"Body camera footage shows the moments 28-year-old Royston Bacchus Jr. was approached by police, following a domestic dispute call on Oct. 5. Police say they were called to a home on East 86th Street, where a woman claimed she was being harassed by a man she knew and planned to get a restraining order. That man was identified as Bacchus Jr., who police caught up with a few blocks away. In the video, police are seen chasing him down."
"Officials have released officer body camera video showing the incident that led to a police officer fatally shooting a man in East Flatbush. Body camera footage shows the moments 28-year-old Royston Bacchus Jr. was approached by police, following a domestic dispute call on Oct. 5. Police say they were called to a home on East 86th Street, where a woman claimed she was being harassed by a man she knew and planned to get a restraining order."
Police released officer body camera video showing an incident in East Flatbush in which 28-year-old Royston Bacchus Jr. was fatally shot. Officers responded to a domestic dispute call on Oct. 5 after a woman said she was being harassed and planned to seek a restraining order. Police located Bacchus Jr. a few blocks away and pursued him. In the footage, officers are heard ordering him to drop a gun he held. When he did not drop the weapon, an officer fired one shot. Bacchus Jr. was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
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