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Crown Heights, NY - The NYPD released body camera footage showing the accidental discharge of an officer's service weapon inside a Brooklyn subway station, an incident that injured two officers and a bystander.

The shooting happened at approximately 4:34 p.m. Sept. 10 inside the Kingston Avenue-Throop Avenue A/C subway station in Crown Heights.

According to police, Officer Sherresse Tyler and her partner, Officer Wahed Newaz, were assigned to a foot post and standing in the mezzanine area of the station when Tyler unintentionally discharged one round from her service firearm.

Investigators said the bullet exited through the bottom of Tyler's holster and struck the ground, causing it to fragment. The resulting bullet fragments or debris injured Tyler in the left shin, Newaz in the left forearm and a civilian passerby in the left ear.

The civilian was taken by ambulance to NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, where she was treated and released, authorities say. Both officers were transported to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County and were also treated and released.

The body camera footage shows Tyler and Newaz standing near the bottom of a stairwell when the gun discharges. A woman descending the stairs can be seen reaching toward her head at the moment the shot is fired.

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Cedartown, GA - Body camera footage revealing the lead-up to the fatal shooting of a pet donkey named HeeHaw was released Friday after being admitted as evidence in a federal lawsuit against the Cedartown police officer who, moments after firing his gun, can be heard telling dispatchers: “Be advised, I just had to shoot a donkey.”

The footage is from the body camera worn by Officer Trenton Garner, who fired the shot that killed the miniature donkey in the early hours of Aug. 30, according to the lawsuit.

The footage depicts Garner walking behind two other officers, one of them holding the leash of a police tracking bloodhound, standing near the top of a small hill as they follow the trail of a 12-year-old girl who had gone missing a few hours earlier.

HeeHaw appears over the ridge and begins to walk quickly toward the officers, who proceed to back up. The donkey continues to approach the second officer while the third officer leads the bloodhound off to the side, out of the camera’s view.

As the second officer slowly backs up, he triggers his Taser into the air, possibly to scare the donkey away.

Garner, who stood a few feet to the right of the second officer, then draws his weapon and appears to fire a single shot at HeeHaw, who quickly walks away, turns once and drops onto the grass.

The footage submitted to court was more than six minutes long, with the shooting of HeeHaw occurring in the first 30 seconds. The remaining footage is of the officers and bloodhound continuing on in the search for the missing 12-year-old.

The officers also continue discussing the shooting in its aftermath.

According to the footage, one officer asks Garner either where the donkey was struck or why he shot the donkey, to which Garner responds, “I don’t know.”

Later, the officer who was about two feet from the donkey when the shot was fired said: “I thought the donkey was gonna kill me,” and Garner responds, “I know.”

HeeHaw’s owner Hannah Israel filed the federal lawsuit against Garner, asking for compensatory and punitive damages, citing unlawful entry and search, unreasonable seizure and destruction of property and deprivation of property, absent due process — all under the Fourth Amendment.

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Providence, RI - Providence police bodycam footage shows a juvenile on a moped crashing head-on into a police cruiser last month.

According to police, officers responded to 160 Cranston St. for a report of several people dressed in black and allegedly carrying knives on Sept. 9.

One male juvenile was seen fleeing on a black moped, officials said.

As Providence police were apprehending people on Dodge Street, the juvenile on the moped was seen on bodycam footage fleeing police and speeding toward multiple officers.

Officers moved out of the way to avoid being struck, according to officials.

Police said the moped continued traveling the wrong way on Dodge Street and crashed head-on into a cruiser.

The cruiser was not moving at the time of the crash.

The juvenile was taken to Hasbro Children's hospital with minor injuries, according to officials.

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Henderson, NV - Henderson police have released new details and video footage following an officer-involved shooting that left a 48-year-old man dead after an hours-long multi-agency standoff near Eastern Avenue on Saturday night.

The suspect, identified by authorities as Ropati Tauiliili, died at the scene after two Henderson Police Department SWAT officers fired simultaneously, according to HPD Deputy Chief Marcos Aguirre.

The incident began around 3:45 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, when Henderson police officers were dispatched to a home in the 2000 block of Club Crest Way, near Warm Springs Road and Green Valley Parkway, for a report of a domestic disturbance. Investigators learned Tauiliili entered through the backyard, battered several family members, pointed a firearm at them, and fled before police arrived.

At approximately 8:08 p.m., Henderson dispatch received multiple 911 calls reporting gunfire. Responding officers found an adult woman suffering from two gunshot wounds. Officers transported her to a local hospital, where she was treated and released.

The niece of 48-year-old Tauiliili placed a 911 call shortly before the gunfire began.

“He hit me in the face multiple times. He also hit my boyfriend in the face multiple times. And pointed the rifle at us,” she said.

Minutes later, dispatch received another call reporting gunshots.

“I heard gunshots outside,” the caller said.

“And how many gunshots do you think you heard?” the dispatcher asked.

“Oh, a lot,” the caller said.

