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The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office has released police body camera footage (above) of the February 2016 police shooting of a 17-year-old boy Abdullahi “Abdi” Mohamed. According to the District Attorney’s Office’s findings from the officer-involved critical incident investigation, two Salt Lake City officers were investigating a report of a stolen cellphone when they saw what looked like a person hitting another person with “a long slender object like a pipe or a pole.” As officers got closer, they saw it appeared to be two males holding long, metal objects “at least one of whom was hitting a man with the pipe or pole,” the officer-involved critical incident report said. Police commanded them both to stop and drop their weapons, but Mohamed is accused of ignoring the officers’ commands and continuing to pursue the alleged victim.
“The officers ordered the suspect to “drop it†and “put it down†several times but the suspect did not. Instead, the suspect took another step towards the victim and started to raise the metallic object higher. The suspect turned his head and looked towards the police officers. At that instant, [the officers] fired their handguns at the suspect, hitting him. The suspect was transported to the hospital and survived his injuries,” the officer-involved critical incident report said. Prosecutors allege Mohamed was beating a man over $1.10 while dealing drugs in the Rio Grande neighborhood. After ruling the shooting justified, District Attorney Sim Gill filed criminal charges against Mohamed for the beating. Prosecutors accused Mohamed of dealing meth in the neighborhood. On Monday, a judge ruled there was enough probable cause to bind Mohamed over for a trial.
The video clips of the shooting were ordered released after a unanimous vote by the Utah State Records Committee. “They’re very important for the public to see. The public needs to make up their own mind about what happened and the behavior of the officers,” American Civil Liberties Union attorney Leah Farrell said. In a statement issued Monday, the Salt Lake City Police Department said they support the DA’s Office’s decision to release the video, along with the DA’s Office’s findings that the shooting was justified. “Although we will not speak about the specifics of the video at this time, we stand by the officers involved as well as the OICI investigation that was completed.
The video released today was an important part of the investigation, it should be noted that there were numerous other factors that were part of the investigation to include many interviews with witnesses and others involved in the incident as well as evidence gathered at the scene,” the statement said. “It is important to remember that the investigation needs to consider ALL the evidence and we believe that this occurred in this detailed investigation. We believe that questions about this specific case can be answered by the letter District Attorney Sim Gill issued regarding this incident.”
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Fuck da police
Wow, this place is filth AF. I had to double clutch to see if its San Francisco. But to my surprise, it's freaking Salt Lake City, gosh.
Amazing how when gangs smoke these guys in the middle of the projects. No one snitches and they even pick up the shell casing to fuck with the detectives. This…they have a problem with. The true petulant children of all the races on the planet.
Only the innocent homeless man did everything right – remained on the ground, showed his hands.
The only way americans police can de-escalate situation is by killing the person
Good police work!
Is it just me, or did it look like there were people LIVING on the sidewalks?
Shot DEAD for Holding a Stick…
Stupid zombies ^)
The mob is getting worse….
Next time aim to the leg at least, i know he is a piece of junk, but still.
There was no reason to shoot that guy walking away, whatever incident that was taking place was over, just because he did not drop the pipe in time, you shoot the guy twice, he was not coming towards you or anything. Time to fire this cop, take away his badge and try him for murder. What the hell was he doing out there? Then not to offer any medical help for so long while a bunch of pigs walk around doing nothing for god knows how long, moving the body, touching the body, can't believe they did not put hand cuffs on the dead boy, like they were yelling to do. Screwed up situation. No empathy POS
He got a $500 fine. At the time of this sentence I believe he was charged with some other crimes as well (but not necessarily from that incident). I think he is permanently paralyzed.
kill the Terrorist, (Cops) For world Peace, Not Before until then, you will be killed. YOU, who watch this
2:00 they be like looking to see what he’s got that they can halfinche 😬
Haha they shot him because he wasn’t Mormon 😂🤣
Scary neighborhoods damn
Why a police officer don't shot suspect in the legs so they survive and be judge by a judge not by a police who takes life's away every single day
Abdullahi Mohamed? When did SLC become infested with that shit?
Trash got shot.
Well done!! 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000!
Damn, he survived.
BLACK MUSLIM? how can that go wrong??
Surrounded by the walking dead too, real life horror.
A day without screaming blacks at a crime scene is like a day without sunshine.
Only the innocent homeless man did everything right – remained on the ground, showed his hands.