El Cajon police distributed video Friday showing officers fatally shooting Alfred Olango Tuesday after responding to a call about someone who was acting erratically.
Police released video Friday that showed an officer fatally shooting an unarmed black man earlier this week in El Cajon, California.
El Cajon Police Chief Jeff Davis released the video Friday afternoon during a news conference. The video shows Alfred Olango walking quickly around a parking lot. Two officers can then be seen arriving, and moments later shots are heard and Olango falls to the ground.
The video was taken from a fast food restaurant's surveillance camera, and from a witness who was recording on a cell phone.
Davis said the decision to release the video was made with San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and other police officials as a means to alleviate what have been outbursts of violent protests.
"Our goal today is to clarify and hopefully calm the community's concerns," Davis said, adding that officials decided to release the video "based on our collective concern for public safety in the community."
Police killed Olango Tuesday while responding to a call about someone who was acting erratically and possibly mentally unstable. Officers — who were not members of El Cajon's specialized Psychiatric Emergency Response Team — arrived at the scene about 2:10 p.m. and opened fire about within about a minute.
Olango was unarmed at the time of his death. Police have said he was holding a vape device and “placed both hands together on it and extended it towards the officers” before taking a "shooting stance."
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