Police who fatally shot armed man took 'necessary' steps, commissioner says

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South Australian police have launched an investigation, after officers shot and killed a man during a confrontation at a home in Adelaide’s south. Police allege the man threatened them with a knife, before they opened fire.

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00:00Well, police say that it was just after midnight when emergency services were called to this

00:07Craigburn farm home over a mental health incident after reports that a man was injuring himself.

00:13Now, police said that they entered the home to try and speak to this 40-year-old man but

00:17that he allegedly threatened them with a knife.

00:20They say that he continued to do so after police unsuccessfully attempted to taser

00:25him.

00:26The incident shot the man before he was rushed to hospital where he sadly later died.

00:31So, Saints Police Commissioner Grant Stephens says that this was a highly stressful and

00:35dangerous situation.

00:36Here's what he had to say.

00:39I can say having watched the body-worn video that this was a highly stressful, dangerous

00:44situation and the police officers appear at this time to have acted in accordance with

00:48their training and taken the action necessary to protect themselves and the ambulance officers

00:53who were on the scene.

00:56Commissioner Stephens says that there will be an investigation into this, a commissioner's

01:01inquiry.

01:02Now, the Police Association SA President Wade Burns says that support was being provided

01:06to these police officers and police say that none of them were injured.

01:10Now, a report will also be prepared for the coroner.

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