Bodycam Shows LAPD Cop Shooting Woman Armed With Knife

(Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) Los Angeles, California On February 21, 2020, around 1:29 a. m., Southeast Patrol officers, on loan to 77th Division, responded to a radio call of unknown trouble. The female caller was requesting police at 78th Street and South Hoover Street. Upon their arrival, the officers encountered a female seated between two parked vehicles and attempted to ascertain if she was the source of the radio call. The female, later identified as Dorothy Kolen, was not fully engaging the officers in conversation, so the officers requested further information from Communications Division. As the officers were speaking to Kolen, one officer attempted to assist her to a standing position. When the officer held Kolen s arm, she pulled away and produced a kitchen knife with an approximate eightinch blade.