9 officers shoot man with box cutter, shiny object on Tennessee interstate, police say
A man died after nine officers opened fire on him on a Tennessee interstate Thursday when he removed what police described as a “shiny cylindrical object” from his pocket.
The man, identified by Tennessee Bureau of Investigation as Landon Eastep, 37, also had a box cutter, the agency said.
The encounter began at roughly 2 p.m., when a state trooper saw Eastep on the shoulder of Interstate 65 south of Nashville, the agency said.
The trooper stopped and talked with Eastep “with the goal of getting the guy off the interstate,” Don Aaron, a spokesman with the Metro Nashville Police Department, said during a news conference.
As they approached the trooper’s car, Eastep “pushed away” from the officer and produced a box cutter, Aaron said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/9-officers-shoot-man-box-cutter-shiny-object-tennessee-interstate-rcna13913
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9 supposedly physically fit guys can't take down one guy with a box cutter and a "shiny object" without shooting him? Really?
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