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Fatal Shots: Police body cams not turned on

2022-08-16T08:11:33.421Z


Fatal Shots: Police body cams not turned on Created: 08/16/2022, 10:03 am A policewoman and a policeman with FFP2 masks face each other. © Marijan Murat/dpa/ZB In a deadly police operation in Dortmund, the body cameras of the officers involved were not switched on. The German press agency learned this from investigators. The "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" had previously reported. In case of doubt, the


Fatal Shots: Police body cams not turned on

Created: 08/16/2022, 10:03 am

A policewoman and a policeman with FFP2 masks face each other.

© Marijan Murat/dpa/ZB

In a deadly police operation in Dortmund, the body cameras of the officers involved were not switched on.

The German press agency learned this from investigators.

The "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" had previously reported.

In case of doubt, the cameras on the police officers' vests could have provided more information about the operation in which a 16-year-old Senegalese man was fatally injured by five bullets.

Dortmund – According to investigators, the use of the Dortmund police was initially not suitable for a body cam – since the youth apparently wanted to kill himself with a knife.

When the situation changed and the 16-year-old approached the police officers with the knife, the situation became so stressful for the officers within seconds that nobody thought of the bodycam.

The public prosecutor's office in Dortmund and the uninvolved police in Recklinghausen are currently reconstructing what happened on Monday last week.

According to the investigation so far, the 16-year-old approached the police with a knife despite the use of pepper spray and tasers.

A police officer stationed for security had fired his submachine gun six times, five bullets hit the youth.

He died.

dpa

Source: merkur

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