Body camera video shows Ohio police officers shoot, kill Milwaukee man blocks from RNC perimeter

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The national spotlight is shining even brighter on Milwaukee Tuesday night, for the wrong reasons.

Tuesday afternoon, out of town police officers shot and killed a Milwaukee man just blocks away from the RNC perimeter.

Columbus, Ohio police officers shot and killed the man near 14th and Vliet. 

A family is now grieving the death, multiple agencies are investigating, and community groups are outraged, saying this is what they feared when the city brought in more than 100 outside law enforcement agencies. 

Body camera CBS 58 obtained shows the shooting. We froze the video before the man is shot. 

According to MPD, 13 Columbus officers were staged near 14th and Vliet for a daily briefing. At roughly 1:10 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, the officers saw a man with a knife in each hand threaten an unarmed man. They told him to drop the knives; he did not. 

"The subject refused these commands and charged at the other individual with the knives," said Milwaukee Police Department Chief Jeffrey Norman. 

Five officers opened fire. Surveillance video from a nearby business also shows the altercation.

A witness told us she saw the man trying to put the knives down. 

"As he went to go drown down and bring his weapons to the ground, they shot him. Over 20 times."

The Columbus Fraternal Order of Police addressed the shooting Tuesday evening in Ohio.

"I believe the officers who fired their weapons...I can assure you they will be coming back. As soon as the investigation allows them to," said Brian Steel, president, Lodge #9 of the Fraternal Order of Police. 

A short time after the shooting, a woman said the victim was her cousin, identifying him as Samuel Sharpe, Jr., an unhoused Milwaukee man in his 40s. 

"Stop killing people's families. Y'all came into his neighborhood. He had a dog there, he loved people, he loved animals. And y'all came and shot him down," said Linda Sharpe. 

A nearby pastor says King Park has a populous tent community, and several of the residents have mental health challenges. 

"Even though the brother, and I don't know which one it was - I know I hugged a whole lot of them last Saturday," said Radonte Ashford, pastor at The Infinite Church. "I don't know who it was, but I do know that this brother's life is not going to be in vain."

The shooting happened just blocks from the RNC perimeter, where Tuesday's convention theme was "Make America Safe Again."

The Milwaukee Alliance just coordinated a protest march on day one of the RNC; Columbus officers were there. 

After Tuesday's shooting, Alliance members were furious, saying it was exactly what they feared when the city brought in more than 100 outside law enforcement agencies. 

"We told them, you're going to bring a whole bunch of outside agitators to our city and look what they're going to do. And they did it today. We're not even two days into this RNC and we have a casualty," said Alan Chavoya, Milwaukee Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.