WATCH: Albuquerque Police Shoot Man Armed With Knife & Pipe

By Tactical-Life

The Albuquerque Police Department has released a body cam video showing four of its officers fatally shooting a man wielding a knife and a metal pipe inside a vacant apartment earlier this month. Watch the tense, graphic footage above.

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According to the Albuquerque Journal, it all began to unfold when an apartment manager called the police on the night of Jan. 7 after he saw somebody breaking into one of his vacant units. Police arrived and tried for over an hour to get the intruder to exit the apartment with his hands up. The video starts at the tail-end of that process.

When the suspect fails to comply, officers are shown kicking in the locked front door and entering the apartment. They carefully clear various rooms and closets until they come to a bedroom located in the very back of the residence.

The officers enter the bedroom, and suddenly a man bursts out of the closet in the corner, wildly swinging a metal pipe and a three-inch knife. One of the officers deploys a taser, which doesn’t seem to …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life