On the morning of April 29, two Phoenix police officers shot and killed 32-year-old Joseph Adam Mendez in a central Phoenix alley. The Phoenix Police Department said the officers killed him while trying to arrest him for outstanding felony warrants and an alleged earlier aggravated assault on a Tolleson police officer.
The department has not publicly named Mendez as the shooting victim, but Phoenix New Times identified him through two different public records about the incident.
On Wednesday, the Phoenix Police Department released its “critical incident briefing” on the shooting. The briefing consists of a video and an accompanying write-up, and includes a photo, footage from two different officers’ body-worn cameras and footage from a surveillance camera. The department releases the briefings approximately two weeks after a critical incident, which includes a fatal shooting by an officer…