventually ending near 28th Street East and Portland Avenue South, where the teens abandoned the stolen Kia and attempted to flee on foot. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara, along with other officers, successfully arrested three of the teenagers. The teen boys were taken to the Juvenile Detention Center on charges related to weapons possession. Two firearms were discovered in the stolen car. "The reckless and violent behavior being undertaken by juveniles in stolen Kia and Hyundai vehicles is an emergency," wrote Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara in a statement after the chase. "These juveniles are a danger to themselves and to anyone who happens to be around them. For the past year, they have been allowed to continue to wreak havoc in our neighborhoods with no recourse and no consequences. We cannot continue to tolerate this behavior." According to the police, the pursuit of the teens was possible due to a recent modification to the police pursuit policy in Minneapolis, which permits officers to pursue suspects in cases involving firearm felonies.

Body camera footage of the Allen Premium Outlet mall mass shooting was released Wednesday after a grand jury no-billed the officer who shot and killed the shooter. The Texas Rangers and the Collin County District Attorney’s Office presented the evidence to the grand jury. The grand jury's no-bill means that after reviewing the evidence, they ruled the use of force was justified under Texas law. Eight people were killed, and several others were injured, when a gunman opened fire at the Allen Premium Outlets on Saturday, May 6. The body camera footage released Wednesday showed the tragic events from the officer's perspective. The video was edited to blur out the faces of civilians and victims, and some language has been removed, Allen police said. The video starts with the officer speaking to a mother and her two kids when more than 10 gunshots are heard off in the distance. The officer calls in the shots fired over the radio, and another round of gunfire is heard. The officer grabs his weapon and tells shoppers to get down. The officer runs across the outlet mall for approximately two-to-three minutes, and multiple rounds of gunfire are heard throughout this time. The entire incident lasted just over four minutes before police neutralized the shooter. “This video shows how quickly a routine interaction with the public turned into a life-and-death situation,” said Allen Police Chief Brian Harvey. “The officer recognized the danger, ran toward the gunfire and neutralized the threat – and for his actions, the Allen community is forever grateful.” The Allen Premium Outlets were closed for nearly a month and reopened on May 31. Following the tragedy, Medical City Healthcare trauma facilities received eight patients. Hospital officials said one patient was taken directly from the scene to Medical City Plano, and five patients were treated at Medical City McKinney. A pediatric patient was transferred to Medical City Children’s Hospital. The final patient was released from the hospital on June 23. While many of the Medical City patients have not been publicly identified due to confidentially laws, WFAA spoke to one in early June, Irvin Walker II, who shared his story. Walker was shot several times while in his car and was among the first people wounded in the mass shooting. “I didn’t see the shooter,” he told WFAA. “I just felt the shots.” Walker, now on the road to recovery after his release from the hospital, thanked the staff at Medical City. "As soon as I entered this hospital, the medical professionals expressed the highest level of love for me," Walker said. "I had the mindset that, 'You know what, when I come here, the energy I'm going to give out, I expect back.' I continue glorifying my Lord, thanking people in advance for using their expertise to repair my body, my spirit, my hope. That mindset, I think, got me through." The Allen Police Department has requested a comprehensive and independent review of the incident by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). The resulting after-action report will offer insight and best practices to support future training and emergency response provided by Allen police.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot a man wielding a shotgun while responding to a robbery in Norwalk on Saturday, authorities said. Around 5:40 p.m., deputies were alerted to a robbery in progress in the 11000 block of Rosecrans Avenue, the Sheriff’s Department said in a statement Sunday. The suspect, a man in his late 30s, stole money and merchandise from a business while pointing a shotgun at its employees, sheriff’s officials said. Upon arriving at the scene, deputies recognized the suspect based on clothing described in the 911 call. As they tried to detain him, the man “produced” a shotgun, according to the Sheriff’s Department statement. Four deputies opened fire, wounding the suspect, who was taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening, the statement said.

