As I said in another post this was stupid and avoidable.


http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=12546867&mesg_id=12546867&page=#12550579


Security camera footage of the theft

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q2n3o1EowI&list=UUBzLTcsoKJZOox0APfW8g1g


Audio of dispatch and 911 in the link

On Tuesday, two officers from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department shot and killed Kajieme Powell, who was 25 years old.

Powell was suspected of shoplifting energy drinks and donuts from a convenience store. The shop owner, believing that Powell was carrying a weapon, contacted police. Another witness, Ald. Dionne Flowers, who represents the area and owns a beauty salon in the same block, noticed that Powell was acting erratically and also called police. Flowers told police she saw a second knife, though only one was recovered at the scene.

Powell approached the officers when they arrived, yelling at them to shoot him already. When he ignored commands to drop the knife, the two officers fired a total of 12 shots. Chief Sam Dotson said the knife was like a steak knife.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said it will act with complete transparency. It has released the 911 calls, dispatch audio, video of the shoplifting, as well as cell phone video of the police shooting taken by a witness.

We are posting the audio and video in its entirety but warn you that it contains graphic language and violence.