[M.F.D.B.]

On August 8, 2018, at approximately 1711 hours , San Diego Police received a 911 call reporting an assault with a deadly weapon. Witnesses reported seeing a male, later identified as Vaughn Denham, attack another male in the head and torso with a machete.

San Diego Police Officer Corey Pitts responded to the call and advised dispatch he was making contact with a person matching the description of the suspect. As Officer Pitts was getting out of his vehicle, Denham ran up to the car and swung a four-foot long metal chain striking Officer Pitts' vehicle. Officer Pitts unholstered his Taser and ordered Denham to drop the chain. Denham refused and began walking towards Officer Pitts while swinging the chain. Officer Pitts deployed his Taser, which was ineffective in stopping Denham, as the barbs were blocked by - and became entangled in - the metal chain.

Officer Pitts then removed his duty weapon from his holster and pointed it at Denham. He continued to retreat from Denham for a block and a half to keep from being struck with the chain, commanding and imploring Denham to drop the chain throughout. Denham continued to close the distance between him and Officer Pitts, shifting the chain from hand to hand.

After giving Denham multiple commands to "Drop the chain or I will shoot," Officer Pitts fired two rounds from his duty weapon striking and dropping Denham to the pavement. Denham was eventually transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. The man he had attacked with a machete survived.

The entire 306-page investigation report (which contains many photographs, including photos of the machete, and of the chain with entangled Taser barbs) is available in the pdf file below.

[Xtatic]

Good vid.

[TheUrinator]

He didn’t do nuffin

[IAmMrPositive]

Time to set the city on fire.

[Pink_spyder]

Good.
One more piece of shit cleared from the face of the earth!

[jondwon]

Damn that dude wanted to die ! In before whole country protests over this. “He dindu nothin he was a good boy!”

[Padraig Flaherty]

That "police officer" should be immediately terminated from his position! He had absolutely no control of that situation and/or perpetrator...and he's the one with the deadly weapon! Taking time costs lives! Period!

[Padraig Flaherty]

By this I mean taking too long to fire his weapon! You give a clear warning, if not complied, you taking the target down, center of mass, firing until the target is no longer a threat! An entire clip in need be!

[Purgificator]

I thought that he shot the dude right before another car pulled right behind his back, if they got to this point, it was probably not that necessary since other officers could have taken the dude down with tazers from behind or punch him or something else non-lethal. But the officer still did everything by the book and he has steel nerves even though he was extremely pumped by the confrontation.

[Rogan]

"HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT" GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT FUCKING NONSENSE. This video should go viral so that people can see that for every episode of racial bias among the police, you have (in my estimate) ten where police are under severe threat, under severe pressure, and literally wait until they're facing certain death to engage with the perpetrator. This police is a hero, as are all police officers.