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DA: Officers justified in killing man Oakridger Anderson County District Attorney General David Clark wont be prosecuting the Oak Ridge Police Department officers who shot Oak Ridge resident Fred Arcera, 41, last August. In his report Monday, Clark stated the officers acted in self defense against Arcera who Clark said had two knives and had tried to attack the officers.  “Police officers are individuals that we trust and invest with special legal authority, including the authority to use fo...

Oak Ridge Today Posted at Seventh Judicial District Attorney General Dave Clark released his report about the police shooting on Monday morning. The report said that the man who died in the shooting, Fred J. Arcera, 25, was a U.S. Army veteran who had mental health problems and was reported to be suicidal—telling officers to kill him—and he had large butcher knives and had threatened officers, moving toward them with the knives that Saturday night. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation inv...