‘I want to be able to help you’: Video shows Florida officer talking to bank robber later shot dead

FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has released new body camera video of a negotiator trying to talk to a man holding hostages at a Bank of America. “I want to be able to help you with that. Keep talking to me. Keep talking to me. Let me know what’s going through your head right now. What concerns you have? I wanna make sure you’re the most relaxed,” the officer says before a gunshot is heard.

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