GRAPHIC WARNING: OKC police release videos taken during deadly hostage situation at jail

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Jesus, what a fucked up country we live in.

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Oklahoma City police released new videos taken during a hostage situation Saturday at the Oklahoma County Detention Center. The inmate who took a detention officer hostage was shot and killed by police. Police released video from inside the jail and from two officers' bodycam footage. We want to warn you that some of these videos are intense.

According to officials, Saturday evening, Oklahoma City police were called in after Curtis Williams, an Oklahoma County jail inmate, took a detention officer's keys, tied him up and took him hostage. Police said Williams then let out other inmates from their cells and then an inmate got ahold of the knife and stabbed the detention officer multiple times. Shortly after that, Williams got the knife again and held it to the officer’s throat as police arrived on scene.

"That's a very dangerous situation. I don't know why you'd put somebody on their knees unless your preparing to continue that assault further,” Police Chief Wade Gourley said.

https://www.koco.com/article/graphic-warning-okc-police-release-videos-taken-during-deadly-hostage-situation-at-jail/36017433#

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. "I don't know why you'd put somebody on their knees..."

Well, according to the people in the live stream, they were trying to call attention to the fact that the conditions inside the jail are abhorrent.

[drray23]

2. I thought officers could not hit the side of a barn.

This guy just pulled his handgun and shot the guy who was holding the other officer at knife point 20 feet away.