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Graphic body cam footage showing Houston police fatally shooting Alva Braziel has been released under the orders of the mayor, who took issue with claims on social media that Braziel, a black man, had been unarmed. Multiple videos of the deadly police shooting of Alva Braziel, a 38-year-old African-American man, were posted Thursday on the Houston Police Department's YouTube page. They included police body cam footage from two responding officers and surveillance video from a convenience store from the July 9 incident in southeast Houston, Texas.
The clip, which lasted more than 18 minutes, opens with surveillance footage from the convenience store. The grainy dark image shows Braziel in the distance falling to the ground 10 seconds after a police car pulls up. The body cam footage from the responding officers shows the aftermath of the shooting, where the officer goes up to Braziel, covered in a blood stained vest and a gun in his right hand, which is then removed by one of the officers. Viewers can hear Braziel's labored breathing as police say they called for an ambulance.
In the video, a witnesses can be heard saying just after the shooting, "I know he pulled a gun, man, but come on." The video is extremely graphic.
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