His mother can be heard screaming, “Oh Jesus!” in the background. He continues tasing Blair, all the while the first officer yells, “Drop the knife!” Blair manages to rise up once again, prompting the first officer to shoot him nine times. “I do not wanna shoot you!” Seconds later, the second officer tasers Blair, causing him to fall to the ground. “Don’t do it!” the officers repeatedly shout at him. Though the view of Michael is somewhat obscured, he can be seen holding what appears to be a knife to his throat. “Don’t make it the hard way.” Soon after, the officers manage to pry open the door, seeing Blair with the knife.īlair then closes the door again, before the officer makes good on his words to kick it down. “Michael, you wanna do this the easy way,” the officer adds. “We will kick in the door, and I don’t wanna do it.”Īs they try reasoning with Blair, the officers also attempt to jimmy open the door’s lock. “Hey, if you don’t open the door, we’re gonna kick it in,” one officer warns outside the bathroom door. In the video, the officers are first seen attempting to coax Blair out of the bathroom, where he had locked himself, prompting the 911 call. Blair suffered from schizophrenia and was suicidal, his mother claims.
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