NYPD Releases Video, 911 Transcripts Related to Shooting of Saheed Vassell

Video released by the New York City Police Department on Thursday shows 34-year-old Saheed Vassell pointing a metal pipe at several people as if it were a gun on Wednesday before he was shot and killed by police officers in the Crown Heights area of the city’s Brooklyn borough.

NYPD Releases Video, 911 Transcripts Related to Shooting of Saheed Vassell

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