Police in Louisville, Kentucky, shot dead a suspect who had thrown knives at officers during a standoff in a house on North 42nd Street in the early hours of April 26.
A police spokesperson told a press conference that police received calls for help on the night on April 25 after a man was reported smashing windows in the neighborhood. When two officers arrived on scene, the suspect was in a house setting a fire and threw a knife, striking one of the officers in the leg. The suspect was shot dead by the second officer after an ambulance was called.
Bodycam footage, released by Louisville Metro Police Department, shows the officers arrive as a man runs up to them shouting “there’s a burglar in my house.” The first officer enters the house, which appears to be ransacked, before retreating in pain, saying “he threw a knife at me.”
The second officer’s bodycam footage shows him shooting the suspect from the doorway of the house after asking the suspect to show his hands.
A police spokesperson said that the department welcomed the “challenging and difficult conversations” that being transparent and releasing footage of shootings can provoke and that a new course of deescalation training had been developed and would be implemented later in the year. Credit: Louisville Metro Police Department via Storyful
