Video Shows Okla. Pastor Attacking Police Moments Before Fatal Shooting

A recently released video from the Tulsa Police Department shows a local pastor pushing a police officer moments before he was fatally shot.

The video, released by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol this week, shows Nehemiah Blessed Fischer, an assistant pastor at Faith Bible Church in Tulsa, pushing a police officer shortly before he was fatally shot by one of the officers.

The incident took place last Friday evening, when two Oklahoma troopers responded to a call of a stranded motorist in flood water. The police officers claim that Nehemiah and his brother, Brandon, engaged police in a physical altercation after they were asked to leave their vehicles.

"As they were exiting the water, coming towards the troopers, a confrontation occurred and one of the troopers was actually assaulted," Oklahoma Highway Patrol Capt. Paul Timmons told CNN over the weekend, adding "And in defense of himself, he fired."

Nehemiah was reportedly killed in the altercation and his brother was arrested for assaulting a police officer and public intoxication.

Following Nehemiah's death, family members, including the assistant pastor's wife, questioned the police account of the altercation, saying it was not in the assistant pastor's nature to attack an officer.

Nehemiah's father, JR Fischer, told the Associated Press that Nehemiah's behavior was out of character.

"When it came to being a Christian man, he was the real deal," he said. "He walked the talk."

"If my son would have known that this was an officer, he would have never assaulted him," the father added.