A police department in Maryland on Friday night tweeted an explicit and graphic video of one of its officers shooting and killing a Black man from earlier in the week. The Montgomery County Police Department identified Sergeant David Cohen as the officer who shot Finan H. Berhe and released a 30-second video of the shooting recorded from a bodycam. It was the second widely reported instance of a white police officer shooting and killing a young Black man in the past three days. On the video, Cohen can be seen in a squad car putting on a protective mask before exiting and encountering Berhe. Cohen instantly draws his gun, aims it at Berhe and yells, "Put the knife down!" Cohen then uses the radio to report in part that he had "one with a knife." Berhe retreats but ultimately charges are Cohen, prompting the officer to fire multiple shots at Berhe, who was later taken to a hospital and died from the gunshot wounds. The video did appear to show Berhe with a knife, but it's unclear if its standard police protocol to shoot to kill in such an instance or use nonlethal force when a suspect is not armed with a gun.
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