South San Francisco police on Thursday released officer bodycam video of the shooting of a knife-wielding man having a mental health crisis earlier this month.
The shooting happened at about 5:10 a.m. at an apartment complex on Sandra Court in the Sunshine Gardens neighborhood of South San Francisco. A woman had called police to report her son, 28-year-old Luis Francisco-Manzo, was under the influence of drugs and was making suicidal statements.
The video shows officers making contact with Francisco-Manzo and giving him instructions to face away from them and walk backward toward the officers. He initially complied, but then instead faced officers and walked directly toward them, and brandished a knife…