Los Angeles Police Department officers were caught using a body camera to shoot an unarmed suspect wanted for arrest by a mobile patrol Vehicle. It was the second such shooting by LAPD members in one especially heavy week over the summer.
Officers shot three people, one of whom was a suspected gang member exiting a truck Radford Avenue and Stagg Street in LA’s Sun Valley neighborhood on the evening of July 21, 2022, so the Los Angeles Times. Video of the incident was posted on the PoliceActivity YouTube account two weeks ago:
That Times reported that the only shots fired at the scene were from the LAPD. After the gunfight A man came out of the house and told police it was him family was in and begged her to stop shooting. Another voice called out that he was holding a lighter, not a gun.
The LAPD’s official statement claims that officers mixed them up Lighter for a gun. Not to mention the fact that the officers gave no instructions and no chance the suspect to drop the item into his handsnor the officials apparently did Note that it is legal to carry a gun openly on your own private property in Los Angeles.
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In July, the Times reported that the suspect “…barricaded himself in a nearby house,” which sounds a bit like hiding from some cops who shoot first, ask questions later. The family in the house was grateful intact as it was the suspect. but through By the time the police established a perimeter, brought out crisis negotiators, and eventually sent in SWAT officers, the person threatened with arrest was gone.
Going after unsuspecting people and taking them by surprise by shooting at them is behave normally linked to Gang members, not cops. But this isn’t even the only such LAPD involvement Filming to take place this week.
recordings of a similar one Police shooting was captured on July 18 in the Leimert Park district. Police officers allegedly shot one in a moving vehicle mentally ill man, Jermaine Petit, although officials at the scene said loudly that Petit was not holds a gun. Of the Times:
“It’s not a weapon, brother,” the officer told his partner about the metal object in Petit’s hand, according to video of the incident from the officers’ body-worn cameras released by the Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday.
But that realization wouldn’t matter. Less than half a minute later, Petit was shot multiple times by an LAPD sergeant shooting from his vehicle and the officer’s partner, who did not hear the warning that Petit was unarmed, according to videos and information released by the department
The police shot Petit several times, at least once The shot came from a moving police car. It turned out that Petit was holding on a Black metal lock actuator from a car door.
Petit was initially charged with resisting arrest and attack Police with a deadly weapon, but since the cops were never in danger, finally the LAPD applied to the court for annulment the charge down offense possession of an imitation weapon. The city has yet to file charges against Petit.
A study from the Times found that about a third of the 30 people were shot by LAPD officers in 2021 were probably mentally ill at the time of the shooting. Neither Petit nor the suspect in the Sun Valley shooting were hurt, which makes them happy: in July there was four fatal and one non-deadly police shootings Involvement of the LAPD.
