[VIDEO] Police officer shoots man armed with machete but he keeps coming!

by The Right Scoop

This is the nightmare scenario for an LAPD officer who tries unsuccessfully to stop a man with a machete:

In this video you’ll see a man running with a machete in Hollywood when he’s engaged by a police officer. The man turns around and begins charging the officer, at which point the officer fires off what sounds like six rounds. The man keeps charging and the officer is forced to turn and run as he fires off a couple more behind him as he runs. The officer trips and falls to the ground and we see the man raise the machete over the officer’s body before the video cuts out.

What you may not have noticed at the very end of the video was two other officers about to open fire on the man with the machete. Here’s a photo:

The other officers shot and killed the suspect before he could harm the officer who had fallen.

The man was apparently on a crime spree, which included a carjacking in a Chick-fil-A drive thru:

After being confronted by the LAPD, a man proceeded to drive away and then ram a police car. He then gets out of the vehicle and starts running on the street, with officers right there. Where this video ends is where the video above begins and you already know how it ended.

Here’s the full story from CBSLA:

HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) – A man wielding a machete was shot and killed by Los Angeles police after going on a crime spree in Hollywood Monday morning in which he robbed an auto shop, carjacked a vehicle and then crashed into several police cruisers.

The ordeal began at around 11:30 a.m., when the suspect entered an auto parts store at Highland Avenue, near Sunset Boulevard, and robbed it while armed with a machete.

“That knife has been declared to be a machete, large in length, about a foot to a foot-and-a-half in length with the blade,” LAPD Lt. Chris Ramirez said at a Monday afternoon news conference.

Cell phone video showed the suspect then ran to a nearby Chick-fil-A, where he carjacked a vehicle that was sitting in the drive thru. With officers surrounding the car, he somehow sped out into the street and immediately slammed into two police vehicles at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue.

He then ran from the crash, still holding the machete, with officers giving chase. Officer initially used “less-lethal options” to try and subdue the man, Ramirez explained, but eventually were forced to open fire on him in the 1400 block of McCadden Place. He was rushed to a hospital, where he died. His identity was not released.

“That suspect was struck, fell to the ground and was then taken into custody,” Ramirez said. “He was then transported to a local hospital for medical treatment where he has since been declared deceased.”

An LAPD officer suffered “minor scrapes and abrasions” during the incident. The driver who was carjacked was not hurt.

I’m not sure what the less than lethal options were that Ramirez is referencing. It appeared that the officer above shot the suspect six to eight times, but perhaps those weren’t as lethal as they sounded?

In any event, I’m very glad the other officers came in to save the day and take the suspect down. It just goes to show you just how dangerous situations like these can escalate and quickly put the officer’s life in grave danger.


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