From [HERE] The children of a black man gunned down by a white police officer in Louisiana's capital sued the city on Tuesday, claiming the shooting fit a pattern of racist behavior and excessive force by its police department.
Attorneys for Alton Sterling's five children filed the wrongful death lawsuit in state court against the city of Baton Rouge, its police department and police chief and the two officers involved in last summer's deadly encounter. Officer Blane Salamoni shot Sterling six times during a struggle outside a convenience store where the 37-year-old black man was selling homemade CDs.
On July 5, 2016, Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot several times at close range while held down on the ground by two white Baton Rouge Police Department officers, Howie Lake II and Blane Salamoni, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[3] Police were responding to a report that a man in a red shirt was selling CDs, and that he had used a gun to threaten a man outside a convenience store.[4] The shooting was recorded by multiple bystanders. A loaded .38 caliber revolver was in Sterling's right front pocket, but it is unclear whether he reached for it
The Justice Department investigated Sterling's shooting and announced last month that it will not file charges against Salamoni or Officer Howie Lake II, who also wrestled Sterling to the ground but didn't fire his gun. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry's office has opened its own review of the case to determine if any state criminal charges are warranted.
The family's lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, claims Sterling's shooting was the product of poor training and inadequate police procedures. The suit also cites two instances in which Baton Rouge police officers allegedly sent racist text messages to colleagues, including an apparent slur against people who protested Sterling's death.
"The City of Baton Rouge has a long standing pervasive policy of tolerating racist behavior by some of its officers," the suit says. "There have also been multiple verbal racist comments by officers reported to the department. This tolerance of such behavior directly leads to the mistreatment of individuals of African American descent."
Plaintiffs' attorney L. Chris Stewart said he expects current and former police officers to come forward, testify under oath and back up "everything" alleged in the suit.
"This isn't just lawyers talking and arguing. We have talked to officers who have said something is wrong and it must stop," Stewart said.
In the West, as in the rest of the nation, Native Americans are the racial group most likely to be killed by law enforcement, at a rate three times higher than whites. In 2016, an estimated 21 Native Americans fell victim to police violence, according to The Counted, a database that tracks people killed by U.S. law enforcement personnel; the previous year, 13 died. The deaths have ignited the same outrage that erupted in recent years following the shooting deaths of numerous African-Americans by law enforcement. Following the Black Lives Matter model, a Native Lives Matter movement has spread, calling attention to what Chase Iron Eyes, a Lakota attorney and activist, calls America’s “undeclared race war.” For police, Covarrubias’ death was a rare tragedy — a product of the split second decision-making that law enforcement officers must make to protect others and themselves. For many Native Americans in Washington and elsewhere, however, his death was an echo of the violence they had endured for centuries.
In the weeks and months following her brother’s death, Lanna Covarrubias kept coming back to one question: Daniel had just left the hospital. He was in pain. Why, she wondered, did the officers take such aggressive action?
That question has reverberated among Native Americans both on and off reservations in recent years. While Native Americans make up less than one percent of the population, they account for nearly two percent of police killings. Several factors contribute to that statistic, including the lack of mental health services (nearly half of the victims had histories of mental illness) and the often-strained relationship between Native Americans and non-native police. Many tribes are under the jurisdiction of nearby non-tribal authorities, leaving cities and counties struggling to come up with the additional policing resources. According to researchers at Claremont Graduate University, 83 percent of the deadly encounters between Native Americans and law enforcement involved non-tribal police.
Yet, for every black Michael Brown who makes the headlines, a victim of police violence in Indian Country remains invisible. The Claremont study found that between May 2014 and October 2015, major U.S. newspapers mentioned just two of the 29 verifiable Native American deaths at the hands of police during that period. The real number of deaths was likely even higher, says Jean Schroedel, one of the researchers, noting that Native deaths often go unrecorded. Many live on remote reservations or in rural border towns, which don’t get as much media coverage as big cities. In urban areas, where more than half of Native Americans reside, they are often identified as another race. Covarrubias, for instance, was identified as Latino even though he is a member of the Suquamish nation.
The Criminal Justice System Only Creates the Appearance of Justice.Anything else is just random. Sounding like a Black probot the special prosecutor above is part of the show. From [HERE] and [HERE] Three current or former Chicago police officers were indicted Tuesday on state felony charges of conspiracy in the investigation of the 2014 shooting death of Laquan McDonald.
