NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Newly obtained surveillance video has caused Nashville police to revise their account of a traffic stop on Friday that ended with a white officer shooting and killing an armed African-American man.
Police say footage first made available Tuesday shows there was no initial physical confrontation between Jocques Scott Clemmons and Nashville Officer Josh Lippert right after Clemmons ran a stop sign and they both exited their cars.
Based on a different video, police first believed Clemmons “abruptly charged at Officer Lippert, making full contact with his body.”
Instead, the latest video angle shows Clemmons ran toward Lippert to get around him, stopped short of the officer, and then turned around and ran in the opposite direction, police said.
In a follow pursuit by the officer, Clemmons, 31, refused orders to drop the loaded pistol before Lippert fired at him, police said.