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Fort Collins Police asked Jeremy Holmes to drop the hunting knife he was holding more than 40 times before fatally shooting the 19-year-old man July 1 near the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins, body camera footage released Tuesday shows. Police were alerted that Holmes was walking to his brother’s residence at the Aggie Village Apartments just south of CSU’s campus with a large knife by a 911 call from Holmes’ mother. The woman reported that Holmes had left the residence after saying he was going to kill his brother and sister-in-law, who lived at the Aggie Village Apartments, and that Jeremy Holmes had struggled with mental health issues in the past. The woman said to dispatchers that Holmes told her he planned to charge police and force them to shoot him, and he said she would “lose either one or two sons” that night. Officer Phil Morris with CSU police responded to the area of Whitcomb Street and Prospect Road, where he saw Holmes holding a large knife. In the video, Morris pulled out his patrol pistol and immediately began instructing Holmes to drop the knife, and backed away from Holmes as he continued walking toward the officer.
Holmes refused to drop the knife, and uttered phrases such as, “Kill me now,” and, “My life is over.” Fort Collins police Officer Erin Mast was responding to a different call, but saw Morris with his weapon drawn as she drove on Prospect with her lights flashing. She stopped and tried to assist Morris, pulling out her firearm and also pleading with Holmes to drop the knife. With Mast’s cover, Morris can be heard saying he is going to try shooting Holmes with a Taser, but as he goes to pull the Taser, Holmes charges Morris with the knife. Morris redrew his gun and fired four times at Holmes, and Mast also fired twice, with all six rounds hitting Holmes, according to Jones. Both Holmes’ mother and brother have seen the body-camera footage, Jones said. “I think the officers have certain tools that are available to them, and some are less lethal and some are not,” Harris said. “In this case the officer made a decision to try and transition to that less lethal option, and I’m not going to sit here and second-guess him. If it had worked, it would have been a great day for everybody.”
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Oi mate u got a loicence for that knoif
2:28 needlessly close call crossfire wise
British guy pointing a gun at an American guy with a knife. It’s beautiful. This simply proves why British police need guns.
Once the weapon was ID as a knife, taser should have been deployed.
He says "I'm going to try taser." She says "ok" and starts to put her gun down. WTF???
very good job, good shoot..
"Drop the knoiff"
Good job female officer, put your gun down at the same time your partner is putting his away for a taser, what a dumb and incompetent second officer
The officer gave him almost 2 minutes to think
Cop has a British accent. Probably lived in America for a number of years though.
Good on her
that passing by patrol car had trouble finding the fucking situation or what???
2:29 Lady cop has to be careful with the crossfire.
I never heard a American cop with an Australian accent.
Police live saved. Thanks god
One question. Do US cops carry tasers?
Putting holes in shit
Jeremy if your ghost is reading this comment, I just wanted to let you know that you were an idiot.🤨
Hey, thats my apartment building!
Is it possible to get a `Jeremy, Drop The Knife` facemask?
You sure this wasn’t filmed in the UK?
Natural selection
Is this guy British he has a British Accent????
lol @ 1:37 "o shit i just drove passed them" lol what the fuck
Not sure the second cop helped the situation much.
and that my friends is why you dont announce you're about to taze them
I'm going to go for Taser, so if you want to die you should attack me now before it's too late.
British man as a cop in America, first time seeing that
Accent is a strange South African-British-American hybrid
he is so good at aim he probably playing cs:go
This kid mother got arrested recently as well. I take the side of the police on this one. How many times do you have to tell somebody to drop your weapon? good grief, son! That caught literally said drop the knife 40 times. That's what was reported To the newspapers!! The fcpd in Fort Collins do a great job in the city that I live in. I's a bummer this kid wanted to die, but that's unfortunately his undoing.
Nice draw ðŸ‘ÂðŸÂ¼ðŸ‘ÂðŸÂ¼
I think liar mom has a video on here claims proof DA lied.
"wHy dOnT thEy jUsT TazE hIM"
1:59 That's why
Is that a British guy in the USA being a copper?
👀…..they handled business
This is the easiest and free way out when you have no money and noone likes you
Now the suspects mother has filed a Extreme Risk Protection Order( Red Flag Law) against this officer.
Wow the officer sounds English!
Another deranged Democrat bites the dust.
Jeremy dropped the knife.
I’m pretty sure that when he took 6 bullets and beaver bit the concrete with his face… he technically dropped the knife, officer.
the cop kinda sounds like tomska,
the cop has a British accent…
When you’re de escalation someone who is coherently speaking you engage them on exactly what they say- you don’t fuckin keep ordering them and not listen. 99% of the time people do these types of things is because they feel like they’re at the end of their rope and no one cares.