A mother whose son was killed by an officer at the Atlanta Veteran’s Hospital where he went to get help, says she will continue to fight for justice for her son.
Onnie Smith is not happy the officer won’t face charges.
The incident was captured on an officer’s bodycam. Smith told Channel 2′s Tom Jones that watching the video wasn’t easy.
“It was very painful,” she said during a news conference in front of the DeKalb County courthouse.
The video shows what happened before and immediately after the officer shot 58-year-old John Robert Smith in January.
“Put your knife down,” you hear an officer say repeatedly on the video.
One officer had his gun trained on Smith, who had a knife to his throat. He told the officers he was tired. He kept asking officers to shoot him.
“In the head. In the head,” you hear Smith say.
The back and forth went on for a few minutes. Then Smith went into a room with the knife where a worker was inside.
“Don’t you go in there,” the officer shouts.
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