Johnson County

Yeah.

On Monday, attorneys for McConnell's family released body camera footage of the May 1st shooting near Pittsville in the unincorporated Johnson County, Missouri.

They said, quotations, trying to find a black kid at night, Holmberg could be heard saying on his body camera.

He said, that's always fun.

"Trying to find a Black kid tonight.

That's always fun." Then you shoot him nine times, five after which he's on the ground.

Well, the Johnson County prosecutor, Rob Russell, declined to file charges against Officer Louie, arguing that McConnell made a motion towards his waist.

Well, the family's attorneys say the teen was trying to pull up his pants after being ordered to the ground.

The two publicly released videos from Holmberg's camera do not show the impact.

In his decision not to charge Louie, Johnson County prosecuting attorney Robert Russell said that Louie unintentionally struck McConnell with his car.

But McConnell managed to stand back up.

He had his hands in the air with Louis pointing a gun at him, ordering him to get on the ground when Holmberg walked up with his taser in his hands.

Gotta be perfect.

They said that action made the deputy believe McConnell was reaching for a gun.

Kansas City Defender, which is a black-led nonprofit news site, first published the body cam footage in September after Johnson County prosecuting attorney Robert Russell announced he would not charge Louie.

The defender sharply criticized Russell's decision, demanded that prosecutors reopen the case to investigate why Louie kept shooting after McConnell fell to the ground.

But I wanna just set the stage and, you know, share with you what was going on leading up to this, right? So McConnell is believed to be involved in a shooting that happened earlier in that evening.

So these body camera videos are, like, 3:00, 4:00 in the morning on May 1st, and a few hours prior, McConnell is believed to be involved in some shooting that happened near Highway 50 and Highway 131 in Johnson County, Missouri.

So what you'll hear is you'll hear, first off, a couple of law enforcement folks.

They have McConnell, along with some friend or some cohort, on the side of the interstate.

He runs away from law enforcement.

I mean, just full-blown sprint.

It's the dead of night, 3:00 in the morning, Johnson County, Missouri, and this kid just makes a run for it.

Not a kid, he's 19, but this young man makes a run for it, right? I mean, that, that's mistake number one, and it's a pretty big mistake.

a little... hey first off guys good to talk with you jen hope you're doing well listen yeah i've got a little whiplash uh there are 1.2 million missouri voters who also have whiplash who voted in the primary for the candidate they wanted to see in these new congressional districts of missouri first map who've now been disenfranchised thanks to the missouri supreme court and uh folks at the u.s supreme court who ended up not really even deciding the constitutionality of what the missouri first map is all about and that is that the state legislature should determine the time place and manner of elections and uh that never got resolved i think that was a disservice but here we are we're back to the original uh 2022 maps and we'll uh have boone county and I'm headed this morning to University of Central Missouri in the Warrensburg area.

We were losing Johnson County.

We were losing Saline, Lafayette.

Big counties, big supporters there.