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Nashville officer in shooting loses police power amid review

CORRECTS SPELLING OF FIRST NAME TO CHELESY, NOT CHELSEY - Defense attorney Joy Kimbrough, addresses the media outside the Nashville Metro Courthouse, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn, as Chelesy Eastep, third from left, is comforted. Authorities on the day before had pleaded with 37-year-old Landon Eastep to surrender while keeping him at gunpoint, but killed him when he pulled another shiny object from his pocket and pointed it at police as if ready to shoot. That object turned out not to be a gun. Kimbrough called the shooting a “firing squad execution.”(AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi) CORRECTS SPELLING OF FIRST NAME TO CHELESY, NOT CHELSEY - Defense attorney Joy Kimbrough, addresses the media outside the Nashville Metro Courthouse, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn, as Chelesy Eastep, third from left, is comforted. Authorities on the day before had pleaded with 37-year-old Landon Eastep to surrender while keeping him at gunpoint, but killed him when he pulled another shiny object from his pocket and pointed it at police as if ready to shoot. That object turned out not to be a gun. Kimbrough called the shooting a “firing squad execution.”(AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi) This still image from police body cam released by Metropolitan Nashville Police Department shows officers pleading with a man to surrender before shooting him on Jan. 28, 2022 in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee police officers repeatedly pleaded with a man who stopped traffic along Interstate 65 to drop a box cutter and surrender, saying no one wanted to hurt him. Instead, he abruptly pulled another shiny object from his pocket and pointed it at police as if ready to shoot, prompting nine of the officers who surrounded him at gunpoint to open fire, killing him on the highway, according to officials and body camera video. (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via AP) This still image from police body cam released by Metropolitan Nashville Police Department shows officers pleading with a man to surrender before shooting him on Jan. 28, 2022 in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee police officers repeatedly pleaded with a man who stopped traffic along Interstate 65 to drop a box cutter and surrender, saying no one wanted to hurt him. Instead, he abruptly pulled another shiny object from his pocket and pointed it at police as if ready to shoot, prompting nine of the officers who surrounded him at gunpoint to open fire, killing him on the highway, according to officials and body camera video. (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via AP)