GRAPHIC VIDEO: Dallas police shoot, kill mentally ill man (FULL)

Description: Graphic Content: Dallas police shoot, kill mentally ill man (FULL VIDEO) ***WARNING: The video below contains graphic content and realistic depictions of mass shootings. While the video aims to news reporting, viewer discretion is advised. ***NOTICE: Sorry if the screen turn black sometimes, we have to censored disturbing imagery which is not allow due to Community guidelines. But the conversation audio is still available. Graphic video is at the center of a federal suit over the use of lethal force by a Texas police department. The family of a mentally ill man shot and killed outside his front door by Dallas police have released video of the fatal confrontation as part of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the department. Jason Harrison, 38, was gunned down by two officers responding to a domestic call on June 14, 2014 when he lunged at police with a screwdriver. But the family, who obtained video recorded by an officer's body camera, contends Dallas police used excessive force. "This is a perfect video for the Dallas Police Department to use in training as an example of what not to do," older brother Sean Harrison told The Dallas Morning News. "You don't yell at them — that only agitates them." Shirley Harrison called cops on her son — who was bipolar and schizophrenic — because he was menacing her. In the newly released video, she's seen greeting police at her Oak Cliff, Tex., home. Jason Harrison is right behind her, casually holding a screw driver in his hand, the video shows. "Bipolar and schizo," Shirley Harrison tells cops as she steps outside. Then the routine call escalates in an instant. Officers John Rogers and Andrew Hutchins demand Harrison drop the tool. "Drop that for me guy," one officer tells Harrison as his partner draws his weapon. "Drop it." Shirley Harrison can be heard yelling at her son to cooperate. Harrison reportedly gets agitated and officers claim he lunges at them. "When you're dealing with somebody who is mentally ill, you're not supposed to agitate!" Harrison family's attorney Geoff Henley told KHOU. "You're not supposed to move fast! You're not supposed to inflame." Dallas police said the video backs up officers' accounts of the shooting as self-defense. The case is being reviewed by the Dallas County District Attorney's Office.

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