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Trenton, New Jersey — The Attorney General’s Office released video recordings from officer body-worn cameras and a Taser camera related to the shooting on August 21, 2020 in Asbury Park, N.J., in which a police officer fatally shot Hasani Best, 39, of Asbury Park. The shooting remains under investigation by the Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability. However, the recordings are being released pursuant to Attorney General Directive 2019-4, the “Independent Prosecutor Directive,†which governs use-of-force investigations in New Jersey and requires that such records, if requested, be released to the public once the initial phase of the investigation is substantially complete. Today investigators met with relatives of Mr. Best to review the 911 call and the video recordings from the body-worn cameras and Taser camera.
According to the preliminary investigation, multiple officers of the Asbury Park Police Department responded shortly after 9 p.m. on Aug. 21, 2020 to a report of a loud domestic dispute inside a two-family residence in the 900 block of 4th Avenue in Asbury Park. When police arrived, the man and woman involved in the dispute were at the residence. The woman was outside, and the man, later identified as Hasani Best, barricaded himself inside the upstairs apartment. Monmouth County sheriff’s officers arrived to assist the Asbury Park police officers. Officers tried to negotiate with Mr. Best through the door of the apartment in an effort to end the standoff. During the incident, Mr. Best opened the door at various times, revealing that he was armed with a knife. Mr. Best continued to hold the knife despite repeated requests from the police to drop the knife.
Officers attempted to use a Taser, but it was not effective. Mr. Best remained armed with the knife, and at approximately 10:10 p.m., an Asbury Park officer shot and fatally wounded him. Officers and EMS rendered medical aid, and EMS transported Mr. Best to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, N.J., where he was pronounced dead at 10:31 p.m. The identity of the officer who fired at Mr. Best was previously released by the Attorney General’s Office. He is Sgt. Sean DeShader of the Asbury Park Police Department. The investigation is being conducted pursuant to a state law enacted in January 2019 (P.L.2019, c.1), which requires that the Attorney General’s Office conduct investigations of a person’s death that occurs during an encounter with a law enforcement officer acting in the officer’s official capacity or while the decedent is in custody.
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Really YouTube? I have to say 4 times that I confirm viewing this?
MAN HE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO THEM 😇 THEY WERE REALLY JOKING WITH HIM 😞 THATS SAD 😞
Timing of firing the shoots is more than questionable
"You know I'm funny bitch!" sounds like Dave Chapelle ong
At the the top of the charts here's 'Put the Knife Down' by the Police.
So that's what became of Ernest T's son!
Get with the program youtube, of course I know there's going to be death and mayhem, why the fuck else would I be here!
This one's a bad shoot imo. Did guy live?
Confirm confirm confirm confirm. Yes I want to see this YT
Cop didn’t like being disrespected with a threat so he shot him
He's wearing a covid mask 🙂
Bass or best?
Put the knife down from law enforcement is not a suggestion
It is a life or death time for suspects to do or risk afterlife visitation !!
The wicked convinced the defund the cop crowd that their cop hatred shields
fools from obeying police commands
Bad shooting
I just had to verify 4 times. This is gonna be a good one
don't joke with cops
Great officers
5:40
1:02 for a split second the dude with the shield looked like Sylvester Stallone.
Dammmmm
Deshaider sounds almost exactly like Denzel Washington
No pepper spray while standing there. No taser. Just lead.
Yes i agree, the suspect is acting stupid and should have dropped the knife, but police officers can avoid killing the suspect by shooting the suspect in the legs or perhaps hands, or shooting 1 short in his body perhaps, but unloading the gun on a person with a knife, or shooting the suspect in the head or upper chest is not necessary especially the suspect has only a knife, and there are many officers around, just my opinion.
Obviously the dude didn't comply but he didn't go towards the cops or anything… I think he would have put it down eventually. Really sad.
Well thank goodness he was wearing a mask.
anyone else die when they heard the Seth Rogan laugh?
What’s with cops having tattoos these days? It looks like shit.
Why this man get shot? It's not like he had a knife
Get a haircut and I'll come out… he came out alright.
Tasers never work… pointless
Is the shield cop that one always on live PD?
They could've made a good comedy duo, shame really……
That cop needs to learn how to tase
Canadia? 😂
It was all casual until he threatened to hurt his brother. That ended real quickly after those words slipped out.
Sorry, what were you gonna do? You were gonna stab who?
Put the phone down, please eh*
Still not sure why that officer needed to shoot him twice in the chest. I don't appreciate threats either, but he didn't make an aggressive motion and no other officer felt the need to fire, so…?
Beyond unnecessary; why are US police officers so undertrained?
Suspect: how many police shootings y’all got
Officer: we had a few
Suspect: you don’t fucking know you asshole 😂😂😂 straight comedy
Ok, why would the officer aim for the head tho ?
Mantap gaes
This could have been avoided if they told him to “put the knife down 
Very smart, huh!