SILVER SPRING, Md. -— Video launched Friday from a Maryland police officer’s physique digicam captures him warning the person to drop a knife and get down on the bottom earlier than he fatally shot the person as he charged on the officer.
Montgomery County Police Sgt. David Cohen fired the primary of no less than 5 pictures about one minute after he exited his patrol automobile and confronted Finan H. Berhe, 30, in a residential parking zone on Thursday afternoon.
“Put the knife down!” Cohen screamed as Berhe ran towards him after which stopped, momentarily backing away from the officer, who was pointing a gun at him.
“Get on the bottom! I don’t need to shoot you!” Cohen shouted simply earlier than Berhe began operating on the officer once more.
Because the officer opened hearth, Berhe collapsed and dropped an object he was holding.
“Man down!” a person shouted after the taking pictures stopped.
Police stated investigators recovered a knife that Berhe was brandishing when Cohen shot him. Berhe died at a hospital, police stated. No officers had been injured.
Division spokesman Rick Goodale stated the officer is a white man. Berhe was black, based on on-line courtroom data.
Cohen was the primary officer to reply to a name a few man who threw a rock at a neighbor’s window and yelled for them to name police, based on police Chief Marcus Jones and a police division information launch.
The officer carried out first assist on the person earlier than he was taken to the hospital, based on Jones.
The chief stated there is also eyewitness video of the incident, however that wasn’t instantly launched.
Cohen, a 17-year veteran of the division, has been positioned on paid administrative depart, a normal process after a police taking pictures.
Police detectives’ findings will probably be submitted to the Howard County state’s lawyer’s workplace.
That workplace is also reviewing proof in one other latest lethal taking pictures by Montgomery County police.
The police division has stated an officer shot and killed 21-year-old Duncan Socrates Lemp at his house on March 12. The division has stated Lemp was armed with a rifle and ignored instructions to point out his fingers, however a lawyer for his household stated an eyewitness stated Lemp was asleep in his bed room when police opened hearth from exterior his home in Potomac, Maryland.
Whereas the division launched the bodycam video from Berhe’s taking pictures a day after the incident, it hasn’t launched any physique digicam footage from Lemp’s taking pictures almost two months later. Household lawyer Rene Sandler stated the division hasn’t acknowledged whether or not any bodycam video of Lemp’s taking pictures exists.
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