Tarnisha Woolard decries that her son, 33-year-old Christian Emile, was shot in the back as he attempted to run away.
Photo courtesy of Tarnisha Woolard
The mother of Christian Emile, a man whom police fatally shot in Brooklyn earlier this year, denounced newly released surveillance footage on the NYPD’s YouTube channel showing him being gunned down.
Last week, the NYPD released a new video of Emile’s death. The 33-year-old was shot by police on Mother’s Day, May 12, on Church Avenue in East Flatbush. At the time, police brass said patrolling cops spotted Emile pointing a gun at another man. Cops intervened and said they deployed a Taser that stunned Emile.
Emile, however, did not drop the firearm after being Tased — leading officers to open fire with their guns, police sources said.
His mother, Tarnisha Woolard, told amNewYork Metro Monday that she believes the officers involved could have handled things without killing her son, who was shot in the back as he attempted to run away.
“That’s the most devastating part about it, the thing that we see, he’s never, he’s never a threat to you and you were in arms distance, you could have pushed him down,” Woolard said. “That says to me that somewhere, the training is not correct.”
Police defended the deadly incident, stating that Emile put officers at risk by brandishing the firearm — something that PBA President Patrick Hendry continued to contend.
“The bottom line is that this individual was not only carrying a gun, he was wildly waving that gun around on the street, putting both police officers and civilian bystanders at risk. Our police officers were forced to respond to that threat,” Hendry said.
Emile’s mother also pointed out that the death of her son shared eerily similarities to the now infamous police-involved subway shooting on Sutter Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn on Sept. 15.
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