Video shows police shooting of armed man at Mesa College; suspect shoots, kills police dog [Breaking]
Video released Thursday shows a confrontation last week between San Diego police and a man with a gun on the Mesa College campus — an incident that came to a head when one of the officers shot the man, who then shot a police dog.Officer Addam Ansari fired a rifle at Benjamin Pickens, 33, fatally wounding him during the Aug. 2 incident on the college campus in San Diego’s Clairemont neighborhood, police said. Police said Pickens pointed his gun toward officers before Ansari fired his weapon.
Investigators said last week that Ansari shot Pickens after the gunman shot the police dog, but the video appears to indicate that the the officer fired first after Pickens pointed his gun at officers. “I drove away from them” the man tells dispatchers in the audio clip. “They got out of the car and just started shooting.”
According to the department, Pickens drives away from the officers and onto the Mesa College campus. He crashes the Tesla into a center divider on Armstrong Circle and runs away from the vehicle. Ansari lays down on his stomach behind a police vehicle. His rifle is drawn, the video shows. The footage goes black because the officer’s front-facing camera now being pointed at the ground.Police can be heard in the video saying that Pickens, who is talking on a cellphone, is gesturing multiple times as if he’s reaching for something tucked underneath his arm.In text displayed in the video, police say Pickens ignores multiple commands from officers, then walks toward a parking lot.
Pickens falls to the ground after being hit once in the chest, according to the Police Department. A second police dog is released to pull Pickens away from his nearby handgun.According to the video, Pickens is taken to a hospital, and the dog is rushed to a veterinary hospital.Ansari has been employed by the San Diego Police Department for 11 years. He is assigned as a patrol officer in the Western Division.
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