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Man Fatally Shot by LAPD Sergeant in Culver City Wielded ‘Bicycle Part,’ Not Gun: Officials
KTLA ^ | 01/17/2020

Posted on 01/17/2020 10:10:50 PM PST by BenLurkin

A man shot and killed by a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant who was responding to reports of a “man with a gun” on the border between Culver City and Los Angeles’ Palms neighborhood was holding a bicycle part in his hand when he was shot, not a gun, as initially believed by the officer and witnesses, police said Friday.

The police shooting took place about 12:40 p.m. on Jan. 11 in the area of South Sepulveda Boulevard and South Venice Boulevard, LAPD said in a written statement. A supervisor assigned to the LAPD’s Pacific Patrol Division identified by the department as Sgt. I Colin Langsdale was the first to arrive at the scene where witnesses reported seeing an armed man.

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1 posted on 01/17/2020 10:10:50 PM PST by BenLurkin
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And so what if he had a gun. Is that a reason to take a life so freely?


2 posted on 01/17/2020 10:12:55 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: BenLurkin

Play stupid games win stupid prizes.


3 posted on 01/17/2020 10:28:58 PM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: Gene Eric

I don’t know the circumstances if his death, so I speak from principle only. If he had the time to comply,he should have dropped whatever was in his hand. It could have been picked up after once his dealings with police were finished.


4 posted on 01/17/2020 10:29:22 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: BenLurkin

Looks like a broken quill stem.


5 posted on 01/17/2020 10:29:53 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: TChad

Schwinn quill stem

6 posted on 01/17/2020 10:32:45 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: TChad

yeah, from the photo in the article suicide by cop. looks gun ish, sounds like it was pointed like a gun...


7 posted on 01/17/2020 10:36:29 PM PST by orionrising
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To: BenLurkin

“An (officer-involved shooting) occurred and the suspect was struck by gunfire.“

Gotta love the passive voice here.


8 posted on 01/17/2020 10:36:45 PM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: Gene Eric

“The supervisor stopped his police vehicle, exited and immediately observed the suspect pointing what he believed to be a handgun at him,” according to the police statement. “A nearby witness also observed the suspect and believed the item in his hand was a gun as well. An (officer-involved shooting) occurred and the suspect was struck by gunfire. He fell to the ground and was then taken into custody without further incident.”


9 posted on 01/17/2020 10:41:09 PM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: BenLurkin

Are there more details or body cam footage? A bicycle nearby the guy was fixing?


10 posted on 01/17/2020 10:45:07 PM PST by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: TexasGurl24

>> A nearby witness also observed the suspect and believed the item in his hand was a gun as well.

You know that witness changed her story, right?


12 posted on 01/17/2020 10:53:53 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: The Pack Knight

If they worked harder at it, they could remove it by one more degree...


13 posted on 01/17/2020 10:56:16 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Gene Eric

When you point it at a police officer, it is.


14 posted on 01/17/2020 10:57:30 PM PST by DrewsMum
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To: Gene Eric

So suspects should be allowed to point weapons at cops willy nilly? Are you crazy?


15 posted on 01/17/2020 10:59:25 PM PST by DrewsMum
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To: Gene Eric

That wasn’t part of the story.


16 posted on 01/17/2020 11:00:33 PM PST by DrewsMum
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To: BenLurkin

A rule to live by: Don’t wield things at cops.


17 posted on 01/17/2020 11:02:15 PM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: BenLurkin

I am familiar with this area...That area is near 405 freeway...Many homeless people are in that area.


18 posted on 01/17/2020 11:04:26 PM PST by L.A.Justice
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To: DrewsMum

To say the so-called witness is irrelevant?


19 posted on 01/17/2020 11:07:17 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

Witnesses in urban centers often change their stories, particularly after the BLM types talk to them or threaten them.

I’m going to bookmark this thread. The LAPD usually releases bodycam footage pretty quickly in incidents like this.

http://www.lapdonline.org/use_of_force/content_basic_view/65012

If the bodycam shows what I think it will, I will laugh at you and your histrionics.


20 posted on 01/17/2020 11:08:01 PM PST by TexasGurl24
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