Police in Patterson New Jersey recently shot and killed a man, who authorities say was brandishing a firearm. The man, who was Caucasian, drove into the mostly Black neighborhood of Patterson and pulled a gun on police.
Here is the video – warning it is graphic
A crowd quickly formed, as the police and the suspect had a stand off in the middle of the community.
People quickly pulled out their cell phones and began recording the standoff, and many onlookers provided colorful commentary in the footage.
Many of the people in the crowd were urging the police to “shoot” the gunman. The onlookers argued that if the gunman was Black, officers would have already shot and killed him.
Eventually, those hecklers got their wish. Police fired more than a dozen bullets into the gunman, and he fell to the ground dead.