A YouTube video captured Albers pointing his rifle at protesters on Aug. 19 but doesn't show what happened before that. (You can watch the video here, but warning, it contains profanity.)

Members of that crowd verbally confront the officer, who appears to say, “I will (expletive) kill you. Get back.”

Asked his name, he responded, “Go (expletive) yourself.”

Jimenez said that Albers raising his weapon was “totally justifiable.” Prior to the camera turning on, Albers had had water and urine thrown at him, Jimenez said. He then saw three men with bandanas in the crowd, and one of them had a gun. He then heard gunshots, but not from that gun. So Albers raised his gun. The three men started running, and then a crowd of people with cameras raised saw him with the raised gun and came toward him. They were “a whole bunch of what you'd call citizen journalists, who were sitting with cameras recording, waiting for something stupid to happen, which they got. They won on this one.”

Jimenez explained that Albers got scared when the crowd got close to him. “That's why he used those words,” he said. That still doesn't make the choice of words excusable, said Jimenez.