'All right, here I come': Bodycam video shows police shooting man with crowbar

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West Valley police released body camera video Thursday of their most recent officer-involved shooting.

The video shows Denny James Clark, 25, walking briskly toward three West Valley police officers while holding a crowbar over his head on May 10. Despite orders to drop it, Clark continued advancing on the officers and was shot.

Clark survived the shooting and on Tuesday was charged in 3rd District Court with aggravated burglary, a first-degree felony; two counts of assault on a police officer, a second-degree felony; plus vehicle burglary and criminal mischief, class A misdemeanors.

West Valley police released a video presentation regarding the shooting. The pre-recorded nine-minute presentation includes body camera video from all three officers on scene, as well as the initial 911 call.

About 1:30 a.m. on May 10, emergency dispatchers received multiple calls reporting that a man was using a metal object to break windows and trying to enter homes in the area of 3850 South and 4800 West. One woman called 911 to report the man was breaking into a truck parked in her driveway, according to charging documents, before using the crowbar to hit her front door.

"He broke the windows on my door," the woman tells 911 in a recording of her call. "He's attacking everyone's houses. … He's a stranger and he's drunk."

When officers arrived, Clark was standing next to a vehicle in the woman's driveway holding the crowbar.

"Hey. Drop that. Drop it right now," an officer is heard on body camera video commanding Clark.

"Nope," he replies.

"Hey, put it down."

"Nope," he says again.

An officer then talks into his police radio, telling dispatchers to "expedite all units."

Moments later, Clark says something in the video about getting the keys before he turns his attention to the officers.

"All right, here I come," Clark tells the officers as he begins walking briskly toward the officers while still holding the crowbar with both hands above his head.

"You're going to stay back," an officer orders.

One officer, who didn't want to shoot knowing that there were bystanders behind Clark, began to run backward as Clark chased him into the street. A second officer attempted to use his Taser as Clark ran by, but it had no effect.

As the group reached the main road, a third officer is seen in the video running after Clark who is still chasing the first officer. Clark then stops and diverts his attention to the other officer running after him.

As Clark moves toward that officer and continues to disobey commands to drop the crowbar, the officer fires five rounds.

Clark falls to the ground on his back and is seen in the video screaming in pain as he kicks both of his legs in the air. After Clark tells the officers he can't move one of his arms because it's broken, he complies with commands to roll over and is placed into handcuffs.

"Where you hit, bud?" an officer asks.

"Everywhere," he replied.

The officers gave Clark medical attention before he was taken to a local hospital. After he was released from the hospital, he was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail.

The officer that fired the shots remained on paid administrative leave Thursday pending an internal review and determination by the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office whether the shooting was legally justified.

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