Body-cam footage shows Ohio man killed by police after struggle in hospital
by Associated Press from on (#5GMAK)
Miles Jackson killed after officers conducted pat-down and found gun in his waistband, prompting standoff inside hospital room
Officers conducting a routine pat-down of a man in a hospital emergency room found a gun in his waistband, spurring a struggle over the weapon and a standoff that ended in officers killing him, according to police body-camera footage released on Wednesday.
Officers had been searching Miles Jackson, a black man, at the hospital on Monday in preparation for a custody exchange over warrants he had out for his arrest. Jackson began to struggle with the two officers after one of them felt the gun, video showed.
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