Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Surveillance video of a Cincinnati officer fatally shooting a knife-wielding robbery suspect shows the man lunging at the officer sitting in the driver’s seat of a police cruiser that had just arrived, then being pulled down onto a sidewalk by a second officer within seconds.
The city released the soundless video Monday after a prosecutor concluded the Sunday morning shooting was justified.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters says 25-year-old Jawari Porter tried to stab the officer with a “folding lock-blade-style knife.”
The police chief and mayor say officer Anthony Brucato had no choice but to shoot.
Deters says Brucato and his fellow officer were wearing bulletproof vests. Brucato suffered a forearm abrasion.
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