(UNCUT) Police Shoot Kill Man in Wheelchair, Jeremy McDole, in Wilmington, Delaware

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Please Comment, SUBSCRIBE, vote, check out the other videos on the Channel, and also hit the donate Support button to Help Us bring U more fresh content. HERE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjOxKWsEqwEp-tMCzPfmB8w/about #Wilmington, #Delaware Police fatally shot a 28-year old paralyzed man in a wheelchair on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, along the 1800 block of Tulip Street, after responding to a call that Jeremy McDole (his friends knew him as Bam), who lived in a nursing home, had a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "He pulled out his gun. He was trying to shoot himself up there," witness Sean Owens said Thursday. "I think he may have shot himself once or twice, but he shot the other shots in the air." #VIDEO of the shooting posted online, which the chief said appeared to be authentic, shows an Armed pig approaching the wheelchair bound & already injured Jeremy with a gun drawn, shouting "show me your hands" and "drop the gun." The Armed pig then shoots Mr McDole, which is verified by the ongoing commentary of the man filming the video. Other police #officers then appear in the video with their guns drawn, yelling similar commands. "Show me your hands! Drop the gun! Drop the gun!" officers continue to shout as McDole moves in the wheelchair. Additional police can be heard, but are blocked from view by a wall. Mr. McDole appeared to be bleeding profusely at this point, as he adjusted himself in the wheelchair. Jeremy moves around in his wheelchair and reaches into his jeans, but it's unclear from the video what he is doing. The officers, who are not in the video at this point, fire multiple shots and Brother McDole rolls to his left, falls out of his wheelchair and falls onto the ground dead. Police Chief Cummings said he was not aware of any attempt by officers to use nonlethal force before shooting McDole. He also would not say whether he thought the situation should have been handled differently. "Only our thorough investigation will reveal that," he said. The man died at the scene. Governor, Jack Markell, and Wilmington Mayor, Dennis Williams, have expressed their condolences to the family. Brother #McDole lived in a nearby nursing home, according to the Associated Press. Family members told local media that he had been using a wheelchair since he was shot and paralyzed at the age of 18. "The officers lined up as if they were in a firing squad," Robert Vozell, a friend of the family, angrily said, adding that the family needed financial help to bury McDole. McDole's uncle, Eugene Smith, was among a crowd of about a couple of dozen people who gathered Thursday at the scene of the shooting…"It was an execution. That's what it was. I don't care if he was black, white, whatever," Smith said. The “authorities” described a different scenario, saying the wheelchair bound man was pulling a handgun from his waist when officers shot him to death. Wilmington Holice Chief Bobby Cummings said during a news conference on Thursday (9/24/15) that the Armed pigs responded Wednesday (9/23) afternoon to a report of a man who shot himself and 28-year-old #JeremyMcDole was still armed with a handgun when they arrived and that a handgun was found by the side of this man fatally shot in a wheelchair. Interestingly, No gun, other than those belonging to the Armed Pigs, is visible in the video footage, yet the Holice made it a point to emphasize on Thursday they had recovered a .38-caliber handgun that they said had been at Mr. Jeremy's SIDE. Police Chief Bobby Cummings said he's watched the video and believes the officers acted professionally. A .38-caliber handgun was recovered, he said. "The officers perceived what was a threat and they responded and they engaged," Cummings said. Four officers were involved in the shooting, officials said. They have all been placed on administrative duty PAID leave. This naturally pissed-off McDole's mother, Phyllis McDole, who interrupted the briefing stating: "He was in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. There's video showing that he didn't pull a weapon ... I need answers," she said. "Why couldn't you tase this man out of his wheelchair," asked his sister, Letesha Green.