Just-released video shows the brawl that took place between an off-duty Kansas City firefighter and a police officer working security at a downtown hotel, moments before Officer Don Hubbard shot and killed Anthony Bruno.

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Newly-released video shows a fight between a Kansas City police officer and a Kansas City firefighter moments before the police officer fatally shot the firefighter.Anthony Bruno died of his injuries in the shooting outside a downtown hotel on Dec. 1.Officer Don Hubbard told investigators that if he had not used deadly force in this case, he was afraid Bruno would have killed him.Hubbard had been off duty on the night of the shooting, working security for the Marriott hotel. He responded to a report of a fight going on between some people and a cab driver.According to the police report, Bruno was attacking the cab driver in a dispute over a fare, but he ran away when Hubbard arrived. Hubbard chased Bruno through alleyways and caught up with him between 12th and 13th streets and Baltimore Avenue.The video shows Hubbard attempting to arrest Bruno, pleading with a group of bystanders who had recorded the incident on a cellphone to call for help.Ashely Janzen said her friend made the phone recording."At the beginning of the situation, we were just thinking, 'Oh, cop, calm down. This doesn't need to get out of hand,'" she said.Hubbard told detectives that Bruno flipped him over and said, 'You shouldn't have hit me," and then continued to punch him."He continued to strike me and I started to lose consciousness, and I believed the suspect was not going to stop hitting me until he killed me," Hubbard told investigators.Hubbard said he started to black out from blows to the head and decided to take out his gun and fire two shots at the center of Bruno's body.Janzen, a critical care nurse, said the shots made her nurse mode kick in."All you want to do is save somebody's life, and so you just go," she said.She started to perform CPR. She said she told police that Bruno pleaded with her not to let him die."If maybe he would have just accepted being detained, none of this would have happened," she said.Earlier this month, a Jackson County grand jury decided not to pursue charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action against Hubbard.