The video shows police chasing Wooters. You can see Wooters driving a stolen EPD car, crashing it, and then exiting the cruiser. The video shows Wooters holding a knife. And he does not listen to the officers and their instructions to drop it, forcing three officers to shoot.
But all officers did not activate their cameras. The video is from another responding officer who did. Sgt. Jason Cullum says, “He came at her, she saw the knife, so her concern at that point was her safety and not getting her camera activated.â€
Police say officers shot 11 rounds, and seven hit Wooters. This all stemmed from an incident that started at TGI Friday’s at Eastland Mall.
Witnesses say Wooters made threats to both customers and police, before running to Fifth Third Bank.
That’s where the officer confronted Wooters, but he got away in her car.
This whole horrifying episode is being kept quiet in these parts, but “Cop Block” and “Photography Is Not A Crime!” both have this up on Facebook, and it has drawn a big national reactions. In total of the three posts on each page, have hundreds of shares and thousands of comments, very few of them favor EPD.
I still think there is a “cover-up” going on here. They should also release the bodycam footage of the confrontation with the policewoman at 5/3 Bank, which kicked this thing off.
It is things like this that keep me torn between leaving this town forever, and staying and working to make it a better place.
elkaybee
We just posted a new “Readers Poll” question that should be of interest to you and fellow CCO posters. The ‘Readers Poll” question is: Do you feel that the Evansville Police Merit Commission should meet to determine if the use of deadly force on homeless person holding a knife was justified?
Thanks for your input and reading the CCO.
Editor
Thanks! I wonder where the County Prosecutor is on this.
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