Chaplin came to tonights Police Commission meeting fresh from that Market Street drama. Four hours long. Which notably ended with an armed suicidal man in the hospital, not the morgue. From sky fox, a man prone on the pavement in front of the former Hibernia Bank of Market Street. Police giving him time and distance instead of rushing him with commands as they might have in the past. [ yelling ] reporter the confrontation began when officers saw the man behaving strangely, feared he was armed and demanded he show his hands which were out of view in his pockets. Then they fired beanbag rounds as he went down. He moved his hands a word. And they start shooting him. With beanbags. They could have cuffed him and took him, but no. This is a cousin of the suspect who believes the standoff could have been over in minutes not hours. S. W. A. T. Officers and 18 trained in crisis intervention recall as the man was suicidal asking police to shoot him. Streets were sealed off, service rerouted as
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