“How many is a lot, approximately? It’s okay,” the dispatcher said.

“Probably like 20, 15, 20, but it was like gunshots outside,” the caller said.

At some point, Tauiliili contacted his employer via text and a recorded phone call, stating he had shot at his family, refused to return to prison, and intended to force a fatal shootout with law enforcement, Aguirre said. Tauiliili had previously served approximately 15 years in prison following a 1997 murder conviction in Hawaii.

Police later found over 200 rifle casings at the scene.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers, along with LVMPD air and drone units, located Tauiliili inside a cul-de-sac at a cemetery near Eastern Avenue in Las Vegas.

Officers from Henderson police, Metro, and the Clark County Office of Public Safety established a perimeter and blocked surrounding roadways.

According to police, Tauiliili was randomly firing his gun for about an hour in multiple directions at responding officers, bystanders, police aircraft, drones, and nearby structures, including a vehicle bumper belonging to a civilian who retreated safely.

“Quiet, quiet, quiet...” one voice said in the video.

One woman was hit twice and survived.

The gunman called his boss, providing insight into his plans.

“I’m just waiting for the police to show up...I’m gonna shoot it out...I’m gonna make them shoot me,” he said.

Both Henderson officers hit the suspect, who died at the scene.

Police identified the officers as Julian Diaz, a full-time SWAT officer with the department since 2019, and Thomas Whitney, a patrol officer and part-time SWAT member also with the department since 2019.

This was the first officer-involved shooting for both officers, Aguirre said. Both have been placed on routine paid administrative leave pending the investigation.

Police said they recovered more than 130 shell casings from the crime scene. It remains unclear what set the suspect off.

No police officers or bystanders were injured.

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Bronx, NY - The New York Police Department on Friday released body-camera footage showing the first officers to arrive after a Dominican man was shot during an ICE-involved shooting in Marble Hill.

Officers said they responded to a 911 call for a man who had been shot and transported him to a hospital for medical care. The NYPD said Thursday that its officers were not involved in the shooting involving federal law enforcement agents.

In the footage, officers pull up moments after the shooting, with one saying a person has a gun. After they step out of their vehicle, bystanders can be heard shouting, “They shot him” and “ICE shot him,” while ICE officers handcuff 28-year-old Oscar Belgal as he sits on the ground.

NYPD officers then lift and carry Belgal to their vehicle before transporting him to the hospital. As they leave the area, officers repeatedly tell him to “put pressure” on his wound.

Federal officials later said Belgal was hit “superficially” in the neck by a bullet or bullet fragment.

Marcos Charles, the acting executive associate director for Homeland Security Investigations, said Belgal was driving with a 5-year-old boy inside his car when he refused to leave the vehicle, accelerated into two ICE vehicles and then drove toward officers.

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Kettering, OH - Officers made an arrest following an incident at a local gas station.

According to the Kettering Police Department, officers responded to a reported theft suspect being on Smithville Road near Forrer Boulevard around 11:15 a.m. on August 19.

Police say they were alerted to an alleged theft suspect who was driving a stolen Chevy Suburban in the area and then at a gas pump at the BP on South Smithville Road.

Officers were familiar with this vehicle from the day before when it fled from them, so they positioned their vehicles around it.

Police say the driver of the vehicle, later identified as Angelo Locurto, 22, heard police sirens and entered the stolen vehicle and tried to flee, ramming police vehicles in the process.

The Kettering Police Department says that officers standing by their vehicles were nearly hit, and other officers remained inside their vehicles while they were hit.

Police say Locurto continued to try to leave, when officers approached the vehicle and attempted to arrest him.

Officers say he refused to comply with their demands, so they broke the driver's side window, deployed a taser, and removed Locurto from the vehicle to arrest him.

Police say that during this, a gun was on the driver's seat in the car, which police later determined to be stolen.

Police say they also found suspected narcotics in the car, though the evidence has been sent to the laboratory to be inspected.

Locurto was charged with the following:

• Grand Theft of a Motor Vehicle
• Two counts of Obstructing Official Business
• Failure to Comply
• Failure to Comply
• Three counts of Assault on a Police Officer
• Having Weapons Under Disability
• Improper Handling of a Firearm in a Motor Vehicle
• Receiving Stolen Property

Locurto pleaded guilty on October 6 to the following charges:

• Grand Theft
• Failure to Comply
• Failure to Comply
• Assault on a Police Officer
• Receiving Stolen Property
• Receiving Stolen Property

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Cambridge, MA - Body camera video shows a man getting out of his car and pointing a gun at police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in August before officers shot and killed him. Following an inquest, a judge ruled the officer's actions were justified.

Half a dozen shots rang out in Cambridge on Friday, Aug. 21, leaving 64-year-old William Woodworth dead. The police shooting prompted an investigation by the state.

Cambridge police were responding to a call for an idling car in a parking lot on Temple Street, when an interaction with one of the people involved turned deadly in less than 60 seconds.