The Maricopa Police Department and Pinal County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday jointly released body-worn camera footage from three officers as well as footage from two drones in connection with an Aug. 29 incident that ended in the death of Brian Simmons after an exchange of gunfire with officers. PCSO led the investigation into the incident at Simmons’ house in the 43900 block of West McCord Drive. Pinal County Assessor’s records show Simmons was owner of the home. These critical-incident videos — those that demonstrate some stage of a request for service, law-enforcement response, contact with subject or medical response to an incident involving Maricopa Police officers — show a rapidly escalating environment outside Simmons’ home. Simmons had a history of bizarre behavior around the city and police had been called to his home numerous times, so many that the videos show officers greeting him by name when they arrive at about 10:30 a.m. in response to a noise complaint. They show officers’ initial contact with Simmons, 38, who is in his driveway, strewn with his belongings, loud music blaring. Simmons and his dog walk out to the middle of the street, where several police vehicles are parked. An officer greets him, “Brian! How are you?” Simmons high-fives an officer as another is heard saying to him, “How’s it going, Brian?” Simmons elbow-bumps an officer and says to another, “Give me a hug.” Then, within seconds, the situation takes a turn. Simmons walks back to his driveway. He picks up a firearm but does not appear to point it at officers. Officers can be heard commanding, “Hey Brian, put that down!” and, “Drop the gun!” The commands are repeated several times. Simmons eventually places the gun on the driveway and raises his hands. Officers notify the neighborhood to shelter in place. The Maricopa Unified School District is alerted and places Butterfield Elementary School, a block away, on lockdown as a precaution. Simmons refuses several more commands, including to get down on the ground. Eventually, an officer fires a non-lethal round and appears to hit Simmons. Despite commands to not enter his house, he ignores them and goes inside. Moments later, Simmons comes around to a side yard from the back of the house and fires one shotgun round. No one is hit. Police respond with a flurry of gunfire, at least 22 shots fired. There is a long silence. Eventually, drones are deployed and show Simmons on the ground. A flash-bang is fired and lands within feet of where Simmons lies at 1:15 p.m., evidently an attempt by officers to determine whether he is still alive. He does not move. At about 1:30 p.m., members of the Pinal County Regional SWAT Team, called to assist Maricopa PD, cautiously approach the side gate and peer over the top. They see Simmons’ body. The Pinal County Medical examiner has yet to release the cause of Simmons’ death. The Sheriff’s Office’s investigation into the officer-involved shooting is active and ongoing, it says. Simmons was taken into custody two weeks before his death after rushing past the front desk at Copper Sky Gym complex and beginning to work out despite not having a paid membership. He was charged with criminal trespass and theft of services and booked into Pinal County Jail. He had been involved in a similar trespassing incident at the gym on March 19. Two days before his death, at about 9:20 a.m. on Aug. 27, Simmons was seen shirtless in northbound lanes of John Wayne Parkway near West Alterra Parkway, throwing his shirt at passing vehicles. Simmons was also observed making sporadic movements toward the moving vehicles, causing several to swerve. Soon after, Simmons was seen sprinting northbound down the sidewalk on Plainview Street as Maricopa Police followed in cruisers before crossing Honeycutt Road toward his home. Neighbors, who asked not to be identified, said Simmons had a history of walking up and down their street, throwing his clothes and yelling obscenities. His Facebook page was filled with obscenity-laced posts and photos with obscene gestures. He repeatedly posted that he was going to take on Conor McGregor, an Irish professional mixed martial arts fighter, who is former Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight and lightweight champion. Simmons also made repeated threats toward nationally known podcaster Joe Rogan. Simmons’ page said that he is from Idaho Falls, Idaho. Family members in Idaho have contacted InMaricopa since the incident, painting a different picture of Simmons. They say he once went on mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had a generous heart, gave to others less fortunate and was happy, fun loving and hard working. Records show Simmons filed suit in 2014 alleging Battelle Energy Alliance in Idaho knowingly exposed workers to radiation at an Idaho nuclear facility, where he once worked as a “nuclear operator,” regularly handling plutonium and other radioactive materials. Simmons alleged he was exposed to “radioactive dust” while repackaging fuel plates at the Idaho National Laboratory on Nov. 8, 2011. He and other workers came across damaged plates wrapped in plastic and tape. Simmons alleged he was told to repackage the plates but stopped when he saw “black powder falling from the wrapped fuel plate.” “The events precipitated an uncontrolled release of radioactive material, resulting in the contamination of 16 workers and the facility,” Simmons said in his lawsuit. Family members have said they believe his exposure to radioactive Plutonium-239, a carcinogen, caused Simmons’ personality change.

