ORANGE, Calif. — California police shot and killed a shirtless, knife-wielding man whom they had forced out of his locked minivan with a firehose after witnessing him pouring gasoline on a rag and lighting a cigarette, authorities said. Parts of the strange-then-violent standoff were captured on close-up, professionally shot video aired by KABC-TV, though Perez is partially blocked from view by another vehicle. The video shows the water spraying as police use batons to break the van’s windows then shows Perez climbing out head-first through the driver’s side window. A non-lethal round of rubber projectiles was ineffective so officers used lethal force, Lopez said. “I had never seen anything like that,” said Fabian Huerta, who watched with surprise as police started spraying water into the van.

Source: National Post March 14, 2017 15:45 UTC