On the evening of Feb. 27, troopers with the Arizona Department of Public Safety attempted to stop a man in a black sedan. The man fled, setting off a chain of events that led to state troopers stopping his car with a grappling device and, ultimately, to several troopers and Phoenix police officers killing him in an onslaught of bullets.
It’s not clear that the man, identified as 41-year-old Jesus A. Gonzalez Florez, was ever armed.
On Friday, the Phoenix Police Department released a “critical incident briefing” on Florez’s death. The briefings, which are released two weeks after any police shooting or in-custody death, include snippets of body-worn camera footage and dispatch audio. Phoenix New Times also obtained longer body-cam footage via a public records request — though because Phoenix officers arrived later at the scene, that video doesn’t depict the full sequence of events. DPS has not released any body-cam footage from its troopers, and a DPS spokesperson acknowledged but did not respond to a question about whether such footage will be provided…