WATCH LIVE: Baltimore City Police To Release Body Camera Footage Of 2 Officer Involved Shootings

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore City Police are holding a property league Thursday day to merchandise bodycam footage of 2 incidents successful which constabulary officers changeable men past week.

Baltimore Police Deputy Commissioner Brian Nadeau described the contents of the footage shown and the circumstances of the incidental earlier each video was shown.

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In a fatal shooting connected August 9, constabulary said a telephone came successful for an battle and idiosyncratic who was equipped astatine the 6000 artifact of Alta Avenue. The section said they helped 2 radical get retired of the location safely, but 1 antheral inactive wrong was perchance having a behavioral wellness situation and equipped with a weapon.

The section called successful specialized teams that sent a robot that was equipped with audio and video to the beforehand doorway of the location to interaction with the man, identified arsenic Marcus Martin. The robot was incapable to summation introduction to the location due to the fact that of a tempest door, but a squad maintained interaction with Martin implicit a telephone call.

Martin reportedly showed up astatine the doorway and fired his weapon. That is erstwhile a constabulary sniper opened occurrence and struck Martin once.

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Deputy Commissioner Sheree Briscoe said astatine that point, astatine slightest 1 serviceman opened fire, striking and sidesplitting the person

The ACLU called for a full, transparent probe into the shooting, and demanded that bodycam footage of the incidental beryllium made disposable to the public.

Early successful the greeting of August 12, officers helping adjacent stores connected the 400 Block of E. Baltimore Street saw a combat adjacent the intersection of Baltimore and Holliday streets and approached the group. They heard what they believed to beryllium gunfire and allegedly saw Hillman pointing a firearm.

Hillman ran westbound and allegedly turned and pointed his handgun astatine an serviceman giving chase, constabulary said.

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Officer Alexandros Haziminas fired his weapon 3 times and struck Hillman, who was taken to a infirmary for attraction and aboriginal released, constabulary said.

CBS Baltimore Staff

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