VIDEO: Naked Man Killed After Charging at Richmond Police Officer

By Tactical-Life

Newly-released body camera footage shows that a Richmond Police Department officer in Virginia was justified in fatally shooting a 24-year-old high school biology teacher named Marcus-David Peters. Watch the encounter above.

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The Shooting

At around 5:30 p.m. on Monday, May 14, RPD Officer Michael Nyantakyi was on patrol when he saw Peters driving a sedan that hit another vehicle at an intersection. Peters quickly sped from the scene. Nyantakyi gave chase northbound and onto the I-95 on-ramp, the RPD press release says.

Peters hit two other cars on the on-ramp and lost control of his car. His vehicle disabled, Peters got out of his car and ran into the northbound lanes of I-95. He was completely naked. In the body cam footage, he appears to be struck by one of the passing vehicles. After rolling around on the ground for a few seconds, he suddenly gets up and starts walking toward Nyantakyi, who by this point had pulled out a Taser.

“Put that Taser down or I’ll kill you,” Peters can clearly be heard saying.

Nyantakyi deploys the Taser, but it has …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life