https://www.daily-times.com/story/ne...e/70116189007/

Several video files were released to the media and public Friday, April 14. Hebbe had announced the department's intention to do so in a statement given the day after the shooting.

According to a news release by the Farmington Police Department, Dotson family members and their attorney reviewed the video prior to its release.

The body camera footage shows officers mistakenly approaching the Dotson house at 5305 Valley View Ave. in Farmington instead of the house at 5308 Valley View Ave., where the domestic violence call originated shortly before midnight on April 5.

The exterior lights of the Dotson home were illuminated as officers walked up to and past the numbers 5305, which were posted in large figures on the home’s garage at the front of the property, without realizing their error.

One of the officers knocks on the front door three times, and identifies the group as Farmington police at least three times. A short discussion ensued in which the officers apparently realize they are at the wrong address.

“Oh, s---,” one of the officers said, chuckling in the footage.

The officers then began to walk away, only to turn back toward the door when it opened a little more than two minutes after the encounter began as a figure appeared in the doorway. One of the officers yelled, “Hey, hey!” and several rounds are fired at the figure, who falls to the ground immediately.

The officers retreated into the yard to assess the situation, and after 50 seconds, the voice of a woman – apparently that of Dotson’s wife – could be heard from inside the house.

Seconds later there is another exchange of gunfire between officers and a second figure in the house. After a pause of 10 to 15 seconds, the officers identify themselves as Farmington police while the woman’s screams continue. Backup units arrive at the scene a short time later.

“We can still hear the female crying,” one of the officers radioed. “The male I saw go down.”

Hebbe said a slow-motion analysis of the body camera footage shows Robert Dotson opening the door with his left hand and holding a gun in his right hand. He said Dotson then held the weapon in both hands and pointed it at officers before he was shot.

He said he did not know if Dotson fired any rounds at officers.

In the redacted video - the names of the officers were bleeped out - around nine minutes into the incident Dotson's wife can be heard shouting from inside the home, "Somebody shot my husband. Please help."

Over approximately the next 10 minutes, as other officers arrive on scene, Mrs. Dotson informs the officers that there are children upstairs. Officers are later heard discussing the presence of at least three children inside the home.

For several minutes the officers on scene shout commands at Mrs. Dotson to exit the house with her hands out while she pleads for help. She eventually exits, is removed from the scene and placed in handcuffs.

You only post articles to sow discontent. You're a sh*tbag.

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Muh freedoms

They should be locked up for murder.

**** the police

Inb4 Suspended with pay

fired with pensions

#backtheblue

You can certainly tell how many people actually read the article, and how many just fall for OP's deceptive headline...

- Police realize they're at the wrong address
- They start to leave
- Unknown person opens door and raises a gun at police
-Thatis when he gets shot

“Oh we got the wrong house sorry to disturb your sleep sir”

- every other First world country

It's murder when you shoot someone who raised and is aiming a gun at you?

The OP is a garbage poster.

Srs.

If you had a poster and it was a picture of some garbage it would be OP.