On Friday, Kentucky police showed a video from an officer’s body camera that showed a Louisville Metropolitan Police officer shooting at two teens during a trespassing call.

Officer Brendan Kaiser can be seen with his gun drawn as he walks up to the garage of a vacant house in Chicasaw in the video, which was released more than a week after the 20th.

In a news release that went with the video, the police said, “They could hear movement inside the garage and drew their weapons because they didn’t know who was inside, how many people were inside, or if any of them were armed.”

He figures out that there are people inside the building and calls for another officer to come help.

Below is the video released by Louisville Police:

The officer says on his radio, “They just tried to get away.” “There will be more than one of us. I just locked them out of the garage. I got them caught. They’re probably trying to get out the window, I think.”

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Teenager Got Hurt

The garage doors fly open all at once, and two teens start to run away. As Officer Kaiser walks up to them, he fires his gun.

The two young people who were at the scene say they were hurt in the shooting and went to nearby hospitals. The LMPD, on the other hand, said there are reasons to think this claim isn’t true.

“During the incident, neither the officers nor the person who was being held was hurt,” the agency said. “There was also nothing at the scene that would have shown that anyone had been hurt.”

Mr. Kaiser was hired in 2016, and he is now on administrative leave while the LMPD looks into what happened.

Lawyers for the teens who were hurt say that the officer has a long history of using too much force.

Sam Aguiar, an attorney, told the Louisville Courier-Journal that this officer has acted in ways that should have been a warning sign. “The department needs to explain right away why his previous mistakes didn’t lead to training and corrective action.”

In 2018, Mr. Kaiser was found not guilty of shooting and killing a man who, according to the LMPD, had thrown a knife at the officer.

He was also reprimanded more than once and suspended for a short time for breaking department rules about de-escalation and using “inappropriate force” on a child.

After the killing of Breonna Taylor in a no-knock police raid in 2020, which caused a lot of anger, the Department of Justice said in 2021 that it would look into the Louisville police department.

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