Police body camera footage showing an Arkansas cop shooting a Black man fleeing a traffic stop was leaked to the public – despite a judge having ordered it sealed during the felony trial of the police officer.

The 2023 video shows Little Rock Police Officer Johvoni McClendon, who is also Black, ordering at gunpoint the driver of a pickup truck to step out of the vehicle, which he did.

But Brenden Johnson, 20, climbed from the back seat of the truck into the driver’s seat and began driving away, prompting McClendon to fire three times.

Johnson claimed he was in fear for his life, believing the truck was going to strike him, but the video shows he opened fire from the side of the truck. Johnson was struck in the left temple but survived the shooting.

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