Local Texas PD Releases Body Cam Footage of Officer-Involved Shooting (GRAPHIC)

By Tactical-Life

A police department in southeast central Texas has released harrowing body cam footage of an officer-involved shooting that took place last month. Check it out above. Be advised, it contains graphic content.

On the night of Feb. 12, Officer Steven Laughlin of the Bryan Police Department responded to a disturbance call at a home located on the 5300 block of Mallard Drive. When he arrived, he was told by a woman there that her ex-boyfriend, later identified as 33-year-old Calvin Baker, was on her property. Baker was arrested for an incident in December and had an order of protection placed against him to stop him from contacting her, but it had recently expired.

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As Laughlin was talking with the woman, Baker appeared. Laughlin started to approach Baker when suddenly he saw him reach his right hand into his pocket.

Laughlin asked Baker repeatedly asked to see his right hand, but Baker refused, stating, “I ain’t dropping nothing.”

Baker’s bizarre behavior continued, saying things like “Are you ready?”

“Stop saying that man, all I want to do is talk to you man,” Laughlin can be heard saying in the video.

Baker still refused to …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life