Body cam footage shows man in crisis point gun at BPD officers before being shot

Baltimore Police on Thursday released body worn camera footage from a July 1 officer involved shooting.

SHOT A MAN ON FALKIRK AVENUE.THE SHOOTING HAPPENED EARLIERTHIS MONTH..

AND IT CALLS INTOQUESTION PROTOCOLS FORRESPONDING TO INDIVIDUALSHAVING MENTAL HEALTH CRISES&.WMAR 2 NEWS ABBY ISAACSEXPLAINS.is he completely alert?

Notreally, he hears voices..

ACALL TO BALTIMORE POLICE EARLYIN THE MORNING OF JULY FIRST.THE CALLER SAYING HER SON INLAW IS HAVING AN EPISODE INTHE BASEMENT AND MAY HAVE AGUN.

POLICE AND PARAMEDICSARRIVE TO FALKIRK ROAD INNORTHEAST BALTIMORE TOINVESTIGATE.

He is a psychpatient hscreaming and ranting now THEMOTHER IN LAW TELLS POLICE SHEDOESNCURRENTLY ARMED, BUT EXPLAINEDAN INCIDENT THE MONTH PRIORWHERE HE WAS NAKED, SHOOTINGAT CARS.

AFTER THAT, HE WASDIAGNOSED WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA.THEN 11 DAYS LATER, THIS CALL.OFFICERS FIND HIM IN THEBASEMENT AND ATTEMPT TODEESCALTE THE STUATION FOR 15MINUTES how you doing man 8:26THIRD Iwife poisoned me 10:19 Itrying to hurt you wetrying to help you.

The medicsare upstairs.

11:51 If I killyou inside my house ityo you gonna die inside myhouse.

Iyouupstairs.

18:11 did you takeyour medication?

No man thatshit fake AT THIS POINT, THEMAN PULLS OUT A HANDGUN ANDPOINTED IT AT ONE OF THEOFFICERS, SO TWO OFFICERSSHOOT, HITTING HIM MULTIPLETIMES.

18:1━ gun HE ISCURRENTLY RECOVERING AT THEHOSPITAL.

POLICE RECOVERED 8FIREARMS FROM THE HOME.

WHENQUESTIONED IF THEY COULD HAVEDONE MORE AFTER THE INTITIALJUNE INCIDENT, POLICECOMMISSIONER MICHAEL HARRISONSAYS THEY FOLLOWED PROTOCOL.Since we had no fixed addressor permanet residence for himthere was no place for us togo search for other weaponsbut he was given a mental evalthat night.

SINCE THE SHOOTINGHARRISON SAYS THEYLOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THEROLE OF CRISIS INTERVENTIONSPECIALISTS itthat we put this into contextwith the realities of thesafety of all those involved.Paramedics and emts didrespond because they weredispatched and they did a safescene assessment.

At that timethey decided not the enter theresidence and waited untilpolice arrived due to beingnotified that the individualperhaps may have had a gun.HARRISON SAYS ALL THREEOFFICERS THAT RESPONDED WERETRAINED IN 3 DIFFERENTBEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROGRAMS.Going forward we could look atwho has the training and theactual capacity to handlepeople who have mental illnessand are armed and theunstableness to be able to usethose fire arms. Certainly wehave that training but how dowe find others who have thetraining and have the capacityto handle ti 24 hours a day 7days a week LOOKIV━ HARRISONSAYS HE IS ALSO ABOUT TOUNVEIL A 40 HOUR CRISISINTERVENTION TRAINING FOR THEENTIRE DEPARTMETN.

THE MAN,WHOSE IDENTITY IS NOT BEINGRELEASED, WAS CHARGED WITHASSAULT.

IN NORTH EASTBALTIMORE ABBY ISAACS WMAR 2NEWS.BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTBALTIMORE IS SHARING ITHOUGHTS ON THE SHOOTING.THEY'VE WRITTEN IN PAR━WHILE FOCUS IN THIS INCIDENTHAS BEEN ON THE POLICERESPONSE, THE SOLUTION MUST GOBEYOND POLICING.

WE OFTEN TAKEFOR GRANTED OUR EMERGENCYRESPONSE SYSTEM━ POLICE,FIRE, AND HOSPITALS━ TOADDRESS THESE ISSUES, BUTOFTEN THEY ARE NOT BEST SUITEDFOR THAT SPECIALIZED TASK.THERE MUST BE BROADER,SYSTEMIC INVESTMENT INBEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISISSERVICES AND THE OTHERSERVICES PEOPLE N