[Xploit Machine]

Body camera footage related to the police-involved shooting of a Southampton man accused of stabbing his mother over 40 times on Mother’s Day was released by New York State Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday. Steven Eastwood, 28, was fatally shot by Southampton Town Police on May 10 after officers responded to a 911 call from his mother, who reported he was intoxicated and acting violently inside their Northampton home. The woman survived the attack, Suffolk County police confirmed on Tuesday. Officials previously said responding officers saw Eastwood in the house with the knife and attempted to de-escalate the situation. Body camera footage from multiple officers shows them yelling “drop the knife” several times while he is seen with what appears to be his mother's blood on his sweater, sleeves, and hands.

“Got one at gunpoint, send more units,” an officer can be heard saying over the police radio.

Body camera footage shows Eastwood briefly stepping out the front door with a knife in hand, pausing to stare outward before turning back inside. He is then seen moving into the room where his mother lies on the floor, where authorities allege he continued the attack, as she can be heard intermittently moaning. According to the Attorney General’s Office, two officers fired their service weapons after Eastwood allegedly continued the attack on his mother. He is then seen falling to the ground next to her, where he was later pronounced dead. At a press conference following the shooting, officials said officers shot Eastwood to end his attack on her. The Attorney General’s Office says several knives were recovered at the scene. Three Southampton Town Police officers were reportedly injured during the incident but have since recovered. Under state law, the Attorney General’s Office is required to investigate cases where police actions may have resulted in a person’s death.

[kellyhound]

She sustained more than 40 severe stab and slash wounds across her body

Southampton Town Police Chief James Kiernan confirmed that officers responded to numerous domestic incidents at that address over the last decade.

The calls generally stemmed from volatile altercations between Steven Eastwood and his mother, often triggered when he was severely intoxicated or acting out aggressively.

Because Eastwood suffered from a severe mental health condition, several past responses by the department reportedly involved managing psychiatric emergencies and behavioral breakdowns within the home.

The family had previously secured legal orders of protection against Eastwood. Past police dispatches to the home included checking on or enforcing these court orders when he returned to the property illegally.

When Eastwood violated orders of protection, he was placed under arrest by responding officers. For example, during a notable August 2016 incident where he was found heavily intoxicated on the family's property in violation of a Suffolk County Family Court order, he was taken directly to police headquarters, processed, and held overnight for a morning court arraignment.

Following those past arrests, he was processed through the local court system on misdemeanor charges, such as Second-Degree Criminal Contempt.

Despite his documented mental health struggles and the family's repeated calls to the police, Eastwood did not receive effective, long-term institutionalized psychiatric help that prevented him from returning to the home.

Police Chief James Kiernan confirmed that Eastwood lived with his mother "on and off" throughout his life. After legal interventions or brief separations, he continually returned to the Toppings Drive residence.

In fact, chief investigators believe he didn't even permanently reside there at the time of the shooting, but was simply back at the house visiting his mother on Mother's Day when the fatal breakdown occurred.

In the state of New York, a court cannot easily force an adult into long-term inpatient psychiatric care for standard non-felony domestic disturbances. Unless an individual is legally deemed an immediate, permanent danger to themselves or others during a specific psychiatric evaluation, they cannot be held indefinitely.

The legal system generally treats violations of protective orders as criminal law matters rather than public health crises. Instead of mandating psychiatric rehabilitation, the system filters these individuals through local jails and standard probation.

Because the family's orders of protection would periodically expire or go unenforced, Eastwood was legally able to return to the home. The police could only intervene after a new disturbance was phoned in.

[Mr.NoCredit]

Glad she survived. Crazy that she suffered that many stab wounds. It’s going to be a while in recovery but she’s alive and he’s dead..

[yah]

They should've shot his ass as soon as they saw him standing over her with the knife (or when he came outside at the latest).