[kellyhound]

A trooper with the Arizona Department of Safety was being attacked by a suspect and feared for his life when he fired his weapon, killing the suspect. The violent confrontation was captured on the trooper's dash camera.

The incident started shortly before midnight near Scottsdale Road just south of the Loop 202 Freeway.

At a Friday afternoon news conference, DPS Director Col. Frank Milstead said Trooper Hugh Grant had been driving on a DUI holiday task force (with a citizen observer in his car) when he saw a man knock a street sign into the roadway. That man has been identified as 25-year-old Ahmed E A Al-Hashemi.

Milstead said the trooper used his PA system to tell Al Hashemi to pick up the sign. But the man refused, became "defiant" and started walking along Rural Road away from the trooper. Video shows the man come toward the trooper’s car and kicking the hood.

"Due to the erratic and threatening behavior of the subject," the trooper parked and got out of his car, continuing to order Al Hashemi to the ground, Milstead said. But he reportedly refused all commands. That led to a confrontation between the two men, said Milstead. You can see the struggle ensue on the dash-cam video.

Milstead says the trooper used his Taser two times on Al Hashemi, but it was ineffective. Milstead says Al Hashemi continued to defy all orders and resisted efforts to be taken into custody.

Then Al Hashemi came at the trooper and "rushed him." The "violent" encounter then escalated, said Milstead.

"The attack can be characterized as extraordinarily vicious," reads a statement from DPS.

During the struggle, Grant was hit, punched, head-butted, kicked, and knocked to the ground at least three times, says DPS. At one point, Milstead said Al Hashemi grabbed the trooper's Taser, and struck the trooper in the head with it. You can see the pieces of the Taser fly in the air on the video.

"Within seconds, the trooper was in a fight for his life," reads a statement from DPS. "The trooper desperately called for his citizen observer to radio for help."

The attack continued. DPS said Al Hashemi continued to "kick the trooper in the head."

Milstead said just as Grant was about to lose consciousness, he fired his service weapon. "The trooper knew both his life and the life of the citizen observer in his car were in immediate danger of death. As his last resort, the trooper deployed his duty weapon, striking the subject and killing him."

[wildaxboxer]

No choice, if he made a cleaner contact with that head butt, and knocked the cop clean out, different outcome, takes his weapon, shoots cop, and girl filming...

[Oswald2001]

It was the Will of Olive.

[Mashums2002]

LOL i want to play with the dudes dead body

[el_topo]

Good taken out like the animal he is