COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Officers conducting a routine pat-down of a man in a hospital emergency room found a gun in his waistband, spurring a struggle over the weapon and a standoff that ended in officers killing him, according to police body camera footage released Wednesday.
Officers had been searching Miles Jackson, a Black man, at the hospital Monday in preparation for a custody exchange over warrants he had out for his arrest. Jackson began to struggle with the two officers after one of them felt the gun, video showed.
One of the officers used a stun gun on Jackson after they fell to the floor, while the other attempted to pull Jackson’s hands away from his waistband. A shot can then be heard in the video, apparently from the gun in Jackson’s waistband.
Whish I could identify that gun, so I know to stay away from it..
A bigger bunch of gutless cowards you will never see.
If he had been properly searched when he was first picked up things might have gone differently. And shoot outs in an ER aren’t a new thing.
What a colossal cluster fck. That gun jam would have been fatal for the officer in a gunfight. The perp was down and bleeding out, could have been disarmed but no one wanted to do it, so he died in a hail of gun fire. Training, Training, Training, Not Done Sufficiently. IMO.
Capitalizing ‘black’? WTF?