Newly released body camera footage shows the moments before Salt Lake City police officers fatally opened fire on a man with a pocketknife outside a convenience store on State Street earlier this month.
A Salt Lake City police officer aims his gun at 36-year-old Cameron Ammon Cloward on April 2, 2024, seconds before officers open fire on Cloward, killing him. Cloward, who appears to be holding a pocketknife in the footage, had reportedly threatened to stab a convenience store employee and didn't listen to police commands to drop the knife or get on the ground.
“There’s a guy over here with a knife trying to stab me from the window,” the caller said, according to releasedThe caller locked the store’s door and waited for police to arrive, saying the man — later identified as Cloward — was outside looking at him.officers approach the man Officers continued firing after he fell, the body camera footage shows. Cloward died at the scene, and no one else was injured, police said.
“No further information on this case is being released,” the release state. The Police Department declined to make a spokesperson available for interviews.
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