[mr_feelgood]

Kind of a shit show in my opinion
Charleston, Illinois

[TheCruxofBag]

More complete vid. Seems the original upload by the Charleston (Illinois) police on YouTube was removed for violating the community guidelines.

Illinois State Police have released police video of a weekend shooting that shows a man taking an officer's gun and shooting himself at a Charleston gas station.

The 8:19 long video shows two vantage points from Charleston police - one from a police car dash cam without audio and another from an officer's body camera with audio.

On Saturday, Charleston police said 22-year-old Yahacov Dennis called 911 for help early Saturday morning around 1 a.m. When officers arrived at a gas station on West Lincoln Ave. near E Street, CPD said, "A rapidly evolving event took place where a CPD officer was disarmed."

Dennis took the gun and then shot toward himself, according to the department. Police said he was given medical help and then taken to a hospital where he died. Dennis was later identified as an Eastern Illinois University student.

When an officer's body camera audio is activated another officer near Dennis thanks him for calling police and said paramedics were on the way. Dennis admitted to an officer he had smoked marijuana. Officers said during their questioning they were trying to get as much information as possible to paramedics. At one point during the interaction Dennis tells an officer he thought the marijuana he smoked was laced with PCP.

Another officer asked Dennis if he could move his car for him into a parking spot to avoid blocking a gas pump. Some of the audio is hard to understand, but officers were continuing to ask more about the marijuana he smoked. Dennis was shaking at one point while talking to officers, and one of them asked Dennis if he wanted to sit in a car to get warm.

At that point, Dennis started shaking more uncontrollably, and officers moved towards him to help stabilize him near a gas pump. Within seconds, Dennis grabbed one of the officer's gun.

https://archive.ph/4qGy7

[Ch3rok33]

Cop ran away and left his buddy with the guy who had just taken his gun. Yeesh

[VileGirl]

Not really shocking in the aspect of him thinking maybe killing himself would reset him into a different situation, kinda like a video game, with pcp laced in the weed,

But without the brain on pcp..yes it would be shocking..I guess.

Some people just don’t want to go to jail, I doubt that was the reasoning here,

The cop probably didn’t have his gun secured. Or, maybe the guy just got lucky and then blew his own lights out with it .

Crazy to see in usa…lately though, not so much.

Idk

[mr_feelgood]

I'll take what he's having

[mcpronoun]

I'm surprised they didn't cuff him and read him his rights once he was down.

[Xploit Machine]

typical American cops

[pokerplay]

useless fucking morons, the lot of them

[stanmarsh]

It was difficult to tell exactly what happened based on the the dashcam. After watching the bodycam footage, all I can say is that I feel bad for everyone involved. PCP is a hellluva drug.

I believe that everything he said was legit. He was probably a decent person who simply got ahold of some bad weed. He realized he was experiencing a dissociative episode and was trying to get help.

Up until the very last moment, this was a response to a medical emergency (albeit with some additional risk). With the obvious exception of not securing the weapon, I think that the police handled themselves fairly well. I do not think even the victim knew that he was about to become suicidal.

Some may say they should have cuffed him as a precaution. The cops probably contemplated the same thing, but decided not to. If he was on PCP, things could have escalated very quickly.

Had the paramedics gotten there sooner, he may have felt like himself a few hours later.

Unfortunately, he experienced an overwhelming impulse to harm himself and had the opportunity to act on it. In a dissociated state, simply looking at the the gun may have been what triggered the response (no pun intended).

Definitely not the typical shooting. Thanks to both of you for posting.

[Mr.NoCredit]

It goes to show you can’t predict anything at anytime while being a police officer. It went from 0 to 100 in about 2 seconds and ended even quicker.