Body camera footage shows Oakland police and California Highway Patrol officers confronting a suspect armed with improvised pole-mounted knives before the encounter ended in a fatal shooting.
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Oakland police released body camera footage from a July 13 fatal shooting that ended when officers opened fire on a man carrying homemade weapons made from knives attached to long metal poles.
Video shows the man refusing repeated commands from California Highway Patrol and Oakland police officers to drop the weapons before moving through a neighborhood and toward a strip mall as officers attempted to contain him.
After stun guns were deployed, the man allegedly swung one of the bladed weapons toward officers, and two Oakland police officers fired their weapons, striking and killing him.