Chilling video shows knife-wielding driver shot by cop after crashing into Chinese consulate in San Francisco

Newly released body-cam video captured the moment police shot dead a knife-wielding man who crashed a car into the lobby of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco.

Zhanyuan Yang, 31, crashed into the consulate’s visa office on Oct. 9 and was heard shouting, “Where is the CCP?” – an apparent reference to the Chinese Communist Party, The San Francisco Standard reported.

​Video recorded by a bystander showed the Chinese national scuffling with security guards and trying to remove an object from the blue Honda before cops arrived.

“So a car ran into the Chinese Embassy and the guy has a gun,” a 911 caller said at about 3 p.m.

“The car broke into the building, drove through the lobby, and the guy has a gun.”

A caller also reported that security guards were fighting with the driver after he smashed into the building. “It is on purpose,” another 911 caller said of the crash.

“Please send us SWAT as soon as possible,” a caller is heard pleading.

Body-cam footage shows Sgt. Troy Carrasco running into the building and confronting the suspect, who appears to be covering his face from pepper spray that was deployed before cops arrived.

The sergeant pushed Yang against a wall as he yells: “I will never surrender!”He then turns around and swings a knife before Carrasco shoots, the video shows.

“The guy should have told me he had a knife,” the sergeant, who joined the department in 1994, is heard saying moments later.

Police later found a crossbow in the back of the Honda, according to the outlet.

The response was handled like an “active attacker” situation, police Chief Bill Scott said.

“If we believe that we have an active attacker event, we will do everything possible to stop that threat immediately so that we don’t have a loss of life,” the top cop said in the virtual meeting.

Yang’s motive remained unclear and the shooting remains under investigation.

In 2012, he launched a communications firm while attending college in China.

He later took college classes in San Francisco and studied filmmaking at the now-defunct San Francisco Art Institute, another student there who asked to remain anonymous told The San Francisco Standard.

“The impression we had about him was that he didn’t quite like to socialize,” said the fellow former student, a Chinese national.

Yang’s landlord, Victor Lyapis, described him as a “very nice guy,” but noted that he recently had trouble making rent and his check bounced.

Reporters from The Standard who were allowed into his apartment found what appeared to be replica firearms there. It was unclear whether any of the guns were real.  

Yang’s roommate, who did not give her name, said that the car he drove into the consulate belonged to another person who lived in the apartment.

She said Yang spent his time playing video games, running, shooting his bow and arrow at a park and flying his drone.“If he became radicalized, it was recent,” she told the outlet.

The police shooting was unusual because it occurred inside a consulate, which is considered foreign soil, according to The Standard, which noted that it happened shortly before the city hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a gathering of world leaders from Pacific Rim nations.

It remains unclear whether Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend.