4 Houston police officers involved in a fatal shooting are shot

Officials said four Houston police officers shot an apparently emotionally disturbed man who was lying on the ground, injured and incapacitated, before firing 21 final rounds.

Police Chief Art Acevedo showed a video of the body camera, which was subsequently posted, and announced the administration's findings in the April 21 shooting of a 27-year-old man Nicholas Chavez.

Acevedo said Thursday that Chávez was incapacitated by numerous Taser cartridges, beanbags and three bullets before the four officers fired - after he had fallen - a total of 21 rounds in the final moments of the 15-minute standoff.

Before the final explosion of the shooting, Chávez was seen in a videotape crawling and pulling wires connected to police electrical nails. He heard an officer say, "Don't do that." Shooting broke out while he was holding the latch in his hand.

Acevedo said that the two cartridges in the stun was discharged.

The president, who spoke hours after the police union was convicted of terminating work, said officers were returning to work.

Acevedo said that even after repeated verbal warnings, and the use of numerous soft shells and stun guns, Chávez was still "armed with a metal object and began to move rapidly toward" the officer who fired the first two shots.

But he described the barrage of gunfire in the end as unreasonable.

Chicago Police said officers shot a man with a knife after failing to give him electric shocks.

"The firing of those 21 shots by these four members is not objectively reasonable," Acevedo said. "I don't take it objectively to make sense; the chain of command does not make them objectively logical and I think anyone who watches this ... will see that they have a lot of opportunities and a lot of other options readily available to them."

"You cannot shoot someone 21 times because at that time, when we fired those 21 shots, Mr. Chavez was in the most vulnerable way," he added.

The incident began with several 911 calls about an apparently emotionally disturbed man who jumped in front of cars and entered the backyards.

Acevedo said toxicology tests revealed methamphetamine, amphetamine and ethanol in his system when he died.

Adjusted body camera footage showed the officers, and at first they repeatedly asked the man to surrender.

He heard an officer say, "Hey, dude, we're here to help you, man."

Acevedo said that Chávez was hit by several Taser cartridges and beanbags, in addition to three bullets - the ministry deemed "objectively reasonable" based on the totality of the circumstances and facts in this case before the final explosion of the shooting.

"In this case, I concluded that there was no imminent threat to any police officer, and they would have gone home with their families," Mayor Sylvester Turner told reporters, adding that the shooting did not amount to an indictment. Against 5,300 people. . Officers Department.

However, the Houston Police Officers Union detonated an attack on Acevedo hours before the mayor and Turner announced the administration's results.

Syndicate officials said that the confrontation lasted about 15 minutes, during which the officers tried to calm the incident by retreating, releasing bean bags and using electric detonators at the man, before resorting to lethal force when the stun gun was aimed at them.