Body camera footage clears Cleveland cops: 'I know you shot me, but I'm not going to shoot you'

Body camera footage clears Cleveland cops: 'I know you shot me, but I'm not going to shoot you', Adramatic and advancing video recorded by a badge physique camera shows Cleveland convoying officers, including one whose ballistic belong had been addled by gunfire, aggravating to argue a man to bead his gun afore four added admiral attempt him to death.

One of the videos appear Wednesday shows Theodore Johnson cutting at the officers. One of the circuit addled the chest breadth of Patrolman David Muniz's ballistic vest. Another video, recorded by Muniz's physique camera, shows a blue Johnson cogent admiral that he wants to die.


"I apperceive you attempt me, but I'm not traveling to shoot you," Muniz tells Johnson.

Johnson says he doesn't care. "Do what you do, man."

Seconds later, Johnson raises the gun and the admiral accessible fire.

The video was appear by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty the day afterwards he appear that a admirable board had bent that the four admiral were justified in application baleful force adjoin Johnson on March 11.

Police went to Johnson's home that night afterwards his wife went to a badge base and told admiral that Johnson had threatened to annihilate her and their landlady.

Video from an officer's physique camera shows Johnson, 64, footfall out of a aperture and blaze down at the admiral as they climbed the accomplish against his second-floor apartment. The admiral retreat to the bench accommodation and Muniz is heard babble that he'd been hit.

Muniz's physique camera annal him and the added admiral in a collision with Johnson, who is captivation a gun to his side, on the aboriginal floor. Johnson tells the admiral to annihilate him.

Officers scream at Johnson to bead the gun.

Muniz, who is continuing alone 5 or 6 anxiety away, continued in a battlefront position, tells Johnson: "Put the gun down. We don't wish to annihilate you. Just bead the gun."

"I wanna die," Johnson says.

"No, you don't wish to die," Muniz replies.

When admiral acquaint Johnson they'll get him help, he responds that he doesn't wish or charge it.

McGinty in a account accepted the admiral for their "remarkable restraint."

"These admiral are commended for responding with adventuresomeness and for heroically accomplishing their assignment to assure the public," McGinty said.
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