Lorenzo Clerkley, an eighth-grader from Oklahoma, did not know he had been shot until he started urinating on himself.
Oklahoma - Lorenzo Clerkley, an eighth grader from Oklahoma, did not know he had been shot until he started urinating on himself. He was laughing, he said, having just come to.
But video of the shooting from Holcomb's body camera, which Lorenzo's lawyer released to The Washington Post as his family prepares to file a lawsuit, may raise questions about the shooting. The footage is another grim entry in the public catalogue of police shootings - a window into an instance that unraveled in fractions of a second, and one that has prompted several interpretations.
He approaches the wooden fence that rings the house's yard, the video shows, and he moves toward one of the many holes in it. He waits for a moment, his gun pointed through the gap in the fence. Someone appears in the house. Lorenzo describes the story differently. He told The Post that he and some friends had planned to play basketball that day, but rain led them to find an indoor activity. They went to an abandoned house and brought with them airsoft guns, which resemble firearms and shoot small projectiles, typically made from plastic. His lawyer says some of the four or five guns the kids had were BB guns, which are similar.
Holcomb inspects his wounds, finding a bullet hole near his right hip. "You're OK," Holcomb says, putting a hand on his back. "You're not gonna die." "Watching this, I don't see how the officer could have arrived at the conclusion that his life or someone else's life was in danger," she said. "He asks the teenager to drop his hands and show the gun. And then immediately he shoots. There's no time lapse between 'Show me the gun; drop your hands,' and then he fires. . . . He's already pushing the trigger.
Lorenzo's mother, Cherelle Lee, said detectives invited her to police headquarters to show her the video and gave her a copy."It is well established that police officers must give citizens sufficient time to comply with commands before using deadly force," the family said in a statement.
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