<p>Police in Louisville, Kentucky, shot dead a suspect who had thrown knives at officers during a standoff in a house on North 42nd Street in the early hours of April 26.</p><p>A police spokesperson told a press conference that police received calls for help on the night on April 25 after a man was reported smashing windows in the neighborhood. When two officers arrived on scene, the suspect was in a house setting a fire and threw a knife, striking one of the officers in the leg. The suspect was shot dead by the second officer after an ambulance was called.</p><p>Bodycam footage, released by Louisville Metro Police Department, shows the officers arrive as a man runs up to them shouting “there’s a burglar in my house.” The first officer enters the house, which appears to be ransacked, before retreating in pain, saying “he threw a knife at me.”</p><p>The second officer’s bodycam footage shows him shooting the suspect from the doorway of the house after asking the suspect to show his hands.</p><p>A police spokesperson said that the department welcomed the “challenging and difficult conversations” that being transparent and releasing footage of shootings can provoke and that a new course of deescalation training had been developed and would be implemented later in the year. Credit: Louisville Metro Police Department via Storyful</p><br />
