Police shooting video: LAPD use deadly force on homeless man on Skid Row
- 9 years ago
Los Angeles Police Department officers shot and killed a homeless man Sunday during a confrontation on a downtown city street where homeless people pitch tents at night known as Skid Row.
Officials say the officers encountered the man while responding to a robbery call. Local media quote police as saying the man was resisting arrest and tried to grab one of the officer’s weapons. The officer then shot the man.
“During that altercation at least one less than lethal device, a taser, was deployed. However at this time we still do not know if that taser did strike the suspect. After that the struggle continued and an officer-involved shooting occurred,” Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant Barry Montgomery told ABC News.
Video of the incident was posted online and shows the officers scuffling with a homeless man. Once on the ground, the man continues struggling, at which point several shots are fired.
Witnesses gave varying accounts about the shooting, with some saying the man had reached for one of the officer's guns, and one saying he heard an officer saying “He’s got my gun.”
Other witnesses said the police had used a taser on the man before shooting him.
“About five officers wrestled him down to the ground, he managed to get up. They took him down again, then they beat him while he was on the ground. Next thing I knew heard one shot. Then I looked over across the street I seen three more shots being fired at the guy he was laying down on the ground,” said an unidentified witness.
A series of civilian deaths at the hands of police in the past year has become a touchstone for troubled race relations in the United States, most notably in Ferguson, Missouri, when an unarmed teenager was shot and killed by a police officer, triggering weeks of protests and some rioting. A grand jury cleared the officer of wrongdoing.
The homeless man in the video was declared dead at a hospital shortly after the shooting, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing police spokesman Montgomery.
Police could not be reached by Reuters to confirm the report.
The man has not yet been identified.
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Officials say the officers encountered the man while responding to a robbery call. Local media quote police as saying the man was resisting arrest and tried to grab one of the officer’s weapons. The officer then shot the man.
“During that altercation at least one less than lethal device, a taser, was deployed. However at this time we still do not know if that taser did strike the suspect. After that the struggle continued and an officer-involved shooting occurred,” Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant Barry Montgomery told ABC News.
Video of the incident was posted online and shows the officers scuffling with a homeless man. Once on the ground, the man continues struggling, at which point several shots are fired.
Witnesses gave varying accounts about the shooting, with some saying the man had reached for one of the officer's guns, and one saying he heard an officer saying “He’s got my gun.”
Other witnesses said the police had used a taser on the man before shooting him.
“About five officers wrestled him down to the ground, he managed to get up. They took him down again, then they beat him while he was on the ground. Next thing I knew heard one shot. Then I looked over across the street I seen three more shots being fired at the guy he was laying down on the ground,” said an unidentified witness.
A series of civilian deaths at the hands of police in the past year has become a touchstone for troubled race relations in the United States, most notably in Ferguson, Missouri, when an unarmed teenager was shot and killed by a police officer, triggering weeks of protests and some rioting. A grand jury cleared the officer of wrongdoing.
The homeless man in the video was declared dead at a hospital shortly after the shooting, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing police spokesman Montgomery.
Police could not be reached by Reuters to confirm the report.
The man has not yet been identified.
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