Forty minutes. A crisis negotiator. A behavioral therapist. Two languages. Every de-escalation tool a department has. And it still ends in gunfire. Here's why.
A shots-fired call. A three-hour standoff. And an entry up a stairway that ends with a detective shot in the leg and the suspect dead. Here's what happened, and why the stairway is the whole story.
An officer pulls up on a disturbance call. Before he's even out of the car, he hears a gunshot from inside. Then a man comes out the door holding a gun. Ten seconds later, that man is dead in the parking lot.
Eight officer-involved shootings. One sitting. If you missed the stream, here's what went down, case by case, with timestamps so you can jump straight to whichever one you want to watch.
A Madison officer shot and killed a man Wednesday after the man pulled a knife and injured him during a struggle. The video below is raw cellphone footage — Madison PD doesn't equip its officers with body cameras, so there's no footage from the officer's perspective.
Meriden Police released body camera and additional camera footage Tuesday from a fatal officer-involved shooting on Sagamore Road.
Officers responded around 10 a.m. Sunday, July...
