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Robert Brown, 28, had simply tossed one thing over a fence earlier than vaulting himself over when the San Bernardino police officer operating steps behind him opened hearth via a spot within the fence’s wooden panels, hanging Brown a minimum of as soon as on Wednesday, Dec. 27.
Video from the officer’s body-worn digital camera exhibits Brown bleeding profusely from his mouth whereas stumbling into the wall of a small shed. The officer holds Brown at gunpoint as different officers arrive.
“You have to get on the bottom proper now, boss,” the officer says to Brown, who’s standing on his knees along with his palms up. As blood pours down his sweater, Brown shakes his head and makes an attempt to talk, however can’t.
“I’m severe, bro. I may help you,” the officer says.
Several different officers then climb over the fence earlier than they pile on prime of Brown and put him in handcuffs. Brown — a father of a 6-year-old boy, however who police say had a no-bail warrant for his arrest — later died at a hospital.
The dramatic video was first edited and launched by the division in February, with the household’s legal professional releasing the video in full on Friday, May 31. The movies present intimately what led as much as the killing of Brown, however the submitting of the declare has led to dueling narratives of the capturing.
In the division’s video of the incident, the motor officer pulls up behind the SUV Brown was driving. Brown turns left right into a cemetery, with the officer following him, then flashing his lights. The video exhibits Brown persevering with to drive via the cemetery because the officer chases him.
The chase winds on for about two and a half minutes earlier than Brown pulls right into a residential neighborhood within the 1200 block of Pepper Tree Lane. Seconds after stopping, Brown jumps out of his SUV and runs. The officer shouts after him to cease, then continues to chase him on foot behind a house.
As Brown runs previous a chain-link fence door, he drops a small black object, then scrambles to choose it up.
He runs via the house’s yard, then approaches the rear fence. That’s when Brown might be seen tossing an object over the fence.
In the video, San Bernardino police zoom in on the thing, which seems to be a black handgun. They mentioned the officer fired after peering via slats within the fence and noticed Brown kneeling close to the gun and selecting it up.
Believing Brown “had rearmed himself,” the officer fires a volley of photographs at him.
Lieutenant Jennifer Kohler, a division spokesman, mentioned within the video that officers discovered the gun on the scene, figuring out it as a 9-millimeter handgun that had been stolen in Las Vegas. The division additionally launched a photograph of the gun.
Officials haven’t mentioned what crime Brown was accused of that led to the warrant for his arrest.
Brad Gage, an legal professional for Brown’s household, disputed that Brown had a gun, as a substitute claiming the thing was a cellular phone. He mentioned no matter what Brown was holding, he was not armed when he climbed over the fence.
Officials for the division declined to touch upon the declare, pointing to the sooner video launch.
Brown’s father and sister spoke at Gage’s workplace in Woodland Hills on Friday.
“I simply need everyone to understand how a lot he was beloved,” mentioned his father, Willy Brown, via tears. “I beloved him. That’s actually all I’ve to say.”