Former Detective David March, and former Patrol Officer Joseph Walsh and Patrol Officer Thomas Gaffney were charged with conspiracy, official misconduct and obstruction of justice, according to a news release from Special Prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes' office. Their arraignment is 7/10/17.
"The indictment makes clear that these defendants did more than merely obey an unofficial 'code of silence,' rather it alleges that they lied about what occurred to prevent independent criminal investigators from learning the truth," Holmes said.
McDonald, 17, was killed in October 2014 when Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke , racist suspect above, shot him 16 times. Van Dyke has pleaded not guilty to six counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, with the latter charges apparently corresponding to each shot he fired at McDonald. He is suspended without pay.
Shortly before 10:00 p.m., police were called to investigate McDonald at 4100 South Pulaski Road responding to reports that he was carrying a knifeand breaking into vehicles in a trucking yard at 41st Street and Kildare Avenue.When officers confronted McDonald, he used a knife with a 3-inch blade to slice the tire on a patrol vehicle and damage its windshield.McDonald walked away from police after numerous verbal instructions from officers to drop the knife,at which point responding officers requested Taser backup, according to radio recordings released December 30, 2015, to Politico and NBC Chicago in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Video of the shooting shows that Van Dyke was advancing on McDonald, while McDonald was walking away from Van Dyke when the first shot was fired. The first shot hit McDonald, who spun and fell to the ground.As McDonald lay on the ground, still holding the knife, Van Dyke fired more shots into him.[28] In total, Van Dyke shot MacDonald 16 times in 14–15 seconds, expending the maximum capacity of his 9mm semi-automatic firearm.Van Dyke was on the scene for less than 30 seconds before opening fire and began shooting approximately six seconds after exiting his car.The first responding officer said that he did not see the need to use force, and none of the at least eight other officers on the scene fired their weapons.
Laquan McDonald was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:42 p.m. [MORE]
Video released after legal battle
Dashcam video of the shooting -- released in November 2015 after a court battle -- contradicted nearly everything police said happened the night McDonald died. It showed McDonald walking away from police as he held a 4-inch knife, not lunging toward officers, as police had said. The shooting led to calls for reforms and fueled a national conversation about police use of deadly force.
"The shooting of Laquan McDonald forever changed the Chicago Police Department and I am committed to implementing policies and training to prevent an incident like this from happening again," police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said. "We will also continue to implement meaningful reforms that build community trust, provide greater training and resources to our dedicated officers, and make Chicago safer."
From [NY Times] Roy D. Oliver II, the white police officer who was fired and charged with murder after killing an unarmed black teenager in April in a Dallas suburb, is facing a new round of legal problems after a complaint that he pulled his gun on a driver about two weeks before the shooting.
A grand jury indicted Mr. Oliver on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon by a public servant, the Dallas County district attorney said on Friday.
Mr. Oliver was fired from the Balch Springs Police Department after he shot and killed Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old high school freshman, as Jordan and four other teenagers drove away from a house party on April 29. Mr. Oliver used a high-powered rifle to fire into the vehicle, shooting Jordan in the head as he sat in the front passenger seat. Mr. Oliver was charged with murder on May 5, and the Balch Springs police chief said he had violated department policies.
Mr. Oliver’s new charges stem from a car accident in Dallas 13 days before Jordan was killed. Mr. Oliver was off duty and not in uniform at the time.
A driver, Monique Arredondo, was taking her two sisters and her niece to a birthday party at her grandparents’ house when her car struck Mr. Oliver’s truck from behind. Ms. Arredondo said in an interview that Mr. Oliver startled her when he left his truck and came toward her with his gun pointed at her head while she sat in her car.
“What was going through my mind was that I was about to die in front of my two sisters and my niece,” Ms. Arredondo said. “He had an attitude, and I told him I was not going to give him anything until he got the gun out of my face.”
She added, “He’s getting what he deserves because he doesn’t have the right to pull a gun on me because I hit the back of his truck.”
Each charge carries a punishment of five to 99 years in prison.
On Friday, Mr. Oliver turned himself in and was booked at the county jail and released. His bond for his three pending charges is $700,000.
