BART Releases Video Of Deadly Shooting

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Officials have released surveillance video of the fatal shooting by transit officers earlier this month at a Bay Area Rapid Transit Station.

The video released Thursday comes after 45-year-old Charles Hill was slain July 3 by BART officers at the Civic Center/UN Plaza station in San Francisco.

Hill was shot in the torso by BART officers who were responding to a report of what was termed a "wobbly drunk." The officers say he came at them with a knife.

The video shows two BART officers getting off a train and one of them drawing his gun and firing.

The video released does not show Hill, but officials say an object seen in the video was a knife thrown by Hill.

The transit agency has been battling an image problem after a white officer fatally shot an unarmed black passenger on New Year's Day 2009 at a station in Oakland.

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