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Body camera footage released Thursday shows NYPD officers shooting and killing a gender-transitioning man armed with a knife during a bloody domestic feud in a Lower East Side apartment.
“I’m gonna kill this b----!” Joshua Rembert-Williams, 32, screamed right before two 7th Precinct officers opened fire inside the apartment he shared with husband Worth Williams on Cherry St. near Pike Slip on the Lower East Side on Feb. 8, 2019.
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Body camera footage shows gender-transitioning man grab knife, rush at husband before cops shoot him in Lower East Side apartment
By JOHN ANNESE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
JAN 21, 2021 AT 7:57 PM
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Body camera footage released Thursday shows NYPD officers shooting and killing a gender-transitioning man armed with a knife during a bloody domestic feud in a Lower East Side apartment.
“I’m gonna kill this b----!” Joshua Rembert-Williams, 32, screamed right before two 7th Precinct officers opened fire inside the apartment he shared with husband Worth Williams on Cherry St. near Pike Slip on the Lower East Side on Feb. 8, 2019.
that the couple was fighting in recent months because Rembert-Williams was undergoing hormone therapy to transition into a woman. The husband was against the transition, the relative said.
Worth Williams locked himself in the bathroom and called 911, telling the dispatcher that Rembert-Williams attacked him and violated an order of protection.
When police arrived, Officer Nelson Cordova found Rembert-Williams hiding in a closet, calm and holding a cell phone.
“Boss, let me see your hands, make sure you’ve got nothing on you,” the officer said, and Rembert-Williams responded, “No, just my phone.”
Cordova asked Rembert-Williams to step into the hallway. What happened next went down in the blink of an eye: Rembert-Williams rushed for a kitchen drawer, grabbed a long knife, and bolted toward Williams.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop, police, don’t move!” Cordova yelled, as Rembert-Williams pushed past Officer Jagdeep Singh.
Rembert-Williams lifted the knife and pointed it at Williams’ head, and the officers fired seven shots.
A relative told the Daily News that the couple was fighting in recent months because Rembert-Williams was undergoing hormone therapy to transition into a woman. The husband was against the transition, the relative said.
Worth Williams locked himself in the bathroom and called 911, telling the dispatcher that Rembert-Williams attacked him and violated an order of protection.
These dude's are black
Manhattan, is this Harlem
