"A video is being circulated on social media showing new details from the fatal police shooting that shut down Interstate 80 for hours on Thursday. The video, which has been posted to Instagram and TikTok and viewed thousands of times, shows a man either dead or dying from gunshot wounds as the Richmond detective uses a blunt object to smash in the driver's side of his own work vehicle and open the door, after apparently locking himself out of his own vehicle."
"Authorities said on Thursday that the man had stopped his car on the freeway and that the detective stopped behind him to help, while on his morning commute. Around 7:20 a.m., the man allegedly tried to open the detective's passenger door and then charged at him with a scissor jack, prompting the detective to shoot. The object the detective is using to smash in his window appears similar to a scissor jack."
A video circulating on Instagram and TikTok shows a man lying wounded or dead from gunshot wounds as a Richmond detective smashes his own vehicle's driver's-side window and opens the door after apparently locking himself out. Authorities said the man stopped on westbound I-80 near the Pinole Valley Road exit in Hercules and the detective stopped behind to help during his morning commute. Around 7:20 a.m., the man allegedly tried to open the detective's passenger door and then charged at him with a scissor jack, prompting the detective to shoot. The California Attorney General's office is investigating under a statute that requires review of cases where an officer kills an unarmed person, adding the case to a backlog of nearly 60 police killings under investigation. The California Highway Patrol shut down westbound lanes of I-80, and neither the detective nor the man have been publicly identified.
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