The graphic video shows McMillin pulling his pistol, taking aim and unloading five shots. Walker appears to turn around and start running. He was struck three times, police said. In the video, Walker is seen tumbling to the ground and then rolling into a ditch. He died at the scene.
Later, the video shows an emotional McMillin leaning against a police car. “Why did (Walker) have to do that?” he asked as other officers comforted him.
Since Ferguson, Missouri, teen Michael Brown’s death prompted a national move to put body cameras on all America’s police officers, scenes like the one captured in the body-cam video from Muskogee will likely become more common.
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Mahan defended the video’s release.
“What we’re trying to do is to set a standard for the nation and say that we believe that openness and transparency is the best policy,” he said.
