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On a dark Salt Lake City street after a short chase, police officers approached 13-year-old Linden Cameron screaming orders.
“Get on the ground now!” one officer yelled, according to body camera footage released Monday.
Another yelled, “Pull your hands out!”
The first officer then fired nearly a dozen times at the boy, gravely injuring him.
“Show me your hands!” the officer continued to yell after Linden had fallen to the ground.
“I don’t feel good,” the boy said. “Tell my mom I love her.”
The body camera footage, released Monday by the police department, doesn’t illuminate why the officer felt he needed to fire at Linden, who is autistic and was having a mental health episode. And the police didn’t answer any questions during a five-minute news conference about the shooting, which has garnered national attention.