Outcry over Utah fatal police shooting captured on camera

[TomSea]

Outcry over Utah fatal police shooting captured on camera
By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press  |  Posted Oct 7th, 2017 @ 9:57pm

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Anti-police brutality groups in Utah are livid after a prosecutor this week determined police were legally justified in a fatal shooting of a black man in August that was captured on body camera video released this week.

While one video appears to show the victim, Patrick Harmon, 50, shot from behind as he ran from police, a slowed-down version shows he pivoted toward officers with a knife, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said Friday.

Officer Clinton Fox told investigators Harmon threatened to stab him before he fired the fatal shots. Body camera video shows Fox shot Harmon at close range after Fox yells, "I'll f....ing shoot you."

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[Applewood]

Why should fringe groups like Black Lives Matter let facts get in the way of a good riot?