Posted on 12/06/2014 6:45:31 PM PST by smokingfrog
A police shooting is under scrutiny Saturday, a day after officers fatally shot a man they say was armed with a knife.
Hundreds of protesters in an already scheduled march against police brutality staged a “die-in” at the iconic corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, where a man was fatally shot by police.
Cellphone video captured the aftermath of the incident, which unfolded Friday night about 7 p.m. after officers said they responded to an “assault with a deadly weapon” in-progress call.
The Los Angeles Police Department says the man did not comply with officers’ orders to “get down.”
“When they told him to get down and comply, he did not at all,” said Bruce Cherry, one of hundreds of witnesses.
Cherry said the suspect initially had his hands outside of his pockets.
“When they ran up on him, he went inside of his pockets and stuck both of his hands inside of his pockets and then that’s when they pulled out on him,” Cherry said. “That’s when the shots rang out.”
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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The Left staked EVERYTHING on Obama and during pre-election they led everyone to believe He would be the end of racial animosity.
But he has failed on EVERYTHING of substance and they have egg on their faces.
So THIS is the drumbeat they’re falling back on to keep everyone distracted from how everything is WORSE now, instead of better.
They scream something like, “See NOW we need his ideas MORE than ever before —cuz of all these totally Unforseen, new circumstances..! He has to do MORE new stuff for the whole country...!”
And cuz amnesty is about to shoot black unemployment up past the moon.
Gotta keep ‘em distracted —racial anger is what they know best, so they’re going with DAT.
Swiss army knives. Worse than “assault rifles”.
Like The 'Waco Kid'? LOL!
This one isn’t going far anyway. The left has figured out that the dead guy is white.
That's racist. Carry on....
That GIF cracks me up every time..!
How does a knife with a locking blade be recovered in a “halfway” position?
It appeared to be a Swiss Army knife. The blade doesn’t lock, but that corkscrew can be deadly! /s
Ping
developing>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yep. Developing national insurrection so Obama can declare martial law and postpone the 2016 elections.
Holder and Obama are in this deep.They actually do want to destroy the Republic.
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
People today seem to have developed a severe inability to follow orders, especially from those in authority. IMO reinstating the military draft would save lives!
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