State investigators have released police body camera video of Minneapolis officers shooting a young man being questioned in a police headquarters interrogation room.
The shooting occurred shortly after Marcus Fischer stabbed himself in the neck and turned the knife on the officers.
Fischer, 19, of Minneapolis, pleaded guilty last month to assault for the Dec. 18 encounter and is serving a three-year-plus prison term.
An investigation into the officers' response determined that their actions were justified, according to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA).
The video released this week by the BCA shows the several minutes that officers implored Fischer to put down the knife.
By that time, he had already cut his neck while briefly left alone when officers went to get him a drink. The BCA also released interrogation room video of Fischer raising the knife to the right side of his neck, but the agency cut the filming at that point.
"Marcus, put the knife down and back away from the door," one officer is heard on the video yelling, "because we can't come in and save you until you put that knife down."
A stun gun is sought, but there isn't one in police headquarters, so an officer retrieves one from his car. One shot from the stun gun misses Fischer.