Four months after Fontana police fatally shot a man wanted for brandishing a gun, Chief Michael Dorsey on Thursday, April 4, publicly released visual and audio recordings and still images that show three officers chasing him apparently carrying a gun through a commercial area before firing upon him. The release came more than two months after the Southern California News Group filed a California Public Records Act request for the recordings and six days after SCNG published a story noting that Fontana police had provided the public scant details on recent shootings by its officers. Dorsey had cited legally allowed exemptions to the open-records law out of concern that releasing the recordings and images would jeopardize an investigation. Officer Steven Reed, a department spokesman, said in an interview on Thursday that the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, which is investigating the shooting, recently told Fontana police they could make the information public. The San Bernardino County District’s Attorney’s Office is also investigating. The name of the man killed in the Dec. 13 shooting, Jose Pena Mejia, had been among the details withheld until Thursday. Fontana police had also declined to say whether the suspect had fired on officers and elaborate on their previous statement that officers fired when the “situation escalated.” Mejia became a wanted man in November when police identified him as a suspect in a firearm brandishing at a market. Around 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 13, an officer pulled over Mejia’s blue pickup near Mango Avenue and Foothill Boulevard in Fontana, Dorsey says in a recording posted on the department’s Facebook page, because of a broken tail light. The officer called for backup when he ran a records check and learned that Mejia was wanted. An officer had Mejia step out of the pickup. “You have anything illegal on you?” an officer asks as he frisks Mejia, a recording shows. “I don’t have anything,” Mejia replies. But the officer felt a gun in the man’s waistband, Dorsey says, and at that moment, Mejia runs off. “He’s got a gun!” an officer shouts. “Drop the gun!” and “Stop reaching!” officers yell during the chase. While the officers are running after Mejia, one can be heard asking that a Taser be poised to deploy. No civilians could be seen in the video, but the foot pursuit approaches several businesses. Mejia appears in a recording to have an object in his hand. After several seconds, three officers shoot Mejia. They performed CPR, but he died at a hospital. “The officers perceived an active threat to their safety,” the chief said. What exactly prompted them to fire is under investigation, Reed said. A recording shows a gun that Dorsey says police found on the ground near Mejia. “Mejia set forth a series of events that forced Fontana police officers to protect both themselves and the community at large”, Dorsey says. Dorsey adds that Mejia was a documented gang member with convictions for attempted murder, domestic violence and kidnapping. Family members of Mejia accused the city of repeatedly refusing to release documents and recordings of the shooting to their attorneys, according to a lawsuit they filed in late January.

D.C. police on Monday released body-camera video from an officer who shot and seriously injured a man running from members of a crime suppression unit earlier this month in Northeast Washington. The video appears to show part of a nighttime foot chase on a sidewalk, with an officer shouting numerous commands to “let me see your hands.” At one point in the video, which lasts about a minute, the officer warns, “I’m going to shoot you.” Shots are heard during the chase, and the video ends with someone on the ground, seemingly trying to get up. The video appears to depict only part of the events that have been described by police in papers filed in court. On the same night as the video was released, authorities identified the officer involved as D.C. police investigator Bryan Madera. The man who was shot was named in court papers as Deion Hinnant, 31. He was hospitalized, and prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office have charged him with unlawful possession of a firearm by a person with a prior conviction. He was ordered detained and has a hearing on Tuesday. The shooting occurred about 8:50 p.m. in the Langdon neighborhood, just north of New York Avenue. Authorities said officers with the violent crimes suppression unit in an unmarked vehicle saw a man later identified as Hinnant arguing with a person at Bladensburg Road and V Street NE. An arrest affidavit filed in D.C. Superior Court says the officers saw Hinnant reach into a satchel he was wearing, “making officers believe that he was in possession of a firearm.” The driver made a U-turn and officers saw that Hinnant “was in fact in possession of a firearm,” and that he began to chase the other person, according to the affidavit. Three D.C. officers got out of the unmarked vehicle and chased Hinnant, “commanding him to show his hands.” Another officer in a marked police car, with lights and sirens activated, assisted in the pursuit. The affidavit says that at one point Hinnant fell to the ground face down, his back toward the pursuing officers. The affidavit says he then got up “and turns his body 90 degrees to the right, in the direction of [an officer].” The court document says Hinnant bent down toward the ground with his right hand, “appearing to retrieve an object.” At that point, a D.C. police officer fired multiple shots at Hinnant, according to the affidavit. Hinnant stood up, the affidavit says, and “a dark-colored object can be observed in his right hand.” The affidavit says he began to run into the drive-through lane at a bank on Bladensburg Road, “where he makes a tossing motion with his right hand upward, the same hand used to bend down and pick up” the object a moment earlier. Police said Hinnant collapsed in the drive-through lane, was detained and then taken to a hospital. Police said they recovered a loaded black Hi-Point 9mm handgun from the scene. Police also said they found suspected drugs, a digital scale and $124 in cash on Hinnant. Police have not said how many times or where on the body Hinnant was struck. The affidavit says ShotSpotter, a device used to detect the sounds of gunshots, alerted police to eight shots at the time and location of the shooting.