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Two Louisville Metro Police officers fatally shot a man on Sunday evening who was holding a screwdriver, according to body camera footage. In the footage released Tuesday, officers Devin Dawes and Matthew Aden can be seen shooting at the man, killing him at the scene. Both men have been with LMPD since 2015. Police responded around 7:45 p.m. Sunday to the 4600 block of Crawford Avenue, off Dixie Highway, where police said a man, 45-year-old Russell Bowman, was acting erratically. In the video, several officers were seen chasing Bowan who was pacing in front of a Pleasure Ridge Park home with a screwdriver in his right hand. Several officers pulled out their firearms asking him to drop the screwdriver. After telling Bowman to drop the screwdriver numerous times, several officers deployed their tasers. They didn’t work. “It ain’t working,” Bowman can be heard screaming in the video. Aden also told Bowman to put down the screwdriver. “Just drop it,” Aden yelled. “We don’t want to hurt you.” Bowman then lunged at Aden. Aden and Dawes shot him numerous times before he hit the ground. Other officers on scene then began rendering aid to him.
LMPD police chief Steve Conrad did not take any questions after the press conference, but he did reinstate the force’s use of deadly force policy. “Police work is a dangerous job that requires difficult split-second decisions that others will judge and scrutinize for a lifetime,” Conrad said. Deadly force is authorized in “defense of oneself or another” when a subject poses “an immediate threat or danger or serious injury to the officer or to another person,” according to LMPD’s standard operating proceedures. Bowman has been homeless several times and was also a former patient at Central State Mental Hospital, according to arrest citations. Most recently, he was arrested in 2017 for taking a metal crowbar to a bunch of business windows. He was arrested on multiple charges ranging from public intoxication and public urination to robbery and disorderly conduct. Both officers Aden and Dawes have received numerous letters of commendation. Both officers work in the third division, which encompasses Auburndale, Fairdale, Iroquois Iroquois Park, Kenwood Hill as well as Pleasure Ridge Park.
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Since when is a screwdriver a dangerous weapon? Can't you just grab his arm before he stabs you? He should be easy to disarm.
Man shot while in route too change reflector on his shopping cart.
man wanted to repair his car with a screwdriver, when the police shot him to death
They could of tazed him again! Smh
He just Wanted to repair your taser man….
Needed to lay off the Sterno……….
Phillip Pentalobe, 32, fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police officers. (Sunday)
'He came at me with a screwdriver' . . . . sorry, no drinking on duty.
A stupid person who can be shot just like that.
Police have warned him several times that he wanted it that way and it was a good thing
If he was Black, this video wouldn't be oh forget it.
wHY diDN't tHeY juST tAZer hIm… Oh… Well they should have used super negotiating techniques to talk the weapon out of his hand and then done a triple round house kick while flying and used their net guns to wrap his feet up and used their martial arts expertise to flip him over and knock him unconscious but in a way that doesn't cause brain damage….
In Canada cops wouldn’t shoot a man with a screwdriver ……… they just kick his ass ……. this is why the police system in the us is fucked … how can’t 4 trained officers take down a guy with a screwdriver ….. smfh
Damn suicide by cop, guess the guy was tired of barely hanging on
Don't take the tool away with a gun. A baton would have worked.
Bazinga!!!!!! one less
Are these tazers deliberately made useless so cops have an excuse to shoot
headddddshot
pretty fucking SURE 100% THAT ONLY 1 or 2 shots was needed! thats overkill you can subdue an old crack head pretty fuckin easy just because he ran at you doesnt mean you have to only take 1 step back and fire a clip at him and murder him. keep a farther distance? shoot 1 or 2 times and back up more? ya know instead of just killing someone when clearly you dont have to……. gotta watch out for those screwdrivers i think it was a mastercraft scary shit thats for sure.
Screw that guy
If you hadn't noticed he was running for the church in the back to confess his sins. He was a good Christian man who was turning his life around until these corrupt/prejudice cops intervened. 🤣
Suspect was all screwy
I find it kind of funny how at 1:17 he says “it ain’t working is it!†When he got tased.😅
I wonder if it was a Phillips or a flathead 🤔
Where did the department get there tasers from, "Fast Eddie's Outlet?"
Freddy New Nightmare got shot
“BUT I NEED TO SCREW SOMETHING!â€
I think some of these people are trying to beat a suicide rap with God, making these cops kill them. Wait until they find out, it's still suicide =)
Starts getting screwdriver out
ITS A KNIFE!!
Those tasers need recharging. He took 4 at the same dam time… Dayum
They could of shot him in the leg
2:22 HEADSHOT
never bring a screwdriver to a shootout
00:17 down south, player number two would have run him over
Jeez some people are stupid. They think the police won't shoot. Wrong.
Screw this guy.
Day of the zombies.
Screwdriving under influence
They always say "go!"
Why is it so hard to listen like i mean at this point just glad he's gone from this earth because his whole life seemed pointless
Is he the Elephant man??!
He was just trying to tighten the screws on his utility belt. Jeesh.
The more I watch these videos the more apparent that cops are fucking pussies, fuck!a
Reminder: Never bring a screwdriver to a gun fight! ….LMAO
Not that the shooting cop shot sideways 😎 G style lol