Just-released bodycam video shows that a September 13 Powell Street BART station police shooting was preceded by three attempts to use a sort of “lasso gun” called a BolaWrap, but that tool failed to subdue the suspect three times.
The Friday, September 13 police shooting at the Powell Street BART station, like all police shootings, had its police bodycam video made public. That bodycam video was released earlier this week, and shows that the suspect, 30-year-old Justin Matthew Alderman, ignored repeated requests to stop and/or drop his gun, and that he was spotted with the gun by a city employee, leading to the police chase and eventual shooting.
The video also shows that police attempted to use non-lethal force three times. Which sounds like charitable behavior by the SFPD. But now KGO is reporting that the non-lethal force tool, a sort of lasso-shooting gun known as a BolaWrap, failed to subdue the suspect three times, which led to the eventual shooting…