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Body camera footage from police in California shows a bleeding and crying 17-year-old girl apologizing to the officer who shot her three times after she teen taunted him to open fire after she deliberately ran at him with a large kitchen knife.
An officer responded to reports of a girl causing a disturbance behind a Carl Jr's fast food restaurant on North Rose Avenue in Oxnard with a 12-inch knife in her pocket,
Oxnard Police Chief Scott Whitney described the 2019 confrontation in an edited video package posted online by his department.
The young woman involved, who has not been identified, survived the shooting and has in fact helped police with their training.
'This is not your typical officer involved shooting. A 17-yr-old girl attempted suicide by cop. She was shot 3 times. The officer saved her life. This young woman now shares her experience with police officers to help them understand what might be going on with a person who wants to commit suicide by cop,' Oxnard police posted online.
This photo made from a May 3, 2019 police video camera video released by the Oxnard Police Department showing an officer shooting a 17-year-old girl armed with a knife in California
The girl, center, is seen alongside the officers who have undergone training to prevent incidents of 'suicide by cop'
An officer responded to an empty lot behind a Carl Jr's in response to multiple calls allegedly made by the teenage girl reporting a disturbance cause by her
Officer Timothy Roberts' body camera records him warning the girl not to reach for the weapon.
'Why, what happens if I reach for it?' asks the girl, who's wearing a red shirt, blue shorts and sneakers.
'Then something bad is going to happen,' Roberts says.
The camera then shows him backing away from the teen in a parking lot while ordering her to drop the knife.
The girl ignores his commands and keeps walking toward him.'Come on, shoot me,' she tells the officer standing at a distance with his gun drawn. 'I've been waiting all day.'
'Drop it,' the officer orders.
'No,' the teen replies.
When she suddenly begins running at Roberts with the knife in her right hand, he shoots her multiple times and she collapses to the ground.
The officer in the video repeatedly orders the young woman to discard the knife, but each time she refuses
Police say the teen was armed with this 12-inch kitchen knife at the time of the incident
The video shows the 17-year-old taunting the cop and challenging him to open fire on her
The officer backs away until the girl breaks into a run, prompting him to shoot her three times
The teen collapses to the ground, bleeding and writhing in agony
Two officers are then shown providing medical aid to the girl as they wait for an ambulance.
'I'm so sorry,' the teen says while panting and writhing on the pavement.
'It's OK,' an officer responds.
The two officers are seen in the body camera footage surveying the girl's injuries, including gunshot wounds to the chest and thigh.
Officer Roberts and his partner proceed to administer first aid to the girl
The girl repeatedly apologizes to the cops while being treated for gunshot wounds
The second officer arrived moments before the shooting and was preparing to use a beanbag weapon to try to subdue the girl, according to police.
Roberts had worked for the Oxnard Police Department since 2015 and was assigned to the patrol division.
Further investigation revealed that multiple 911 calls that were made that morning reporting a disturbed woman armed with a knife with the calls coming from the teen's own phone, leading them to believe that she 'deliberately intended to be shot by an officer.'
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