From [HERE] Can the family of a slain Mexican teenager sue the federal agent who shot himacross the U.S.-Mexico border for damages? The U.S. Supreme Court did not answer this question on Monday, instead opting to send a case back to a lower court.
The case centers on a larger question: whether the Constitution extends protection to an individual who is killed on foreign soil, even though that person is standing just a few yards outside the United States.
It also tests a long-held doctrine, called a Bivens action, in which plaintiffs are permitted to sue federal officials for breaking constitutional law. But that doctrine had never been applied outside the boundaries of the United States.
In oral arguments in February, some justices were concerned that making U.S. agents liable for their actions taken in a foreign nation could be extended to, say, a house full of noncombatants killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.
Bob Hilliard, the Texas attorney for the Mexican teen's family, argued that a decision could be crafted in such a way as to only address the legally vague U.S.-Mexico borderlands, where this fatal shooting took place.
A Court of Appeals had ruled that the Border Patrol agent, Mesa, had qualified immunity, which means he cannot be sued. But in today's opinion, the justices vacated that ruling.
The Supreme Court said the lower court made a mistake when it found Mesa had qualified immunity. The lower court's rationale stressed that Hernandez was not a U.S. citizen, which the justices say that Mesa did not know when he shot him.
The court also stated that another case that it decided last week, Ziglar v. Abbasi, could have bearing on Hernandez v. Mesa, which the lower court would not have considered.
The final decision has the potential to affect not only the Hernandez family, but several other Mexican families who were waiting to file civil suits against federal officers for cross-border shootings of their loved ones.
The case comes from the death in Mexico of Sergio Hernandez, a 15-year-old boy who was playing in Mexico when he was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol Agent Jesus Mesa, who had been standing in Texas across the Rio Grande.
The cellphone video is vivid. A Border Patrol agent aims his gun at an unarmed 15-year-old some 60 feet away, across the border with Mexico, and shoots him dead.
The shooting took place on the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, Mexico.
The area is about 180 feet across. Eighty feet one way leads to a steep incline and an 18-foot fence on the U.S. side — part of the so-called border wall that has already been built. An almost equal distance the other way is another steep incline leading to a wall topped by a guardrail on the Mexican side.
In between is a the dry bed of the Rio Grande with an invisible line in the middle that separates the U.S. and Mexico. Overhead is a railroad bridge with huge columns supporting it, connecting the two countries.
Hernández and his friends were playing chicken, daring each other to run up the incline on the U.S. side and touch the fence, according to briefs filed by lawyers for the Hernández family.
At some point U.S. border agent Jesus Mesa, patrolling the culvert, arrived on a bicycle, grabbed one of the kids at the fence on the U.S. side, and the others scampered away. Fifteen-year-old Sergio ran past Mesa and hid behind a pillar beneath the bridge on the Mexican side.
As the boy peeked out, Agent Mesa, 60 feet or so away on the U.S. side, drew his gun, aimed it at the boy, and fired three times, the last shot hitting the boy in the head.
Although agents quickly swarmed the scene, they are forbidden to cross the border. They did not offer medical aid, and soon left on their bikes, according to lawyers for the family.
A day after the shooting, the FBI's El Paso office issued a press release asserting that agent Mesa fired his gun after being "surrounded" by suspected illegal aliens who "continued to throw rocks at him."
Two days later, cellphone videos surfaced contradicting that account. In one video the boy's small figure can be seen edging out from behind the column; Mesa fires, and the boy falls to the ground.
"The statement literally says he was surrounded by these boys, which is just objectively false," says Bob Hilliard, who represents the family. Pointing to the cellphone video, he says it is "clear that nobody was near " agent Mesa.
In one video, a woman's voice is heard saying that some of the boys had been throwing rocks, but the video does not show that, and by the time the shooting takes place, nobody is surrounding agent Mesa.
In other words, this race soldier cop murdered a teenager for no reason and then lied about it.
The U.S. Department of Justice decided not to prosecute Mesa. Among other things, the department concluded that it did not have jurisdiction because the boy was not on U.S. soil when he was killed.
Mexico charged the agent with murder, but when the U.S. refused to extradite him, no prosecution could go forward.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol did not discipline agent Mesa — a fact that critics, including high-ranking former agency officials, say reflects a pattern inside the agency.
After Verbal Altercation w/Wife Unarmed Black Man Did Not Threaten Cops or Son. No Gun Found. From [HERE] and [MORE] Attorneys for the family of a mentally-ill, unarmed, African-American man killed by a SWAT sniper in front of his 4-year-old son after a 2013 standoff in Fife told a federal jury Wednesday that Leonard Thomas posed no threat to police, his son or himself when he was killed
Attorney Tiffany Cartwright, one of the lawyers representing Thomas’ parents and his now 9-year-old son, told an eight-member jury in opening statements that nothing that the drunken, despondent, bipolar man did warranted the massive police response the night of May 23, 2013 — two armored vehicles and at least 27 officers, including the Pierce Metro SWAT team — for a misdemeanor, domestic-violence offense.
Based on photographs introduced in trial, most, if not all, of the officers were white, and attorneys for Thomas’ family have alleged in court documents that the case is “steeped in race.”
There was a moment when it looked like the May 2013 standoff between Leonard Thomas and the Pierce County Metro SWAT team was going to have a good ending.
Thomas, 30, drunk and despondent over the sudden death of a childhood friend, had been holed up for hours with his 4-year-old son after his mother called Fife police following an argument. A police negotiator had finally convinced Thomas to let the child go home with his grandmother for the night - which is what Thomas and his mother had fought about in the first place.
Once the child was safe, the negotiator and a SWAT commander figured officers would just let Thomas sleep off a bad night and come back later to deal with a misdemeanor domestic-violence allegation stemming from a tussle over his mother's cellphone while she was talking to 911, according to police reports.
That isn't what happened.
As a skittish Thomas led the boy onto the front porch to send him down the sidewalk to the child's waiting grandmother, members of a SWAT assault team used explosives to blow open a back door, forcing their way in and killing the family dog with a burst of gunfire. Thomas - who was unarmed - reportedly lunged for his son, and he was fatally shot by a police sniper as he held the boy.
The assault-team leader, Lakewood police Officer Mike Wiley, announced the shooting over a SWAT frequency: "We have jackpot."
Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist, racist suspect in photo above, concluded the shooting was lawful and determined the SWAT sniper "did what was necessary to protect a child."
However, Thomas' parents, Fred and Annalesa Thomas, along with a guardian representing Thomas' now 6-year-old son, in January filed a $3.5 million claim against the Metro SWAT team and its member agencies, partly for "intangible injuries like the emotional distress caused by witnessing the killing of a son and father." Such claims usually precede a wrongful-death or federal civil-rights lawsuit.
The family's Seattle lawyers, David Whedbee and Tim Ford, call the incident a "damning story of overreaction and incompetence, and the use of unnecessary military-style force against an American citizen."
They say the incident was tragically avoidable and that the arrival of the SWAT team - which surrounded the home and parked an armored-personnel carrier on Thomas' front lawn - escalated a minor domestic argument into a siege. [An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a type of armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) designed to transport infantry to the battlefield. APCs are colloquially referred to as 'battle taxis' or 'battle buses', among other things. Armoured personnel carriers are distinguished from infantry fighting vehicles by the weaponry they carry. MORE See video above about the Metro Swat's tank that was parked on Thomas' front lawn. Racism is a virus in the mind and these mfs are crazy where "race" is a variable]
They also say it is emblematic of the type of police militarization that has alarmed the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and caught the attention of Congress and the White House after the use by police of military-style assault vehicles and heavily armed, camouflage-clad officers in Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere.
"Like the troubling trend across the country, the police here resorted to military tactics and killed an unarmed man who had done nothing but suffer a bout of despair," Whedbee said. "He hadn't harmed anybody and just wanted to be left alone in his home."
Lakewood police Assistant Chief Mike Zaro, who was in charge of the SWAT operation that night, declined to discuss the incident because of the family's claim, except to say that Thomas "could have obeyed us at any time and chose not to."
However, the family's claim and a review of the reports, documents, transcripts and court records by The Seattle Times raise questions about the accuracy of key information given to officers at the scene regarding Thomas'
Annalesa Thomas took a call from her son around 9:30 p.m. on May 23, 2013, and immediately became worried, according to police reports, interviews and court records. Leonard Thomas, who lived with his son in a house owned by his parents, was upset over the recent, sudden death of a longtime friend and wanted his mother to come and get the boy.
