WATCH: Louisville Police Kill Knife-Throwing Suspect, Prevent House Fire

By Tactical-Life

Warning: The above video features graphic language.

Louisville police officers fatally shot a man who threw a knife at them and started a fire inside his family’s home. Check out the intense body camera footage of the encounter above.

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According to WLKY, the incident went down at around 10 p.m. when officers responded to a call involving 42-year-old Isaac Jackson, who showed up at his family’s residence and started breaking windows.

Tim Brown, Jackson’s brother-in-law, told WDRB that Jackson “showed up at the house…and was threatening my mother-in-law, father-in-law and brother-in-law, and they were trying to calm him down.”

Officers arrived at the scene and talked to Jackson’s family members. While they did this, Jackson set a fire inside the home. The officers moved in. Upon gaining entry, Jackson threw a knife at Officer DeGerald Watson-Morton, hitting him in the leg. The initial part of the video above shows Watson-Morton’s perspective. He was eventually taken to an area hospital for a minor leg injury.

The video then switches to Officer Brendan Kaiser’s body camera. It shows him open up …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life