Anchorage constabulary fatally changeable 34-year-old Kristopher Handy connected May 13, 2024. (Courtesy of Handy family)

The family of a man fatally changeable by Anchorage constabulary past week is calling connected nan metropolis to merchandise body-worn camera footage of nan incident. 

Anchorage Police Chief Bianca Cross initially said nan man, 34-year-old Kristopher Handy, pointed a weapon astatine officers earlier they changeable and killed him. But a neighbour later released information footage that she says shows Handy did not raise his gun. 

His brother, Travis Handy, said his family is demanding that nan constabulary main aliases nan mayor’s agency merchandise nan constabulary footage of nan shooting to nan nationalist — immediately. 

“They don’t judge that nan video tells nan full story,” he said. “But you know, they person six different videos for assemblage cameras and 2 dash cameras pinch different angles of what transpired that night.”

Cross released a connection Thursday saying nan information footage, “appears to galore to disagree from nan first connection we provided regarding nan event.” But she besides cautioned that video does not seizure galore specifications including what happened extracurricular nan camera’s position and “the quality constituent of those involved.”

The Handy family said that Cross called them Monday afternoon, and expressed her condolences complete nan decease of Kristopher. She besides reiterated that nan constabulary assemblage camera footage would only beryllium released erstwhile an soul and authorities investigation connected nan shooting is completed.  

APD spokeswoman Renee Oistad said Cross was pursuing nan department’s modular process for notifying nan organization of an officer-involved shooting erstwhile she held a property convention past Monday, earlier reviewing nan assemblage camera footage.

“We will reappraisal that process,” she added.

Organizers are readying a rally for Kristopher Handy connected Saturday astatine 2 p.m. to telephone connected nan constabulary section to merchandise nan assemblage camera footage of his shooting.

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