The Denver Police Department said this week that a person they shot and killed last week was a transgender individual who tried to attack a police officer with a large knife.
The suspect, 52-year-old Miguel Tapia, a man who claimed that he was a woman, tried to attack a police officer last week with a 7-inch knife, according to body camera footage that was released of the incident.
The shooting happened last Sunday in an intersection when police confronted Tapia and told him to drop what he was holding and to put his hands on his head.
Tapia started aggressively moving toward the police officer with the knife in his hand, at which point two police officers fired tasers at him in an effort to stop him.
When the tasers were unsuccessful, the police officer that he was running after pulled out his pistol and unloaded several shots into the attacker. Another officer also fired at the suspect.
🚨 #VIDEO | La policía de Denver difunde imágenes de una cámara corporal en las que se les ve disparando a un transexual que cargó contra ellos con un cuchillo
👉 Miguel Tapia, transexual de 52 años, murió el 16 de junio en el cruce de Broadway y Lawrence Street, en Denver pic.twitter.com/1l5Sgm9fSk
— VOZ (@VozMediaUSA) June 26, 2024
DPD Commander Matt Clark refused to discuss the suspect’s prior criminal history during the press conference and said anyone who wanted to know what it was could go look it up themselves.
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BREAKING: The trans t*rr*rist who charged at officers with a knife before being shot in Denver was not only a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman, but may also be in our country illegally. pic.twitter.com/V9eIYToVtY
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 25, 2024
Activists posted records online purporting to be related to the suspect that indicated he had been convicted of various crimes against children.
Police said at a press conference that it was possible that he was also an illegal alien. The Daily Wire has reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for comment about the matter.
