New footage from the Aug. 29 Vallejo police shooting of Alexander Schumann appears to show a detective telling one of the shooting officers that the situation was “not a big deal” — while also revealing, for the first time, just how close the 24-year-old came to dying.
The more than 60 minutes of previously unreleased and unredacted footage, obtained by Open Vallejo, also provides multiple angles of the shooting and its aftermath. Both the Vallejo Police Department and the Solano County District Attorney’s Office have refused to disclose the footage despite a state law mandating the prompt release of audiovisual records relating to police shootings.
The district attorney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment…