Police shot and killed 33-year-old Christian Emile in East Flatbush on Mother’s Day. The videos show he wielded a gun while fleeing officers.
The New York attorney general's office on Thursday released security camera footage and body-worn camera video of the fatal police shooting of an armed man in Brooklyn on Mother’s Day., released by the Office of Special Investigations, show the chaotic final minutes of 33-year-old Christian Emile’s life. He was gunned down by police around 1 a.m. on May 12, on a sidewalk at East 52nd Street and Church Avenue in East Flatbush.
In the video footage, Emile falls to the ground, stands up and continues running from police down the sidewalk. At the 4:54 minute-mark, Emile’s right arm – with a gun in hand – swings behind him in the direction of the officers. The video shows police firing their weapons. “The male got back up, he still had the gun in his hand," Maddrey said. "He runs back on the sidewalk. The officers give further commands to the male to drop the gun and they fire their weapons.”
Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University and former prosecutor, commenting ahead of the release of the videos, said a fleeing armed suspect would constitute an “immediate, direct threat” against whom the use of deadly force would be justified. The officers involved were Sergeant Kyle Sforza, Officer Brian Mejia-Morel and Officer Alexander Campos, Kaishian said. The NYPD did not respond to questions seeking any additional information about the officers.
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