The shooting happened Wednesday evening at 3:15 p.m. at the Holiday Gas Station near East 36th Street and Cedar Avenue. Officers were engaged at a traffic stop with a deadly suspect when the exchange of fire and the suspected attack took place, police said. While police have yet to identify the man who died on the spot, a man who said he was the victim’s father is identified as 23-year-old Dolal Belle Eid.
Family ID man shot, killed during a traffic stop in Minneapolis
Body camera video shows officers who were part of the Community Response Team – a unit that often deals with high-risk crimes and situations – with guns aimed at a white car and officers are heard yelling at people in the vehicle to put their hands up. Above. The car backs up and then two Minneapolis police squads advance into the vehicles, officers are heard giving more orders to the captured people to put on their hands, and then the sound of a single bullet is heard and a hole appears in the front driver’s side window. White car. After another second, several shots are fired at the driver’s side of the car, and the driver’s door window is smashed. About a dozen shots can be heard before the 27-second video stops.
No officer was injured in the incident, police said.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Appeals is currently investigating.
Only one officer’s body camera footage was released. The city’s website says, “While the investigation and any subsequent proceedings or appeals are active, other footage is not available to the public and will not be posted. [online]”
Police Chief Madria Aradondo and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey held a press conference Thursday afternoon about the shooting and body camera video. Click the video below to watch it.
