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Phoenix police shot and killed a man who was armed with a hatchet and a knife.

Body camera video shows officers waited nearly six minutes before rendering aid to the man after he was shot.

Police fired a "less lethal" projectile at the man while he was already on the ground and wounded.

Phoenix police waited nearly six minutes to offer aid to the hatchet-wielding man they shot Aug. 19 outside an IHOP restaurant, according to body camera video.

Before approaching him, they were ordered to hit him with a "less lethal" projectile, although he had been lying on the pavement for minutes.

Rocky Joe Ellis, 47, died later that day in a hospital.

The officers' behavior echoed concerns the U.S. Department of Justice raised about Phoenix police being slow to provide medical

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