The Louisville footage shows how brutal policing is in America

How Officer Wilt Shot the Head: A State of the Art and a Challenge for the Laws of the State and the Body-Camera

Americans may not see what police officers heroically rushing into danger are like, but there are images that have emerged recently. Scenes of police brutality have been shown in the police bodycam footage that tends to get the most attention. For example, the release of horrific officer and surveillance footage from the January arrest of Tyre Nichols, who was beaten by Memphis police officers and died later in the hospital, triggered national outrage.

Video of what is effectively a street battle more akin to a foreign war zone than a US city basking in the morning sunshine offers a visceral antidote to the collective national shoulder shrug that often follows gun massacres.

Police said that Wilt was shot in the head as he ran toward the officers who were already on the scene. Before he is shot, the released version of his footage cuts off.

Humphrey said that you can get a sense of the stress those officers are going through in the body cam footage. (The) response wasn’t perfect, but it was exactly the response we needed.”

It is a sad and brutal aspect of law enforcement in America. Officer Wilt tries to do his job and he is struck down in the course of trying to protect others,” former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday.

Police leaders are frustrated that their officers face risks while the national and state leaders resist changes to gun laws.

Then-Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams told the Senate Judiciary Committee in June 2022, “We are out outgunned, we’re outmanned, we’re out-staffed, we do need responsible gun legislation.”

And Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna told CNN why his officers have to continue to train for active shooter situations. We don’t want it to happen. Statistics show it will happen, he said. We challenge our leaders at a national level, to do more about guns, to do more about mental health, so that we don’t have to do this many times.

There is a reminder in the split screen that heroism and cruelty can be seen in America and that reality is more nuanced than you might think.

Former Philadelphia and Washington, DC, police chief Charles Ramsey told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that authorities had learned about the need to show the public what happened from camera footage as quickly as possible. “I think that things have definitely changed in policing,” he said.

The footage gave a different perspective on the actions of the Louisville shooter, who was live streamed on social media.

The public is absorbing information about how a shooting unfolded that left five people dead in a downtown bank.

Scores of residents and officials gathered to mourn publicly the employees shot to death at Old National Bank by their coworker in downtown Louisville on Monday.

Bank employee Connor Sturgeon, 25, opened fire and killed five colleagues while livestreaming online the bloodshed before a responding officer fatally shot him. Of the eight people who were wounded, a 26-year-old police officer remains in critical condition after being shot in the head, requiring brain surgery.

“Our city is heartbroken,” Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday evening. “These five victims should not be dead – just like everyone else who was killed by gun violence in our city, in our country, should not be dead.”

It’s still not clear what provoked the shooter to go on the deadly rampage. As the investigation continues, officials are expected to release some of the calls to the emergency room.

The vigil will “acknowledge the wounds, physical and emotional, that gun violence leaves behind,” Greenberg told reporters Tuesday. It will be an opportunity for everyone in the community to come together, grieve, and begin to move forward.

Lausville, KY – A bank shooting happened on Monday night a day before the shooter woke up to his attacker, a source told CNN

The massacre took one minute to complete and he stopped to wait for the police to arrive, according to a city official who spoke to CNN.

Nine people – including Eckert, before she died Monday – were hospitalized after the shooting, officials said. Among the eight current survivors, five had been discharged as of Tuesday, a hospital spokesperson said.

The three victims who remained hospitalized Tuesday include Wilt, who underwent brain surgery and was in critical condition, and two others who were in fair condition, the hospital spokesperson said.

At least 146 mass shootings have been reported in the US this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which like CNN defines a mass shooting as four or more people shot not including the shooter.

The shooter, identified by police as 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, had livestreamed the gruesome attack on Instagram – the video has since been taken down.

The gunman then tries to shoot her in the back but fails because the safety is on and the weapon still needs to be loaded, the official said. The official said that if the worker is not careful, the worker will be shot in the back.

The attacker then opened fire on the workers, while they attempted to outrun him. The official said that the shooter doesn’t go to other floors of the bank.

