Birmingham Police Chief Michael Pickett is addressing a viral social media video that showed an officer, with gun drawn, approach a woman inside a convenience store during the search for an armed robbery suspect.
The store surveillance video was taken on Tuesday and showed the officer draw his weapon as he entered the store and approach the woman who appeared to be waiting in line.
The officer had the gun pointed at the woman and the woman put both hands up in the air. They talked for several minutes and at one point the officer held her wrist…