Incident: Sept. 28, 2017 A Salt Lake City police officer who fatally shot a man after a violent confrontation at a Maverik station in September was legally justified in using deadly force, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said. Police released body camera footage showing the man, 39-year-old Michael Bruce Peterson, acting erratically and assaulting police officer Gregory Lovell with his own baton just before Lt. Andrew Oblad shot and killed Peterson. Lovell had responded to the reports of a man trespassing at a building that houses a massage school and beauty salons at 363 S. 500 East, where he had allegedly grabbed a woman’s buttocks. The officer followed Peterson, a recently released prison parolee, down 300 South toward the Maverik parking lot, telling him to stop and talk. Peterson got into the driver’s seat of a stranger’s jeep in the Maverik parking lot. After Peterson refused to get out of the jeep, Lovell used the Taser on him. Peterson shouted profanities, jumped out of the jeep, and assaulted the officer. Lovell tried the Taser again, which reportedly didn’t phase Peterson. The video shows Peterson punching and chasing an officer, who backed away, fell, and reached for his baton. The baton rolled away from the officer, and then Peterson grabbed it and beat the officer. When a man who had been standing at a gas pump saw the officer use his Taser, he jumped into his truck, locked his doors, and started recording the assault. Oblad reported that he responded to Lovell’s call for backup and arrived to see blood on Lovell’s face. He tried to draw Peterson away from the officer by ordering him to stop. The video shows Peterson taking a batter’s stance with the baton as he ran at Oblad. Subscribe to Police: https://www.youtube.com/c/policeglobal?sub_confirmation=1 Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. #Police #ProtectandServe