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Sam Levin in Los Angeles

California police fatally shot 23-year-old Black man as he ran away, video shows

A man stands on a city street wearing a blue graduation cap and gown.
Police shot and killed Robert Adams as he walked through a parking lot in San Bernardino, California. Photograph: Courtesy of Robert Adams's family

Police in San Bernardino, California, fatally shot a 23-year-old man on Saturday as he was fleeing, according to surveillance footage that shows an officer firing just seconds after arriving in an unmarked vehicle.

Security camera footage from a parking lot in San Bernardino, a city an hour east of Los Angeles, shows two officers driving up in an unmarked car at about 8pm as Robert Adams stood in the lot. As soon as two officers exited the car, Adams turned away from them and ran. It appeared that roughly five seconds after they had stepped out of the car, one of the officers fired at Adams from a distance, seeming to hit him and causing him to collapse to the ground.

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