Bodycam footage shows cop ducking down to avoid being hit by friendly fire

Newly-released bodycam footage shows a police officer ducking down to avoid friendly fire as he engages in a gun fight with two attackers who killed three people at a Jersey City kosher grocery store last year. 

The clip, which was obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday with another six videos through the state’s open records law, spans roughly three hours from the December 10 incident.  

The shooters, identified  David Anderson and Francine Graham had just killed a police officer at a nearby cemetery and were now carrying out a second attack.

They pulled their white U-Haul van outside of JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Boulevard and ran in with guns extended.

Police began exchanging gun fire with the pair, including one unidentified officer from the window of Sacred Heart Catholic School across the street.

After someone notices him at the window, he squats below the window’s ledge so he can’t be seen.  

‘It’s a[n] officer!’ he yells. 

He then picks up his walkie-talkie and indicates that he’s a police officer, saying: ‘That’s friendly inside of Sacred Heart. I say again: friendly, blue.’    

First he yells ‘It’s a[n] officer!’ before speaking into his walkie-talkie: ‘That’s friendly inside of Sacred Heart. I say again: friendly, blue’

The officer was behind one of the windows Sacred Heart Catholic School across the street when he ducked down to avoid being hit by friendly fire

Authorities identified the attackers as David Anderson, 47 (left), and Francine Graham, 50 (right). The two were allegedly fueled by a hatred of Jewish people and law enforcement

In another of the obtained clips, the officer is seen reloading his weapon as numerous volleys of gunfire are heard.

‘I think he’s down. No, he’s still moving,’ the unidentified officer is heard saying. 

The officer moves past rows of small desks from one classroom, past lockers and into another before he shoots out of the window, which had been decorated with a paper cutout of an angel.

Schools in Jersey City had been locked down that day.   

Anderson, 47, and Graham, 50, fatally shot Detective Joseph Seals at a cemetery before they drove to the kosher supermarket. 

Authorities say Seals was at the cemetery to meet a man to talk about returning an impounded vehicle.

While waiting, Seals confronted the pair after he saw their van and believed it was connected to a recent killing in nearby Bayonne.  

In additional bodycam footage, a police officer tries to draw out the two attackers from the grocery store

In the clip, the officer is seen reloading his weapon as numerous volleys of gunfire are heard 

At the market, the couple killed co-owner Mindel Ferencz, 33; employee Douglas Miguel Rodriguez; and Moshe Deutsch, 24, a rabbinical student from Brooklyn who was shopping.

According to authorities,  Rodriguez held open the back door of the store for a customer to escape before he was killed.

Eventually, the SWAT team used its vehicle as a battering ram and slammed hard into the grocery store.

Inside, they found the bodies of the three victims as well as the bodies of Anderson and Graham, who had been killed in the lengthy gun battle.  

In their couple’s U-Haul van was a pipe bomb and a note that read: ‘I do this because my creator makes me do this and I hate who he hates,’ reported the New York Post. 

The two were allegedly fueled by a hatred of Jewish people and law enforcement

Passerbys are seen fleeing as Anderson and Graham (in back) emerge from their van and enter the grocery store

Among those killed at the kosher market were Moshe Hirsch Deutsch (left), 24, a rabbinical student from Brooklyn and the market’s co-owner Leah Mindel Ferencz, 33 (right)

Prior the grovery shooting, the pair killed Detective Joseph Seals ( far right), a married father of five, who joined the Jersey City Police Department in 2006 after serving with the military and other law enforcement agencies

Members of the Chesed Shel Emes, a Jewish organization which helps families through grief, were on the scene on the night of December 10 to gather the blood of the victims 

Two of the videos show the moment one of the shooters exited the van which Anderson drove to the store. 

Authorities said Anderson carrying an AR-15 style weapon, while Graham carried a 12-gauge shotgun into the shop.

The video shows passersby scattering away from the shop as the couple enters. Police arrived at the market less than two minutes after the shooters exited the van. 

Another clip shows a police vehicle smashing into the store front nearly three hours after Anderson and Graham arrived. 

Police also shared 25 911 calls made in the minutes after the shooting. 

State and federal law enforcement officials said Anderson and Graham expressed hatred of Jews and law enforcement in notes left at the grocery shooting scene and in online posts.

Police officers arrived at the scene of the active shooting at the market on December 10

Bullets pierced windows in the Sacred Heart School across the street from the kosher supermarket 

Members of Chesed Shel Emes, a Jewish organization which helps families through grief, were on the scene the following day 

Five weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were found in the store after the attackers were killed.

Investigators also found a bomb in the couple’s van that could have sprayed shrapnel fragments. The van also contained materials that could have made a second bomb. 

Investigators found among Anderson’s social media posts a reference to Jews as ‘imposters who inhabited synagogues of Satan.’

Anderson received about $560 per month as a military veteran and may have sold property and a van to make money, officials said.

However, officials have found no evidence he received outside assistance to purchase weapons or bomb-making materials.

Anderson and Graham had searched other Jewish locations to carry out their attack, but it’s unclear why they chose the grocery store.

A piece of police tape is seen at Bay View Cemetery in Jersey City, where Detective Seals was killed on December 10