Cincinnati police bodycam video shows a tense encounter with a peaceful ending

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Cincinnati police body camera footage captured an intense encounter between a Mt. Airy man and a police officer.

It happened during a chaotic scene on Hawaiian Terrace in mid-May.

District five police officers responded to a call about kids fighting and a broken apartment window. That call almost turned into an officer-involved shooting.

"We had some juveniles who had thrown a brick through this young man's home window," said Officer Deon Mack, who responded to the scene. "In response to that, his juvenile ran outside and grabbed one of the kids and assaulted him. Well, then those children went and got their families and their friends of families."

The scene kept growing larger, and in the middle of the police response, Mack saw a man in a white shirt, who lived at the apartment with the broken window, calmly walk to his car and take a gun out of it.

"Hey! Put that s---- down. F--- wrong with you!? Put that s--- down. The f--- wrong with you?" Mack yelled with his gun drawn.

Police leadership said Mack's language was a tactic called "verbal stunning" to grab the man's attention quickly and de-escalate the situation.

"I wasn't gonna shoot," the man said.

"You almost made me have to do something to you. Why would you do that?" Mack said. "But why would you do that? That makes no sense."

The man did not point the weapon at anyone. At the time, there were several officers and juveniles with their backs turned to him.

"I was able to slow things down," Mack said. "When you're in the midst of it, you don't necessarily understand the gravity of the moment. You just know that I have to solve a problem."

Lt. Col. Mike John said Mack showed "remarkable restraint" in his actions and that his experience likely prevented a police shooting.

"If you call 911, you'd want Deon Mack to show up," he said. "There's no question another officer could have pulled their firearm, could have discharged their firearm at that individual. Probably would have been categorized as a justifiable shooting. It's a split-second decision, isn't it?"

"In this situation, just because I could, does not always mean I should," Mack said. "Once we've deescalated the situation down to a place where we can communicate, my point is to leave them better than I got them."

When reached by phone, the man with the gun said he regrets his actions, knows that he scared his family but emphasized that his only intent was to protect his family after he was threatened by people at the scene.

Mack said he wanted the man to learn from his actions, but did not want to punish him out of compassion for his family and the situation.

An additional four-minute encounter is captured on body camera footage of Mack talking to the man who is being detained inside a police cruiser.

"Understand this right? You did an incredibly stupid thing. I -- I just don't -- like with all the things we have going on in this country, for you to do that in front of 10 cops and multiple kids, multiple juveniles, for you to do that was such a grave disregard for your life, for our job and for these kids out here. Alright? That was horrible what you did. Ok? Because you almost forced me and many others to take your life, and that would not have been a cool thing when we came here to help you. We didn't come here to hurt you. We didn't come here to do that, but you almost forced us to do that. And that would have been so unfair, not only to you, not only to your family but to us," Mack said. "And today, to be honest with you, the only real reason you are being cut a break is because I really have compassion for your family, and I have compassion for your family because when we leave here, they need somebody to help protect them over these kids that are gonna be here."

"I lost my head. I'm sorry," the man responded through tears.

There was a collective sense of relief from Mack and from the man's family.

"His wife grabbed my hand and she said to me, thank you for bringing my husband home because you could have taken his life," Mack said.

He called the incident a team effort.