When she arrived at the two-story home on a dead-end road in Fife, Leonard Thomas was outside with his estranged wife, Kimberly. His mother said Thomas was tearful and argumentative, and resisted her suggestion he and the boy come home with her.
When she decided it would be best to just leave with the boy, Thomas resisted and they argued. Annalesa said she slapped Thomas to try to calm him down, and then called police.
While she was on the phone with a 911 operator, Annalesa said Thomas "grabbed her wrist and took the phone." Several officers responded and decided there was probable cause to arrest Thomas for fourth-degree domestic-violence assault, a gross misdemeanor, for interfering with the 911 call.
Meantime, Thomas and his son had retreated into the house.
Fife police Lt. Scott Green, who was in charge of the scene before SWAT arrived, told detectives later that the department was familiar with Thomas from prior contacts. He said there was an officer-safety advisory in a state crime computer, warning that Thomas suffered from mental-health problems - Thomas was bipolar - and was reported to carry a handgun. That information was repeatedly broadcast to officers and the SWAT team.
Officers were also told the advisory said he had in the past threatened "suicide by cop" and that Fife police considered him "uncooperative."
A post-shooting review could not confirm the suicide-by-cop information or identify its source. And police did not attempt to authenticate information that Thomas had been seeking a gun or was known to carry one, according to a review of the documents.
Thomas spoke with two negotiators that night. The first, Milton police Sgt. Nils Luckman, said Thomas' mood was erratic - cordial one moment, angry the next - and he seemed intoxicated and said he was off his medications. Thomas insisted he had not committed a crime and demanded police get off his property.
Luckman told investigators Thomas repeatedly said he was unarmed and that the boy was fine. Luckman said that while Thomas was hostile toward police, he never threatened officers or the child.
Thomas told one officer through an open window that he had a pistol, but none was ever seen or found.
Fife Police Chief Brad Blackburn decided to call out SWAT because he was concerned about the well-being of the child, he told detectives afterward.
SWAT negotiator Lakewood Sgt. Mark Eakes took over just before midnight. By then, the house was being surrounded by heavily armed officers and two snipers were watching Thomas inside the home through their rifle scopes, according to the reports.
The Psychopathic Racial Personality Racism White Supremacy is carried out by deception and/or violence. JPSO Sheriff Newell Normand thinks handcuffed black man was hit once or twice but it was justified.
Attempt Murder for Murder of Cop. From [HERE] Jerman Neveaux filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against 28 Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputies, accusing them of using excessive force when he was arrested in connection with the shooting death of Detective David Michel Jr.
The deputies beat Neveaux, acting with "willful and wanton indifference" and "deliberate disregard" for his constitutional rights, according to the filing, made Thursday (June 22), one year after Michel's death and Neveaux's arrest.
As a result, Neveaux suffered nerve damage, disfigurement, partial blindness in his right eye and mental anguish, the lawsuit says.
Neveaux, 20, is charged in Jefferson Parish district court with first-degree murder, aggravated assault with a firearm, illegal possession of a stolen firearm and two counts of resisting police by force. He is accused of shooting Michel, 50, three times in the back after the detective stopped him as he was walking near Manhattan Boulevard and Ascot Road in Harvey on June 22, 2016.
The Jefferson Parish district attorney's office is seeking the death penalty. Neveaux has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.
Neveaux's attorney on the civil lawsuit, Williard Brown Sr., had not yet responded to a request for comment Friday afternoon.
Sheriff's Office deputies took Neveaux into custody shortly after the Michel's shooting in the nearby Pebble Walk subdivision where authorities say he tried to hide in the backyard of a townhouse it in the 1500 block of London Cross Road.
Cellphone video recorded of the arrest and released to WVUE-Fox 8 raised questions about excessive force, at the time.
In the video, a deputy who appears to be kneeling near what is possibly Neveaux's head can be seen delivering at least 10 blows.
A resident who witnessed the arrest told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune, "All I seen was the man handcuffed, and they was beating the hell out him."
