An Asian American police officer in Virginia attempted to do a welfare check at an apartment complex on Sept. 16. Once the occupant opened the door, she lunged at the officer with a knife. The person, 33-year-old Sydney Wilson, a black woman, continued to rush the officer while wielding the knife, even with repeated, urgent calls by the officer to back up. The officer, bleeding from cuts to his face, shot Wilson multiple times. Wilson died at the hospital. The bodycam footage is disturbing, to say the least. 

At a press conference on Monday discussing the release of the footage, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said of the officer, “He did the things that we trained him and expect him to do when you’re threatened like that. If you can tactically reposition yourself, you do it. If you can use distance, use it. If you can seek cover and concealment, seek it. All those options weren’t available to him.”