VIDEO: San Francisco police shoot and kill stabbing suspect

Five San Francisco police officers fatally shot a man Wednesday in the city’s Bayview District, a scene that was apparently captured by an eyewitness and uploaded to Instagram, the San Francisco Examiner reported.

San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said the man, who appeared to be carrying a kitchen knife, matched the description of a suspect who had stabbed someone in the area 45 minutes before the police shooting.

Suhr said police had recovered eyewitness footage of the shooting that showed the officers surrounding the suspect, adding that it also showed “the suspect moving toward the officer before the shots were fired.”

Suhr did not confirm if this was the same video that appeared on Instagram later Wednesday, which showed the officers encircling the man at gunpoint. The video was shot aboard a bus by a bystander, while an off-screen voice shouts, “Just drop it!” More than five officers can be seen in the video.

Shortly after, the man staggers alongside the wall of a building before the camera pulls away while at least 15 gunshots can be heard on the recording.

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Before the fatal shooting, police had shot the man several times with lead-filled beanbags, the chief said, adding that he was uncertain how many shots rang out.

The suspect “had already demonstrated, by committing a felony aggravated assault, that he was a danger to others, so he could not be allowed to move away from the scene,” Suhr told reporters.

After watching the eyewitness footage, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi told SFGate that the man “was not posing a direct threat” and didn’t require deadly force.

The man, who was not identified, was shot at 4:35 p.m., the chief said. Paramedics that arrived at the scene could not resuscitate him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.