Baltimore Co. Police Release Video Of Pikesville Police-Involved Shooting

Baltimore County Police on Wednesday released body camera footage of the Pikesville police-involved shooting.

Warning: The videos may be disturbing to some viewers.

The incident, still under investigation, saw an Officer Remmers fire once at Bryant Junious Palmer, 48, who lived in an apartment in the 4600 block of Debilen Circle. Police released videos from the cameras worn by both Remmers and the other officer at the scene. Department policy is to only release the last names of officers involved in shootings. Remmers has been on the force for seven years, and has no previous shooting incidents on his record.

Police said Palmer moved toward the officers in a threatening manner, an account supported by the video. After officers arrive to the apartment's front door and turn on the audio recording on their body cameras,the man emerges from the apartment and, with a knife in his hand, moves toward police. The officers retreat down the stairs behind him and Remmers fires one shot from near the building's front door. Nobody else was in the apartment at the time.

This is the first time that Baltimore County Police have released body camera video of a police-involved shooting. Police released body-worn camera video from the scene of Korryn Gaines' shooting death at her apartment in Randallstown earlier this year, but none of the officers in the standoff with Gaines had yet been equipped or trained with body cameras. After Gaines' death, police sped up the rollout of their nascent body camera program.

Palmer is charged with three counts of first-degree assault and related charges. Police didn't have information on Palmer's bail status or current condition, though they've noted he suffered non-life threatening injuries and is expected to survive. The incident remains under investigation by the police homicide unit, a routine step for police-involved shootings, after which it will be reviewed by county prosecutors, police said.

This article has been edited to reflect that it's unknown where the other voice on the video came from.