The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department released a video Monday of body camera footage of officers responding to the May 16 tornado that hit St. Louis and killed five people.
In the 2陆-minute edited video, officers climb through debris and talk to residents who are trapped in their homes.
In one of the clips, an officer stands perched near a building on a pile of drywall and bricks.
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The person responds that they cannot.
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The video shows other officers climbing into windows, responding to people trapped in collapsed buildings and transporting an elderly woman with oxygen issues to a hospital.
There has been criticism of the emergency response after the tornado. Victims who were in Centennial Christian Church when it collapsed told 漏 2024 外网天堂 their calls to 911 redirected to the nonemergency response line. A spokesperson for SLMPD said the department was slammed with hundreds of emergency calls in the hours after the tornado.
