A federal judge said Tuesday that a newly unsealed video casts doubt on statements made by San Francisco police officers about the deadly 2015 police shooting of Mario Woods. The video, taken by a Muni bus driver and obtained by KQED, appears to show Woods “take four slow steps with his right shoulder up against the building, walking with a heavy limp,” Judge William Orrick wrote in his ruling. Officers’ statements after the shooting say Woods was moving quickly toward an officer with a knife when police opened fire. Orrick ruled that a civil lawsuit filed by Mario Woods’ mother, Gwendolyn Woods, can go to trial.
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(Warning: disturbing content — profanity and graphic violence) Newly Unsealed Video of Mario Woods Shooting