Thursday, March 28, 2024

Homeless Man on LA’s Skid Row Shot & Killed by Police … on Tape (Graphic Video)

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*(Via Yahoo News) – Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a homeless skid-row robbery suspect who grabbed at an officer’s gun during a scuffle as they tried to subdue him in a confrontation captured on video, police said on Monday.

The man, known by the street name Africa, had been living for weeks in a tent outside the Union Rescue Mission building where Sunday’s shooting occurred and had a history of violent, erratic behavior, the mission’s director said.

Footage of the shooting, widely circulated on the Internet, marked the latest in a string of incidents that have put police across the country under heightened scrutiny over the use of lethal force, especially against minorities, the disadvantaged and the mentally ill.

Local civil rights activists called on the city police commission to hold a hearing on the police use of force on skid row, a 50-block area that ranks as one of the largest concentrations of homeless people in United States

Get the rest of this Reuters report at Yahoo News.

Watch video of the shooting (Editor’s Note: Video contains intense, continuous profanity):

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