McMillin is heard saying it’s a handgun another officer said the weapon was loaded. Another officer checked on Walker and picked up something off the ground and tossed it away from the suspect. The officer can be heard on his radio calling for an ambulance. McMillin ordered the pastor to stand back. Moments after the shooting, a man who identified himself as the church’s pastor is seen in the video approaching the officer and saying: “Don’t shoot no more.” Mahan said Walker allegedly told his ex that he “had a bullet with her name on it.” Mahan said witnesses told police that on the day of the shooting, Walker had threatened his ex-girlfriend, who was attending a wedding at the church that day. “Relax,” the officer is heard saying in the video moments before Walker takes off running. The encounter began with McMillin approaching Walker outside the church and patting him down. We think this doesn’t allow any speculation to foster within the community and lets all the facts come out.” “We’ve seen a lot of departments have a bunker mentality and sort of enclose themselves and not be real open with the public,” he said. The video was released Friday after the department showed it to Walker’s family and local leaders in an attempt to quell tensions in the community, Mahan said. The January 17 incident outside Old Agency Baptist Church is the first officer-involved shooting captured by a body camera. In Muskogee, about 50 of its 88 police officers started wearing body cameras in November, according to department spokesman Sgt. The New York Police Department, the nation’s largest, launched a pilot body-camera program in December. President Barack Obama recently announced a $263 million package to help local police departments buy 50,000 cameras.
Since Ferguson, Missouri, teen Michael Brown’s death prompted a national move to put body cameras on all America’s police officers, scenes like the one captured in the body-cam video from Muskogee will likely become more common. “Why did (Walker) have to do that?” he asked as other officers comforted him. Later, the video shows an emotional McMillin leaning against a police car. In the video, Walker is seen as he tumbles to the ground, then rolls into a ditch. Walker turned around, then started running. The graphic video shows McMillin pulling his pistol, taking aim and unloading five shots. Walker, 21, is seen stopping suddenly and bending down to pick up something he dropped on the road.
Officer Chansey McMillin gave chase, his body-cam capturing his shadow as he trailed the suspect in the afternoon light of January 17. An Oklahoma police officer’s body camera captured the fatal shooting of a man who ran after being patted down.