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Seattle PD: No video of officer-involved shooting

The Columbian
Published: May 8, 2013, 5:00pm

SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department has acknowledged that it doesn’t have any video of an encounter in which officers shot and killed a mentally disturbed man in February.

The Seattle Times reports that eight officers responded, but none had the dashboard cameras in their cruisers turned on during the encounter with 21-year-old Jack Sun Keewatinawin.

The case has gotten the attention of a federal monitor overseeing reforms at the police department, after the Justice Department found that Seattle police had a pattern of using excessive force.

The department says that even though it’s been using the cameras in its entire fleet since 2007, some of the responding officers weren’t trained in how to work them, others arrived straight from the start of their shifts and didn’t have time to electronically synchronize them, and others never activated the cameras by turning on their emergency lights.

The department’s Firearms Review Board found the shooting justified. Police said the man brandished an 18-inch piece of rebar as he approached an officer who had fallen down.

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