Police arrive about a minute and half later, the official said, at which point a gunfire exchange ensues before police eventually shoot and kill the gunman.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/us/louisville-kentucky-bank-shooting-wednesday/index.html

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Sturgeon had interned at the bank for three summers and been employed there full-time for about two years, his LinkedIn profile showed. A law enforcement source said Monday that the attacker would be fired from the bank.

Police said that the person who was shooting used anAR-15 style rifle. He bought the rifle from a local gun dealer six days prior to the killings, the police chief said Tuesday.

She said that the massacre happened very quickly. As gunfire rang out on her computer screen at the staff meeting, she watched in horror.

A former high school classmate of Sturgeon’s who knew him and his family well said he never saw any “sort of red flag or signal that this could ever happen.”

There are at least eight victims of the Monday shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville. The mayor of the city says it’s absurd and dangerous that the rifle used in the shooting will go back into circulation.

What is the big deal? This isn’t Greenberg’s first encounter with gun violence, nor is he the first public figure to have a personal tie to a mass shooting.

I do think that cities like Louisville that have unique gun violence epidemics, should have the autonomy to figure out what we want to do to reduce gun violence.

With Kentucky law, if an assault rifle that was used to kill five people is used to lay in waiting and shoot at rescuers, it will be back on the streets. Right now Kentucky law requires that guns must be turned over to the state in order to be auctioned off. That is wrong. That is ridiculous. That is dangerous. Hopefully everyone, regardless of political affiliation, agrees that this weapon should never be put on the street again and we can work together to change the law.

I am cautiously optimistic today. First, I know that my friends of all political parties agree that they never want to see harm like this happen ever again, to anyone, whether it’s in Louisville and Kentucky, or anywhere in America or this world. I’m hopeful. Based on the outreach I’ve received over the last 24 hours, I am hopeful that we can sit down and work together and talk about our differences on these issues.

After officials released the horrible moments of a mass shooting that killed five and left eight others wounded, the mayor of Louisville called on the community to come together.

Greenberg noted the heartbreaking impacts of gun violence in his city beyond Monday’s carnage, which unfolded less than a mile from where the vigil was held Wednesday.

There will be time to act. Taking steps in honor of those we have lost and channeling our pain into meaningful action is what we are supposed to do. The mayor stated that the day is coming. To mourn, to lean on each other and support one another.

The mayor’s remarks came just hours after Louisville police released fearful 911 calls reporting the shooting, which began at the bank Monday morning around 8:30 a.m. before it was open.

According to data from the Gun Violence Archive, 14 mass shootings have occurred in the US so far this year, and 9 of them were during the chilling nine minutes of the attack.

A woman who works at a different Old National Bank branch told the operator she saw the massacre happen while on a video call with her colleagues.

I just watched it. I watched it on a team meeting. She said we were having a board meeting. I saw someone on the floor. We heard shots, then people said “Oh my God” and he came into the board room.

She said that her son may be carrying a gun and heading to the Old National in Louisville. This is his mother. I’m so sorry, I’m getting details secondhand. I’m learning about it now. Oh my lord.

The mother called at 8:41 a.m., roughly 10 minutes after the shooter used a legally purchased rifle to carry out the rampage. One law enforcement official told CNN it took him one minute to finish the killings.

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“What I know is, I just wish I’d taken an extra moment, made an extra call, tell him how much I care about him. And I know we are all feeling the same. I know they are listening to us now. And that they know we love them.

The people that were outside of the bank were terrified by the shooting and watched police respond to the scene.

“I’ve been watching him consistently, I haven’t seen a foot or anything moving,” he said, adding, “He went down right away when the bullets started firing.”

A man fled the building, took a shelter at a dental office and called for help. “I just saw a shotgun as he was coming around the corner,” he said. There have been people shot.

Other 911 calls were placed by confused employees who were in the building at the time of the shooting but did not know whether it was safe to escape. The caller said that they were tucked under a desk, and requested the status of the situation.