[CedarDave]

Direct link to video (very graphic): Police helmet cam: Camper turning from officers when shot

In addition to the helmet cam, a neighbor captured it on his video. The videos are so graphic and show so clearly how he was shot, that even Republican supporters of the police were shocked by what they saw and called for a DOJ investigation.

Boyd was mentally disturbed but also had a criminal record and violence against police. In this incident he was armed only with two knives but police shot him with at least five rounds of ammo. He was declared dead at the hospital.

[CedarDave]

Portions of the video have been all over the local news outlets but they have all deleted the actual shooting. This one from the helmet cam is nearly 4-minutes long.

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[andyk]

Savages. Everything goes to place all burden of risk on citizens.

[MNDude]

wow, just watched the video and that guy was murdered in cold blood. I hope someone does hard time for this.

[CedarDave]

"Daily Mail" story - with video. Not subscription restricted.

Police accused of excessive force after firing six bullets, two stun gun rounds, a bean bag and releasing a K9 unit on mentally ill man with a knife who later died

[Labyrinthos]

There is no other name for that than murder. All three cops (and any other cop that is part of the blue wall of silence) ought to spend the rest of their lives in prison with the general prison population. If not for the fact that I am pro-life, I would advocate the death penalty for these puke cowards.

[Starstruck]

While attacking Berry and Eden we should remember that Eden has not had time to change a culture that was existing during the Ray Schultz tenure.

This was one of the comments. Shouldn't "don't be murdering anyone or you're going to jail" be enough to change the culture?

[556x45]

“...“horrific” and “unsettling.” Several city councilors – on both sides of the aisle – said they were disturbed by what they saw.”

Really? Where have these people been for the last almost decade? Any entity that kills dogs for the slimmest of reasons and uses kiddie/pregnant woman targets for practice is by all measures is out of control, complete out of control. There’s just no political will to rein in the badged mob.

[fullchroma]

Police departments are increasingly militarized with inadequate screening of employment or training in judgment and zero moral grounding. I don’t recognize my country.

[NVDave]

Let’s take bets on how long until the holster-sniffers are here, justifying how this was a “good shoot” and that the homeless guy was worthy of being shot because he had knives in his hand vs. a half-dozen men with rifles trained on him, a K-9 set loose and flash-bangs being lobbed onto him.

[backwoods-engineer]

Officer Safety sez: when in doubt, blow their brains out!

[BuffaloJack]

The man was murdered.
What I saw was that he bent down to retrieve his camping gear, that probably included a knife and other eating utensils.
Why, when he was down and obviously not moving, did they have to put more bullets into him?

If these 3 murderers don’t get the death penalty then there is no justice, just an out of control police state.

[pallis]

Notice how frightened those cops were. They were past thinking rationally, and that mentally ill man with a violent history could just as easily had been someone’s grandfather whittling on a stick with a pocket knife. They don’t care who they murder once they are afraid.

[Uncle Miltie]

We had one of those in Tacoma, WA, where the mentally disturbed panhandler had pissed off the officer. But when the nutjob turned and walked away, the officer followed him and shot him while not being threatened. This according to several eye witnesses quoted in the initial reporting.

Not surprisingly, all subsequent reporting has not mentioned the eyewitness accounts of the guy walking away in a non-threatening manner. I fully expect it will be called a righteous shoot, even though witnesses couldn’t believe what they were seeing: a purposeful execution for no reason.

[Dick Bachert]

THIS JUST INTO OUR NEWSROOM: COPS MAY BE IN TROUBLE BUT JAMES M. BOYD IS STILL DEAD!

[gaijin]

This is the homeless guy from Hawthorne, Calif. who heart-wrenchingly called out for help from his police dad as the cops beat him to death.

The cops were fired but LEGALLY CLEARED of that homicide, btw...

My belief is that this latest killing happened BECAUSE of the widespread awareness that the cops got off in Hawthorne.

[ansel12]

Arming physical cowards with guns and badges, is what is causing this.

[Gritty]

The most important thing is, the officers got home safely that night...

[PreciousLiberty]

bump!

[TigersEye]

I see a knife in each hand after he was shot but the moment before the shooting started he had picked up two items, one in each hand, that appeared to be much larger. Like water bottles or something. He had also loaded himself up with two good sized packs. He appeared to be complying.

[dragnet2]

These are the actions one would expect to happen behind enemy lines in a brutal war.

Just incredible...