SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Newly released police video shows the moment when multiple shots were fired at a Somali refugee from short range after the suspect refused to drop a metal stick.
Body camera videos released Monday show two officers running after then-17-year-old Abdullahi “Abdi” Mohamed and yelling at him to drop the metal stick.
The footage shows one officer firing several rounds, Mohamed dropping to the sidewalk and staying on the ground without receiving treatment for at least five minutes.
Mohamed isn’t seen hitting the other man in the police video, but he can be seen walking toward the victim with the stick in his hand despite police calls to drop it.
A separate surveillance video from a nearby building shows someone who appears to be Mohamed repeatedly striking the man with a stick and knocking him off his bike before police stepped in.