Three months after a sergeant from the 52nd Precinct fatally shot a Yonkers man following a traffic stop, the NYPD released body cam footage of the incident leading to the moments that went from jovial to chaotic in a matter of seconds.

The videos, released on Jan. 24 and posted onto YouTube, shows three angles recorded by the body cameras worn by the sergeant, identified as Sgt. Jonathan Rivera, and two officers, Edward Barrett and Michelle Almanzar, on Oct. 17, 2019 just before 3 p.m. The three had pulled over Allen Feliz, who police say was driving his 2018 Volkswagen Atlas without a seatbelt.

It began as a friendly conversation, with Rivera outside the passenger side, and Barrett politely asking where Feliz was headed and why he was in Norwood. Feliz said his girlfriend lived in the area and was on his way to pick up his daughter from school.

After Barrett ran Feliz’s driver’s license that was issued in Ohio, he told Rivera that Feliz’s name “popped,” police slang for when a warrant is active. Police would later reveal that Feliz had three outstanding warrants for minor infractions.

“You’re not in trouble, but I just gotta talk you,” said Barrett, asking Feliz to step out of the car.

After a quick pat down, Feliz rushes back into his car with Barrett attempting to keep him from driving off. Video from Rivera’s body cam shows him tasing Feliz, who screams. After getting tased and into the car, Barrett and Almanzar try to force Feliz into putting the car in park from having been in drive.

Rivera eventually crawls into the car from the passenger side as a passenger can be seen with his arms raised telling the officer, “Look at my hands.” Rivera soon has his service weapon drawn telling Feliz, “Yo bro! I’m gonna (expletive) shoot you!”

As the struggle continues, with officers demanding Feliz get out the car, Barrett’s body camera falls to the ground facing the building on Bainbridge Avenue. It continues rolling, with sounds of Feliz’s vehicle revving up.

Video that surfaced the day of the shooting shows the vehicle moving forward and backward with Rivera still inside. Video from Rivera’s point of view, however, shows only the moments prior to the shooting, with Rivera punching Feliz before the video cuts to black.

A spokesperson offering the NYPD’s version of events, said that Rivera’s camera was turned off shortly after the struggle and likely “caused by the physical contact with the camera’s record switch and does not capture the firearm discharge.”

Councilman Andrew Cohen, who represents Norwood where the shooting took place, told the Norwood News he has already seen the video on the shooting, and appears convinced that the shooting was justified.

“If you look at the moment where the sergeant pulled the trigger, to me it seems irrefutable that at that moment the police officers were in real serious danger,” said Cohen. “In my opinion, there was a failure of tactics here. I think this probably could have been averted. I don’t know what is the constitutionality of asking the driver for his keys. But when they stopped this guy and asked him for his license, registration, and keys he would be alive today because the only weapon he had was his vehicle and you would’ve disarmed him.”

But the videos don’t have footage of Rivera pulling the trigger. Cohen later clarified that the circumstances leading to the shooting led him to that conclusion. “I saw the video and this is my takeaway from it,” said Cohen.

Feliz’s family is now suing the NYPD. Their attorney, Robert Vilensky, declined to comment on the videos’ content. “At the present time the family has no comment other than that we believe justice will prevail for our fallen beloved son, brother, father, and friend Allen Feliz.