Drunk native woodcarver was shot and killed by a two year veteran police officer within seconds of the officer engaging with him on the street. Officer claimed that he felt his life was in danger because the woodcarver (who is well known to cops on that beat) threatened him with a knife.

From Cienna Madrid's post at The Stranger blog: Yesterday afternoon, Officer Grant Leavitt—the first responding officer on scene at the John T. Williams shooting—testified that no one other than Officer Ian Birk touched or moved the knife that Williams was holding (the knife he was supposedly threatening Birk with). That knife—two knives, actually—were found closed near Williams' body. Leavitt arrived on the corner of Boren Avenue and Howell Street roughly two minutes after Birk fatally shot Williams.

Here's the in-car video taken from Leavitt's car, which jurors saw for the first time on Monday. Note the large metal traffic control box Birk is standing directly next to. Birk testified that he didn't move after shooting Williams. That box would've made a pretty good cover from a knife attack, wouldn't it?