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Bodycam video shows moment 25-year-old was shot dead by Utah police during traffic stop
Abe AsherThu, 9 March 2023 at 5:17 pm GMT-5·4-min read
Bodycam video shows moment 25-year-old was shot dead by Utah police during traffic stop
Police in Farmington, Utah on Wednesday released footage showing the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Chase Allan following a traffic stop on March 1.
According to Farmington police Chief Eric Johnsen, police pulled Mr Allan over for driving with an illegal licence plate on his blue BMW vehicle. After Mr Allan pulled into a parking lot and was confronted by the officer who pulled him over, the situation quickly escalated.
Backup officers arrived on the scene as Mr Allan, who had a licence plate that read “American State Citizen, Utah” and suggested he was aligned with the extremist anti-government Sovereign Citizen movement, repeatedly claimed that he was under no obligation to identify himself to the police.
Finally, Mr Allan handed over a passport to an officer who took it out of the car window.
“Thank you so much, Mr Chase Allan,” the officer responded as he looked at Mr Allan’s passport.
“That is not me, that is a piece of plastic paper,” Mr Allan responded.
“So you have a fraudlent passport? Wonderful,” an officer sarcastically responded. “That’s what I’m hearing. Step out of the car for me.”
Chase Allan (Diane Allan/Facebook)
Mr Allan refused to get out of the car, telling the officer that they were going to “have an issue.”
“If you don’t step out of the car, we’re going to break the window and pull you out,” another officer threatened.
Moments later, police claim, Mr Allan reached down to grab a weapon. That is not clear from the body camera footage, which does not conclusively show what Mr Allan was reaching for in the seconds before one of the officers screamed “Gun! Gun! Gun!” and police unleashed a torrent of bullets at the car.
Mr Johnsen said at his press conference on Wednesday that Mr Allan was wearing an empty gun holster and that the body camera footage later showed a gun on the floor of the vehicle, though Mr Allan was also reportedly holding a cell phone at the time of the shooting.
Police shot Mr Allan 12 times in what his family described in a statement as a “brutal murder.” Mr Allan’s family also accused the Farmington police department of “stonewalling” them and suggested the encounter that led to Mr Allan’s death was not the routine traffic stop police have framed it as.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/bodycam-video-shows-moment-25-205650993.html