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Recording of the police operation in Dortmund
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In Dortmund, another police operation ended fatally.
A spokesman for the investigators confirmed that a taser had been triggered during the operation.
According to a statement, the officials arrived in the Dorstfeld district early on Wednesday morning because a man is said to have rioted.
He resisted and then became “resuscitation-required”.
The emergency services immediately started resuscitation and alerted the emergency doctor.
The man died in the hospital at 6:18 a.m.
It is unclear whether and how the use of the so-called distance electric impulse device is linked to the death of the man.
A spokesman said on request that it was not known whether the officer had hit the target.
The stun gun was a major topic of discussion during the coalition negotiations in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The CDU and the Greens finally agreed to continue testing the devices until 2024 and to connect them to a body cam.
For the Dortmund police, it is the second fatal operation within a few weeks.
On August 8, a 16-year-old refugee from Senegal was shot dead by a police officer in Dortmund.
In this case, the public prosecutor's office is investigating five officers.
According to the state of the investigation known so far, an officer is said to have shot the youth six times with a submachine gun.
The 16-year-old died in hospital after being hit by four projectiles.
The critical question is whether and how the youth approached the officers with a knife.
The officials are being investigated for bodily harm resulting in death in office, incitement to it or aiding and abetting.
After the crime, there were several demonstrations against police violence in Dortmund.
Among other things, it was criticized that no officer had switched on a body camera and that there was no video material of the event.
The investigating chief public prosecutor, Carsten Dombert, had already questioned the proportionality of the operation in the past.
Interior Minister Herbert Reul had also expressed doubts about the correct course of the police operation.
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