Body camera video was released Thursday showing the standoff before a deadly encounter with Paterson Police. DBrennanTV walks us through the video, but we want to warn you, some of it is disturbing.
He would vary between promising to surrender to saying he would die in the bathroom and take officers with him.
Seabrooks would occasionally open the door, and at one point, he threw an unknown liquid at an officer."He's putting alcohol on the fire," someone can be heard saying. The report from the Attorney General says officers used 15 non-lethal projectiles to try to stop Seabrooks, but they were not effective on him."You're bleeding yourself out. I need you to put the knife on the floor," an officer said.
The Attorney General says the standoff finally came to an end when Seabrooks lunged towards the officers with a knife in his hand and they opened fire.The Attorney General says officers gave aid at the scene. Seabrooks was pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital a short time later."We need to have an assistance crisis team that is not armed and trained to kill," Zellie Thomas, with Black Lives Matter, Paterson, said at a rally on March 7.
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