Louisiana Police Officer Arrested in Killing of Unarmed Black Man

A review of the body camera footage from that night shows Mr. Bagley opening the door while holding a bottle of liquor. Mr. Bagley at first declined to let officers into the apartment but then told them he would need to put his dog away. He then walked down a hallway into a bedroom and closed the door behind him. When the two officers entered the bedroom, Mr. Bagley jumped down from a second-floor balcony to the ground. Both officers then ran after Mr. Bagley, with Officer Tyler taking the lead. Officer Tyler, who ran with his gun drawn, shot Mr. Bagley in the chest moments later.

“Oh God, you shot me,” Mr. Bagley said, as he slumped the ground.

Officer Tyler can be heard shouting “no, no, no,” repeatedly as his partner begins CPR. “Come on man,” Officer Tyler cried. “Stay with me man.”

Mr. Bagley was transported to Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport, where he was pronounced dead. Officer Tyler was placed on paid administrative leave.In a statement on Thursday, Dhu Thompson, a lawyer for Officer Tyler, said, “While we are disappointed in the decision by the State Police to arrest Officer Tyler, we are confident that the facts in court will show that he was placed in an unfortunate but necessary situation and will be exonerated of these charges.”

Mr. Bagley’s family has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Officer Tyler. This was not Mr. Bagley’s first violent encounter with the police.

In 2019, Mr. Bagley sued the Shreveport Police Department, claiming officers had used excessive force against him while responding to a domestic dispute in January 2018.

Ronald Haley, a lawyer for Mr. Bagley’s family, said that Mr. Bagley and the Police Department had settled the lawsuit.

At a news conference on Thursday, Mr. Haley said that training of police officers remained an issue. He pointed to the speed at which the encounter went from conversation to fatality — just over a minute — and the larger “bias against Black and brown men” in the United States.