Posted on 01/31/2023 9:35:06 AM PST by Morgana
A group of California police officers shot and killed a double amputee on Thursday as he tried to run away from them on his stumps after jumping out of his wheelchair.
The three cops from Huntington Park Police Department were filmed firing at least eight shots at Anthony Lowe Jr., a 36-year-old father-of-two.
Lowe Jr. had just stabbed someone unprovoked, according to the police department, and was trying to run away from two officers.
Video of the incident shows him standing in front of two officers next to his wheelchair, which he had leaped from. He turned and tried to hurry away from them, clutching a large butcher's knife in one hand.
A second police car arrived, from which a third cop emerged. First, they Tased him - which was 'ineffective', according to a police press release.
Within 15 seconds of the third officer arriving, they fired multiple shots, shooting Lowe in the upper torso.
Once he was on the ground lying on his stomach, they placed him in handcuffs.
'The suspect was tased at least twice by Huntington Park Officers but the deployment of the taser was ineffective.
'The suspect attempted to throw the butcher knife at the officers again, at which time an officer involved shooting occurred,' the LA County Sheriff's Office release said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Handcuffed and trying to throw a knife? just how is that done?
Gestapo storm troopers.
So brave /s
Desensitized in their training. Training designed to make them agents of the state against the public.
Don’t trust any of them. Don’t call them expecting help.
We're a big country. 350 million people. We have a lot of drugs, criminality and chaos in our cities and towns
so because of sheer numbers, these police-interactions-gone-wrong, even though extremely small in number - happen every day.
So its really just if media and politicians want to turn them into an issue.
Or as they are better known AOC.
They claim it was an unprovoked stabbing.
Per the Libs and Joe, if they want cops to be trained to shoot the perps in the legs, what were they supposed to do in a situation like this?
They’re easier to hit that way. Double amputees that are moving are more difficult to shoot. It’s all in the police manual.
Good point.
Good point. Claims made by the Blue Gang aren't to be taken as "gospel".
No, that isn’t what’s happening, that isn’t the plan. Not one bit.
Very generally they will do everything to destroy local policing, and presumably elected Sheriffs. “DeFund the Police” isn’t what they have in mind. That’s why they come down like a ton of bricks on anyone “taking the law into their own hands” when they can, in leftist democrat style blue shithole districts.
They want to federalize the local police agencies. Keep that in mind. That’s what the “Night of the Long Knives” was about, for example. After that, the entire police was under complete control.
and was trying to run away from two officers.
Meanwhile, we peons are told that we can't shoot a fleeing felon that we just witnessed commit a violent crime. If the criminal is fleeing, we're piously told, we're no longer in fear for our lives and shooting is unjustified.
Yup. Shooting them in the back is treated as murder.
And if he was fleeing them, I doubt his front was facing them.
They don’t know where the bullets are going. On more than one video I’ve heard dozens of shots from a group of cops emptying their clips with only a couple actually hitting the perp.
Wearing layers of clothes might deflect them?
Guess they couldn’t shoot him in the leg as per Biden’s recommendation.
I almost get it, but it’s missing something.
The visuals of this don’t look good.
This could end up being as bad as the knee on the neck of a dying Saint George Floyd.
I’m sure Anthony Lowe will soon be canonized and become the latest to join the panoply of Black Thug sainthood.
And billions will be handed out to BLM and the grieving family.
Here we go again.
Idiots abide.
And they could’ve just shot him in the leg. Oh wait..
Oh man.
Cold, cold.
You win.
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