This is the 14 year old who was hiding in a fitting room earlier this week when she was shot
Video of the incident [major CWs detailed in spoiler, recommend that you read them before viewing, if you choose to do so]
Obviously note that this comes directly from the LAPD PR Division, but includes raw footage.
Description of video contents, including CWs
- 1:53: 911 calls and other audio
- 11:08: 10 minutes of surveillance footage of the suspect intimidating customers and using his bike lock to assault and batter customers.
- CW at 24 minutes where the man beats a woman, striking her multiple times in the face. Blood is visible on the victim and on the ground.
- CW at 25 minutes, as the officers approach and shoot the suspect.
- 26:40 has a still photo from the investigation that shows the bullet's trajectory into the fitting room wall where the teenager and her mother were hiding. It appears that it ricocheted off of the floor and into (through) the wall
- 27:45 start of officer's bodycam footage.
- major CW at 29:15 as the officers approach the suspect beating the woman's face, showing bodycam footage of the shooting. The victim's blood is all over the ground, and she is crawling toward the officers, the suspect is at the opposite end of the aisle and starts to turn away from the group of officers and is shot. You can immediately hear a woman screaming from behind the wall in the fitting room.
- 30:45 has additional bodycams of the incident.
Shooting over a fucking bike lock. Whatever happened to subduing a perp with your hands? Don't they teach pigs like basic hand-to-hand combat? You'd think this would be an easy take down but no, it's just guns blazing like cowboys, shoot first ask questions last.
I've seen videos of US cops shooting people with scissors. Fucking scissors.
Teachers deal with kids using scissors inappropriately all the time, but cops just straight up shoot people with scissors.
Even worse I've seen people justify it because scissors are a "deadly weapon".
shoot first ask questions last.
Nah, it is more like "try to use any situation as an excuse to shoot".
Fuck the LAPD. This should cause an equal uproar to any other disgusting pig murder, but it feels like we're all just desensitized at this point
Posted the same on the original story about this, but:
No group of people in the US has demonstrated themselves to be less fit to carry a gun than the police.
