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Body Camera Video Of A Confrontation And Deadly Police Shooting In Idaho Released (Deemed Suicide By Cop) (Video)
(N.Morgan) An awful situation where a desperate man uses the police for suicide. The knife wielding man was asked 8 times to put the knife down, before police fatally shot Eric Byron Johnston.
The footage below is from a body cam of one of the officers. I must warn, discretion is advised. This is hard footage to watch.
The officer’s body camera footage shows a tense confrontation between the officer and Johnston, who had just fled a nearby car accident and was inside a friend’s apartment. Mortensen entered the apartment looking for Johnston after learning Johnston was upset and had the knife. In fact, Johnston was holding two knives.
Johnston, who was standing in the kitchen, began to walk slowly toward the officer, prompting Mortensen to warn, “I will shoot you.”
Four more times Mortensen yelled for Johnston to put the knives down as the man continued to walk toward the officer. Then he fired five times from a few feet away, and Johnston crumpled to the floor.
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