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Authorities on Wednesday afternoon released video of officers fatally shooting a man who had a knife and charged toward police while on a Sacramento Regional Transit train earlier this month.

The Sacramento Police Department released an edited video with police narration of what unfolded on the RT train. Police also released raw video of the shooting captured on four body-worn cameras and two RT security cameras, along with dispatch audio recordings.

The fatal police shooting occurred Aug. 15 on board a RT Blue Line train after it pulled into the platform adjacent to Hughes Stadium at Sacramento City College.

Shortly after 5 p.m., patrol officers were called to the 3800 block of 24th Street after callers reported there was someone armed with “a large knife acting erratically” on an RT train, police said.

“Once the individual armed with knife made his way to the front of the train, the other passengers moved away from the individual and exited the train,” Sgt. Carlos Martinez, a police spokesman, said in the edited video.

In the video, a man wearing a red shirt, red shorts and a red baseball cap can be heard saying loudly and repeatedly: “Excuse me. You all got to excuse me. I don’t understand. Excuse me.”

Before officers arrived at the scene, two passengers on the train called 911 to report there was a person with a knife on the train. One caller said he saw the man holding “a machete type of knife” that was “long as my arm.”

Martinez said the man displayed the knife at least once as he walked into the train, moments before the other passengers left the train. Security video shows the man display the knife when he boarded. A second caller reported the armed man, as well, saying the man had “a huge knife.”

Two officers arrived at the scene. While one officer went to the train, the other grabbed his department-issued less-lethal bean bag shotgun before heading to the train.

The video shows RT staff tell the officers where the armed man was and what he was wearing. When the first officer entered the train, the armed man was sitting at the far end of the train. Another man, who did not appear to be associated with the man in red, was still seated in the train close to where the officer entered. The officers soon after pulled the other passenger off the train as they continued to confront the armed man.

“Listen, we want everything and everyone to go home safe,” the officer told the man in the red clothing, the videos show. “I just need you to do everything that... we tell you.

“No one is going to hurt you, man,” the officer said. “Do not grab the knife.”

The man in the red clothing told the officer: “I’m scared of you all, bro. Please, please, please, sir. I know you all got to do your job, but I’m scared of you all right now.”