The two officers stood at the van’s rear passenger door, attempting to identify Chatman and talk him out of the vehicle during those 15 minutes. Chatman told officers his name is “Junior,” according to the video.

“All I want to know is who you are,” one of the officers can be heard telling Chatman in the video.

Chatman challenged the officers’ jurisdiction several times and asked the police officers to contact their superiors. This back and forth persisted until Parsons arrived with a pepper-ball gun. The sergeant, Tuell said, told Chatman what the pepper-ball gun was, what he would do with it and when he would use it.

“(If) you step out here, you go in handcuffs; you can give her a kiss,” a Gang Unit officer tells Chatman. “We can do this the hard way, or we can do it that way. That’s it.”

Less than 10 seconds after the first pepper ball was fired, Chatman began shooting his gun, police said. The officers returned fire and sought cover. An officer pulled the sergeant to cover after he was wounded.

The sergeant “continued to command the scene after he was shot,” Tuell said. “I can tell you I don’t know a whole lot of people with that work ethic.”