Body camera footage released Thursday shows Denver police officers shooting dozens of times at a man who fled after police said he pulled a gun. The man died later at a hospital.
On June 23, Denver Public School patrol officers and Denver Police officers responded to a 911 call about two people hanging out in front of Kepner Beacon Middle School.
Body camera footage provided by the Denver Police Department on Thursday showed an officer asking the man and woman by the school for their names and date of birth.
An officer runs their information through their system and walks back to the man and woman.
The man asks if he can leave, and the officer says he cannot.
“I’ve got to talk to you, man, I’m sorry,” the officer said in the video. “We’ve got to do the whole thing.”
The man backs up, turns to run and appears to grab something out of a bag he’s carrying.
The officers in the video warn the man not to do that and to “drop the gun.”
Officers chase the man, telling him to drop his weapon. It’s unclear from the video who fired first, but gunshot sounds ring out.
Police said the fleeing man fired at them first and that two Denver police officers and one DPS officer shot back, striking the man. The video shows police firing dozens of shots at the man. The man is out of view while fleeing, so it’s not clear if or how many times he fired at police. Officers approach the body of the man who is sprawled out on the ground, telling him to drop the gun. The man does not appear to be moving.
Paramedics took the man, who was identified as 46-year-old Brian Allen by the medical examiner, to a hospital, where he died from his injuries, police said.
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