The Minneapolis Police Department on Friday released body camera footage of two recent deadly force incidents — the May 30 shooting that killed Officer Jamal Mitchell and the June 12 shooting of an armed suspect.

May 30 shooting of Officer Jamal Mitchell and MPD response

Video of the May 30 incident shows Mitchell arriving at the scene of a reported shooting near the intersection of 22nd Street and Blaisdell Avenue.

“It looks like we have at least two victims outside at the location, bleeding,” Mitchell communicates over the radio before stepping out of his squad.

The shooter, 35-year-old Mustafa Mohamed, is lying on the ground in the street, appearing to be hurt.

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“Who shot you? Who shot you?” Mitchell asks before putting on blue latex gloves, preparing to give first aid. “Are there victims inside?” he continues, waving toward a nearby apartment building.

That’s when the video shows Mohamed pulling out a handgun. The footage ends before the suspect fires at Mitchell.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara appeared to be on the verge of tears while viewing the footage of his fallen colleague. The chief says Mitchell did what he was trained to do: help those in need.

“He was very suddenly and without provocation ambushed and assassinated,” O’Hara said.

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A second video captures Officer Luke Kittock’s point of view. He arrives at the scene a few minutes later, after Mustafa had already fired at responding officers, a firefighter, and several others.

Kittock gets out of a squad car carrying a rifle as sirens blare and emergency dispatches warn of the suspect “actively shooting” in the area. Civilians taking cover behind a parked SUV point Kittock and other officers in the direction of the gunman.

Kittock and Officer Nicholas Kapinos are seen firing several rounds toward Mustafa’s location before running up, taking cover behind a brick wall, and then advancing again once Mustafa is down. Mustafa was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say Mustafa had shot two people inside an apartment building before Mitchell’s arrival; 32-year-old Osman Said Jimale was pronounced dead on scene, while 36-year-old Mohamed Bashir Aden died a week later.

Watch the full news conference below:

June 12 shooting of Michael Ristow

A second set of body camera clips shows police officers fatally shooting 39-year-old Michael Warren Ristow the night of June 12.

Police had initially received a report of a person armed with a gun and talking to himself near the intersection of 29th Avenue South and Lake Street. A few minutes later, another call came in of an armed man waving a gun and acting strange on the 3400 block of Hiawatha Avenue.

Body camera video from Minneapolis police officers Chaz Wilson, Enoch Langford and Abdirizaq Mumin shows the officers making contact with Ristow and telling him, “Police! Stop! You’re under arrest!” before he takes off running south on Hiawatha.

The officers chase after him, and eventually, Ristow is backed against a chain-link fence. Langford is the first to reach Ristow, announcing the gun to his fellow officers and yelling at Ristow to drop the weapon.

At one point, Ristow appears to turn toward police with his gun drawn. That’s when the officers open fire. Police say Ristow’s gun was jammed when officers recovered it.

All three officers who shot at Ristow are on leave. None of them were injured.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating both use-of-force incidents.

Critics react to “subjective” edits

MPD decided to release body camera videos of these deadly encounters at the same time, and some community members noticed a remarkable difference in how they were redacted.

“It was very disappointing, what I’ve seen,” said Al Flowers, the communications director for the Unity Community Mediation Team, which is calling on MPD and the BCA to release the full video of the Mitchell shooting. “He lost his life. He came here to do the right thing and he lost his life. It was ugly, but you’ve got to tell the truth.”

The organization points out that the agency shares body camera footage showing community members being killed. They are urging the release of the full shooting to “recognize how ugly the assassination of this public servant was.”

“When George Floyd was killed, it was atrocious, and we saw it, and I believe that Jamal Mitchell deserves that same respect,” Flowers said. “It happened, and we should not sugarcoat it one way or the other.”

During Friday’s press conference, O’Hara explained that he expressed to the BCA the importance of releasing the video. It’s part of an ongoing investigation, however, so the edited version is what the BCA was comfortable making public, according to O’Hara.

The chief explained he shared it to provide context as to what Mitchell encountered in his final moments.

“Officer Mitchell’s video is not required to be released under the statute,” O’Hara said. “Officer Mitchell never even had the chance to draw his handgun.”

In the slide presentation for both the videos of Mitchell’s killing and the shooting death of Ristow, MPD said state statute allows the department to redact portions of the video “if those portions of data are clearly offensive to common sensibilities.”

“What this does is set a standard that does require them to make a good faith assessment essentially whether the footage is so graphic it would be extremely disturbing for individuals to see,” said Jane Kirtley, a media ethics and law professor at the University of Minnesota. “It is extremely subjective.”

She explained the language is part of the statute that also compels law enforcement to release body camera footage after a deadly use of force incident. The law allows agencies to hold off on making footage public if it could hurt an investigation.

“This is a fairly common provision to see in statutes around the country,” said Kirtley.

She added, “I can certainly understand that they would have heightened sensitivity when one of their own has been killed, but on the other hand, the extraordinary impact this is having — not just on the police force but the community as a whole — I think would argue on the side of more disclosure rather than less.”