Police in Omaha, Nebraska, have accidentally shot and killed a sound technician with a crew filming their operations for the long-running television show ”COPS.” Bryce Dion was embedded with officers as they confronted a robbery suspect inside a fast-food restaurant when he was struck by a police bullet. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer described the incident and said he had authorized the COPS filming because he wanted to repair the police department’s tarnished reputation after an incident last year.

Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer: “When they encountered the suspect, and gunfire ensued — and it’s a very dramatic video — when the gunfire ensued, at some point Mr. Washington started exiting his way out, as you can see in that bottom picture there. He’s on his way out. Officers are returning fire. Bryce is in that vestibule and gets struck by a round. I don’t regret it in one sense, because I wanted to be transparent for the community, how I thought transparency was the way to instill and better police-community relations. Personally, I will live with this forever, and if I’d have known this would happen, of course I wouldn’t have done it.”