Posted May 15, 2018 9:00 am by Comments

By Tactical-Life

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A Texas police officer has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a man who charged at him with a knife. The body cam footage of the incident can be seen above.

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According to a Denton Police Department press release, Officer John Landolfo and his trainee, Officer Je’Ni Nelson, were parked in their patrol vehicle on Feb. 19 when a man walked up from the back and started yelling at them. The officers got out of the vehicle and started to approach the man, who pulled out a knife. He then threatened them with the knife and started to walk toward a wooded area.

Both officers followed the suspect, ordering him multiple times to stop and drop the knife. The man ignored their commands. Instead, he disappeared further into the wooded area.

Landolfo’s body cam footage shows him chase after the man. Suddenly the man comes out of the woods and starts wildly swinging the knife. Landolfo fires his Taser X2 to stop the man from advancing. The man falls to the ground, but he quickly gets …Read the Rest

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