The lawsuit contends the video shows Neveaux raising his hands as deputies drew their guns and approached him in the backyard. Neveaux was trying to lie down when several deputies rushed him and forced him to the ground.
The deputies kicked and beat Neveaux while handcuffing him and slammed his face against the corner of a table while walking him through a residence, the lawsuit said.
The court filing includes mugshots of Neveaux's bloodied and swollen face.
In the days after Neveaux's arrest, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand reported he suffered a fractured eye socket and cuts to his face. Martin Regan, Neveaux's criminal attorney told Jefferson Parish courts his client also suffered internal injuries, possible spinal damage and had difficulty walking.
Neveaux was still using a wheelchair at his most recent court appearance, a June 7 hearing regarding his mental ability to aid in his defense. Court-appointed doctors found him competent to help his attorney, but the judge granted Regan more time to obtain medical records.
Normand has said Neveaux was in possession of a .38-caliber pistol during the arrest. The sheriff asked the FBI Civil Rights Task Force to take over an investigation into the excessive force allegations. No information was available Friday about that probe.
Neveaux's lawsuit asks for damages and names the following defendants: Sgt. Christy Clement, Sgt. Julio Avarado, Detective George Kister, Dep. Joseph Ragas, Sgt. Frank Renaudin, Detective Blake Hollifield, Detective Todd Rivere, Detective Derek Green, Maj. Michael Dupuis, Sgt. Travis Esennan, Detective Melvin Francis, Sgt. Marlo Bruno, Sgt. Rodney Naumann, Col. John Fortunato, Detective William Roniger, Sgt. Mark Layrisson, Dep. Nathanial Obiol, Detective Adrian Thompson, Detective Stephen Villere, Dep. Eric Hymel, Sgt. Gary Barteet, Detective Donald Zanotelli, Sgt. Thomas Gai, Lt. Elvin Modica, Detective Michael Schmitt, Detective Robert Miles, Detective Jean Lincoln and Dep. Sean Whalen.
From [HERE] The parents of a gun-wielding 14-year-old whom Los Angeles police shot and killed in Boyle Heights last year have filed suit against the city and an officer, alleging that police violated their son’s civil rights, used excessive force and denied him timely medical care.
“By not disciplining police officers when they use excessive force, [the city has] fostered a culture of allowing officers to shoot people and get away with it,” said the family’s attorney, Humberto Guizar, at a Friday press conference.
Police have said Jesse Romero was with two others behind an apartment complex near Chicago Street and Cesar Chavez Avenue on Aug. 9, 2016, tagging gang-type graffiti when gang officers approached. The three bolted, the LAPD said, with Romero “grabbing his front waistband.”
As they approached Breed Street, officers heard a gunshot. One of the officers then saw Romero crouched on the sidewalk with his arm extended, police said in a statement. “Fearing Romero was going to shoot at them,” the officer fired two shots.
In the lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday, the family said Medina should not have been allowed to return to the field so soon after his first shooting.
Police also have said that a witness saw Romero fire a handgun in the direction of the officers.
At Friday’s press conference, Guizar also disputed police accounts that a witness saw Jesse fire a handgun, and that he was pointing a handgun at officers when he was shot. Witnesses saw Jesse throw the gun and a video shows the gun on the other side of a wrought-iron fence, Guizar said.
One witness who said she saw the shooting explained that Romero pulled the revolver from his waistband, threw it against a fence and ran. The gun fired when it hit the ground, she told The Times.
“This is an antique revolver, probably a .38 caliber, which does not have a modern safety device that prevents accidental discharges when dropped on its hammer,” Gregory Lee, a retired supervisory special agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency, wrote in an email. “It most probably fired when it was dropped.” [MORE]
“It would have been impossible for Jesse to have a gun in his hand, aiming it at the officers at the time they shot him,” Guizar said.
Videos released by LA Weekly, Democracy Nowcontradict the LAPD version of the shooting.
The video, which begins just after the shooting, shows officers standing over the boy’s body on the sidewalk and then handcuffing him. It shows the alleged gun far way on other side of a metal wrought iron fence. [MORE] and [MORE]
The video, which begins just after the shooting, shows officers standing over the boy’s body on the sidewalk and then handcuffing him.
Another witness described seeing one officer extend his arm and shoot the running teenager twice in the back. Then the boy fell.
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