From [HERE] Mother of man killed by Wichita police in Dollar General robbery speaks out Doris Johnson first saw the store videos of her son getting shot to death 17 days ago. She sees it replay in her dreams every night, the bullets hitting him as he staggers out the store in a shower of shattered door glass.

Police released the videos Aug. 28, hoping to show that they had no choice in shooting DeJuan Colbert as he robbed a Dollar General store in south Wichita on Oct. 30. They say the videos, and the still-photo screen grabs they released with it, show that Colbert rushed three police officers at the store’s front doors holding a knife. Prosecutors on Aug. 28 announced, based in part on the videos, that the officers were justified in shooting Colbert 15 times.

Johnson sees it all differently. She said it took her 17 days to feel strongly enough about it to make a public statement on Thursday. She said the video shows cold-blooded murder. She said she does not see a knife, and that the video clearly shows her son trying to run away, rather than hurt anyone.

The store videos show an officer entering the store, gun drawn. It then shows Colbert running toward the officer at the door with an object in his hands. In the video the object looks like a bag of money - not a knife. Officer claims that he did not follow commands but he begins shooting while he is making the command. The officer fires when Colbert is only about a foot away, and other officers behind the first one open fire, too. Colbert staggers at the door entrance, and collapses as glass shatters in both doors and cascades down onto the pavement where Colbert falls.