Two officers were speaking with a man and woman while Officer Donald Conrad approached the driver in the car, later identified as Woodworth.

Conrad told state investigators in recorded interviews that this area is known for illegal drug activity.

"I saw the smoke coming out of the car as soon as he rolled down the windows. I say something to the extent of you can't be smoking crack in here," Conrad said. "I asked Mr. Woodworth if he could step out of the car and he kind of blows me off a little bit and I reiterate to do me a favor and step out of the car."

Body camera video released on Friday by the Middlesex district attorney showed Woodworth opening the car door while at the same time he reached under the driver's seat and pulled out a gun. On the driver's side of the car was Conrad's partner.

"And then the person came out the car and there was a firearm in my face," Officer David Kerns recalled. "I just got my hands up as fast as I could. I believe I grabbed like his forearm wrist area and I just … it's weird because time felt like it stood still, but everything was happening so fast."

That's when Conrad fired several shots at Woodworth, and a third officer, James Nestor, fired a round as well.

"At that moment I was concerned that Officer Kerns was going to get shot point-blank. I guess I fell back on training. If there's a life in danger, there was a threat. We had to neutralize the threat in the moment," Nestor said.

"I'm worried he's going to blow my partner's head off. I already told him 'don't do that' or 'drop it.' That was the only de-escalation that was feasible at the moment or else Officer Kerns might not be here right now," Conrad said.

Cambridge police attempted medical aid to Woodworth, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The medical examiner said he died from five gunshot wounds.

Lethal force by Cambridge police was determined to be reasonable and justified by a judge.

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Kalamazoo, MI - Video footage shared moments leading up to a shooting that left a Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s deputy injured, followed by a car chase through three counties in July.

Jaylen Lispey was arraigned on July 20 on 14 counts, including assault with intent to murder, carjacking and disarming an officer. Lipsey appeared in court on Wednesday as his case was bound over to circuit court.

Video captured the struggle that officials say broke out between Lipsey and Deputy Kaleb Mortimer.

Deputies were called around 8:50 a.m. on July 17 for a report of a theft from a vehicle in progress on East AB Avenue, northwest of Richland.

Video appears to show Mortimer driving up to a discarded bike in the middle of the road and then finding a man running alongside the street. That man would later be identified by police as Lipsey.

Mortimer tells Lipsey to stop repeatedly.

“I’m not breaking the law bro. I don’t have to stop,” Lipsey can be heard saying in the video.

The deputy then gets out of the cruiser with a taser in hand, telling Lipsey to stop again.

Lipsey can then be heard saying “come on, man” and runs from the deputy. Lipsey then stopped as Mortimer ordered him to the ground.

“One at taser point” Mortimer can be heard saying into his radio as he proceeds to handcuff Lipsey.

“Why are you being a [expletive] to me, bro?” Lipsey said repeatedly.

He then began calling for help as Mortimer struggled to get a hold of the man’s free arm.

The two began to struggle further.

“I was giving you my other hand, [expletive],” Lipsey said, before bodycam footage was redacted for ten minutes.

Police say in court records that Lipsey overpowered Mortimer and reached for his gun. The gun was fired amid the struggle, hitting Mortimer in the inner thigh. Police say Lipsey stepped back and attempted to shoot the deputy in the head, but the gun malfunctioned.

Dash cam video redacted the start of the altercation. 10 seconds later, Lipsey skipped towards the cruiser and tossed the gun.

Moments later, dash cam video showed the cruiser speeding away with the deputy left at the side of the road. A call that an officer had been shot could be heard through the radio in the cruiser as the vehicle starts driving through Barry and Allegan counties.

Video appears to show Lipsey swerving between vehicles.

“Police cruiser has been stolen,” can be heard over the radio in the dash camera video. Radio chatter can be heard authorizing Michigan State Police troopers and Kalamazoo County deputies to chase after the vehicle as it makes its way down westbound M-89.

Video appears to show Lipsey speeding down the center line as he approached Downtown Plainwell. Traveling down 10th Street and Douglas Avenue, the cruiser narrowly missed a partial roadblock in Cooper Township

The cruiser appeared to dodge a spike strip twice as the chase entered Kalamazoo Township. The vehicle then turned onto the US-131 business loop. Lipsey appeared to drive onto West Main, swerving past police and civilian vehicles heading towards downtown.

At one point, Lipsey almost hit a Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Officer opening their cruiser door. The cruiser drove into the wrong lane of traffic at times and misses another spike strip near Downtown Kalamazoo at the intersection of W. Michigan Avenue and N. Westnedge Avenue.

The chase continued through side streets and business parking lots, but as the cruiser turned onto Lake Street, a deputy hit the cruiser, pushing it towards a white van.

Court documents said Lipsey did not get out of the car and had to be removed by force.

Mortimer was later released from the hospital following the shooting. Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office did not respond by the deadline to an inquiry about his current work status with the agency.

Lipsey is expected back in court later this month for a pre-trial hearing.