A man threatens to kill himself. The police officers try to overpower him with a shot in the leg. The man dies. He is the second dead within a few days after a police operation.
After another death after a police operation in Mannheim, an autopsy is to clarify the cause of death. An investigating judge ordered a “prompt” examination, as announced by the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) in Baden-Württemberg. It took over the investigation. In the sights of the investigators: the police use of firearms.
As the public prosecutor’s office and LKA announced on Tuesday, a previously injured 31-year-old died after a police shot in the leg. This was preceded by a domestic violence operation. Before the police arrived, the 31-year-old allegedly threatened to kill himself during an argument with his mother and inflicted serious cuts and stab wounds on himself. According to the LKA, the police officers called tried to overwhelm the man with tear gas. When that didn’t work, there was a “targeted shot in the 31-year-old’s leg”. Shortly thereafter, the man who is said to have been in a mental state of emergency died.
In Mannheim, an incident only caused outrage about a week ago: on May 2, a 47-year-old died there after a police check in the hospital. Videos are circulating on the Internet that are supposed to show the operation. In it, an officer hits the head of a man lying on the ground. These film sequences and other information from witnesses are being examined by investigative authorities. According to earlier authorities, the man’s body showed signs of blunt force trauma, but they were “of low intensity”. How the man died is still unclear.