Dramatic bodycam video shows Utah cops shooting fleeing man 20 times

Dramatic video has emerged showing Salt Lake City cops firing at least 20 rounds at a 22-year-old man running away from them after allegedly robbing a strip club at gunpoint, according to a report.

Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was fatally shot May 23 after police responded to a report of a gun threat and chased him for several blocks when he bolted from a motel, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

“Show me your hands!” one officer yells at Palacios-Carbajal as he starts to flee from the Utah Village Motel about 2 a.m., according to the newspaper.

During their pursuit, the cops shout at the suspect to “Drop it!” — as one officer says he sees something in the man’s pocket.

The footage captures Palacios-Carbajal falling and getting up twice during the chase before he falls a third time, picks up an object from the ground and continues running.

The officers then open fire, hitting him in the back, according to the report.

“Show me your f—ing hands!” one officer shouts at Palacios-Carbajal as he lies on the ground.

Police said they found a weapon near him after he was shot, though it didn’t appear — based on the bodycam footage from the three cops — that Palacios-Carbajal pointed a gun at them, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

“They didn’t have to kill him,” his sister Elsa Karina Palacios told the paper after watching the video Friday. “They didn’t have to shoot him so many times. He was running. He was scared. He would still be here.”

Asked if she wanted to say something to demonstrators in Salt Lake City who have been protesting police brutality, she answered: “I don’t even know what to say. I just wish he was here.”

The family’s attorneys, Jeremy Delicino and Steve McCaughey, said in a statement that Palacios-Carbajal posed no threat to the cops and did not confront them.

“He did not even turn to face them,” they said. “He ran away from them and yet was shot in the back before falling to the ground. And then Bernardo, lying lifeless on the asphalt, was shot more.”

They added: “It is now up to all of us, already grieving over the loss of so many young men to police brutality, to demand change. A change to police tactics … changes to the bias that pervades our police forces.

“A change to the system that has all too often allowed officers to escape discipline and prosecution,” they said.

The two cops who opened fire have been put on administrative leave, which is standard after a police shooting, and an investigation is ongoing, the news outlet reported.

“I trust our training. I trust in the investigative process we have in place to address officer-involved critical incidents. Most importantly, I trust our officers,” Police Chief Mike Brown said Friday.

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall called for a swift probe so “everyone can get the answers that they deserve in a timely manner.”

Mendenhall, who apologized to Palacios-Carbajal’s family, called the footage “genuinely disturbing and upsetting.”

“Right now, given all that our country is going through, in particular the rawness and fear that so many people of color are feeling, outrage is understandable,” she said.

“We have great work to do in the days and months ahead, and we must channel our collective anger into a process of progress and change,” Mendenhall added.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said in a tweet that “due process is expected.”

“Until all the facts are in we will not comment substantively on this ongoing investigation. We will, however, always decry disproportionate use of force. If there are findings of misconduct, we expect full accountability,” he said.

The release of the disturbing video came after a week of nightly protests in Salt Lake City in response to the death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police on May 25.