Fake hand, I can see the Gun, it's always the Butler.
Posted on 06/20/2015 9:23:45 AM PDT by Altariel
LOS FELIZ, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A man attempting to flag Los Angeles police officers down with his arm wrapped in a towel was shot in the head Friday in Los Feliz.
The man was shot at about 6:35 p.m. on Los Feliz Boulevard and Tica Drive. He was allegedly raising his arm wrapped in a towel, possibly holding a gun.
"The officer exited the vehicle and quickly said, 'Drop the gun, drop the gun,'" LAPD Lt. John Jenal said.
Moments later, the officer opened fire.
It was unclear if the man had a gun, but the officers believed the man had a gun, Jenal said.
The man was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
As part of the investigation, Los Feliz Boulevard was expected to be shut down from Griffith Park Boulevard to Hillhurst Avenue until Saturday morning.
The way things are these days — I’m not sure I blame the cops for being jittery.
Hmmm...
“He was allegedly raising his arm wrapped in a towel, possibly holding a gun.”
Is it just me or if I want to shoot someone, the last thing I would do is wrap a towel around my gun hand?
5.56mm
He didn’t have a gun, but they handcuffed the man as he was laying on the ground with his brains blown out.
If it turns out he cut his hand and he flagged down a cop to get help this is going to be another VERY BAD example of cops jumping the gun
I can’t imagine why anyone would want to be a cop
Shortly there are going to be rules: In any encounter with the police, citizen, drop to your knees and raise your hands...or else
Revenue raisers and keepin the little peeps down rather than keeping the peace.
Thats a convoluted explanation. I side with the cop.
If I was a cop these days, “ambush” would be my first though.
Shoot the dogs from the lip, fake the report and ask questions later.
“cops are being trained as if they are combat soldiers being prepared for a warzone. this training is the problem. nobody is ever held accountable when this training costs an innocent citizen or their pet its life and we’ve now had 2 decades of this training, turning the police into little more than an occupying army.”
No. It is worse than that. Military service members operate under stricter ROE than do police. If a service member had done this they would face a court martial and do some serious time in the brig.
Apparently, you do not want to raise your hands if you have a towel wrapped around one of them; it would seem that is now a capital crime in Los Angeles. In defense of the officer, my HS wrestling team doubled as towel-snapping fencing team in the locker room after practice, and a properly wielded towel can leave a nasty welt...so maybe the officer feared a nasty towel snap.
i’m not entirely convinced that even when there is a clear case of a cop operating outside of the law and the ensuing public outrage demands charges, that the DA’s office doesn’t intentionally bungle the prosecution. once bungled, the cop can never again be charged for that crime, and the DA then ensures cooperation and goodwill from fellow cops for the other non-police prosecutions on their docket. this seems very much like a quid pro quo to me.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/mary-mitchell/7/71/539171/dante-servin-rekia-boyd-injustice
Forgot to mention, we are now in a police State. They can no longer be relied on protecting us, they seem to be more of a danger than the criminal.
Yep.
But count in their ridiculous union-negotiated pension terms and they’re extraordinarily costly—despite the revenue raised.
Some people become cops because they enjoy using force, they enjoy the feeling of superiority, they enjoy having the government support their actions, etc.
"Dog" the bounty hunter, but with substantially better credentials, and substantially more support from the courts.
In Mayberry,Otis was the closest thing they had to a crime wave.Something tells me there are more than a few folks walking the streets of LA today that are a bit more menacing than Otis.
O rilly? Let me take a wild-@ss guess here... I'd guess... HE DID NOT HAVE A GUN!
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