Surveillance footage captured the confrontation between a man and a veteran officer inside the Harbor Division station in San Pedro, Los Angeles.
The desk officer is seen approaching the man by the doors and moments after a verbal confrontation, the man is seen coming at the officer and taking a swing at him. As the officer backs up, the man throws another punch.The officer is knocked to the ground with a blow and some items appear to spill from his belt onto the lobby floor. The pair are seen locked in a struggle on the floor, but the assailant then manages to wrestle the officer's gun from him.
At this point, the man aims the gun again at the officers chest and throat, but then he heads for the station's doors. She rushes towards the door and stops to briefly draw her gun, but is then forced to dive for cover as the suspect appears to fire at her. A third officer is seen arriving in the lobby with his gun drawn as the video ends.that the suspect repeatedly pulled the trigger, but a safety mechanism had prevented the gun from firing."The officer would have been dead if it had not," said one LAPD official familiar with the investigation.
During a news conference early Sunday, Moore said a watch commander exchanged gunfire with the suspect but did not hit him.
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