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Newly released Gardena Police videos show officers killing unarmed man
LA Times via Youtube ^ | 07/14/15

Posted on 07/15/2015 8:44:50 AM PDT by Enlightened1

A federal court released police video recordings Tuesday that show Gardena officers fatally shooting one unarmed man and wounding another in a 2013 incident that resulted in a recent $4.7 million legal settlement by the city.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: gardena; killing; officers; police; unarmedmsn
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1 posted on 07/15/2015 8:44:50 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Here is the 1 minute and 11 seconds video,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Teqn_8tu5D4


2 posted on 07/15/2015 8:45:26 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Were they bikers, deaf, mentally challenged, physically challenged or just citizens?


3 posted on 07/15/2015 8:46:31 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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F) Amish


4 posted on 07/15/2015 8:48:05 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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Where...

oh thats right the victims werent black so revrunt sharpton kept his distance from these particular shootings. much


5 posted on 07/15/2015 8:49:04 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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Who knows, but one thing I have noticed in all these police shooting videos.

Why are the cops unloading their entire clips when they shoot?


6 posted on 07/15/2015 8:49:06 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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The baseball cap of that guy who was shot looked dangerous. You never know when you might come across an expert in Kung-Fu hat throwing.


7 posted on 07/15/2015 8:52:54 AM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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Why are cops unloading their entire mags when they shoot?
They don’t want conflicting testimony?


8 posted on 07/15/2015 8:54:00 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Enlightened1

Why were they originally there?


9 posted on 07/15/2015 8:55:25 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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it’s their training.

and their training is wrong.

but cops rarely are held accountable when they are just following procedure.

however, the people who wrote the procedures are nameless and faceless and never held to account either.

this is how police states come into existence and this is how citizens and cops become mutual enemies.

whatever happened to the days when cops were part of the community? when calling the cops was more likely to solve a problem than to escalate it to a life or death situation? i personally won’t call the cops for any reason now. i simply don’t trust my life in their hands - and i’m a law-abiding conservative.

cops being videotaped and then held criminally liable is a start, but we also have to start incarcerating bad guys, which is not happening as much as it should. liberal judges routinely let bad guys right back out on the streets because of “overcrowding” in jails. the whole criminal justice system had been destroyed and made non-functional by the cultural marxists and nobody is really saying or doing anything about it. why does the ACLU get to determine whether a sentence is fair or unfair? why does to take years to bring criminal cases to trial? why does it take decades to execute somebody on death row?


10 posted on 07/15/2015 8:59:11 AM PDT by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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Why are the cops unloading their entire clips when they shoot?

That's the training. Once you've made the decision to use deadly force, you keep going until you can't go no more.

11 posted on 07/15/2015 8:59:26 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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Wow, what great shooting! Every round hit the taxpayer’s wallet dead center.


12 posted on 07/15/2015 9:04:41 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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I used to live in Gardena, Ca. For 13 years. 30+ years ago there were a lot of asians living there. They have all moved to Torrance and Palos Verdes. Gardena has gone down hill quite a bit. I don’t know about this incident.

We moved to Torrance because we had a few to many incidents happen at and around our home. Gang members chased a guy into our driveway to thump on him and we had a homeless guy remove our crawl space screen and sleep under the house one night. Called the cops and had him removed.
Gardena cops don’t mess around. Same with Torrance! lol A Surfer comes to mind.


13 posted on 07/15/2015 9:05:09 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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lawsuits against cops (and the lawyers fees) shouldn’t come out of the taxpayers pockets. they should come out of the pensions of the police force. cops shouldn’t have pensions though. no governmental employee should. that’s another problem to be fixed. i sometimes feel that this country is so hopelessly screwed up and so many people have a vested interest in NOT fixing it that nothing can actually be done to put us back on the right road. realizing how truly corrupt this country has become depresses me.


14 posted on 07/15/2015 9:09:09 AM PDT by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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lawsuits against cops

Lawsuits hell those pieces of filth should get the needle

15 posted on 07/15/2015 9:14:02 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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That video is pretty plain. It is a relatively long time those guys are just standing there hands up. No one made any sudden move. No one reached to his waistband. They were just standing there and then got shot down. This was target practice, nothing more.


16 posted on 07/15/2015 9:15:18 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: TangibleDisgust

The more government there is the more corruption there is and must be.


17 posted on 07/15/2015 9:19:54 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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To: TangibleDisgust
lawsuits against cops (and the lawyers fees) shouldn’t come out of the taxpayers pockets. they should come out of the pensions of the police force. cops shouldn’t have pensions though. no governmental employee should. that’s another problem to be fixed. i sometimes feel that this country is so hopelessly screwed up and so many people have a vested interest in NOT fixing it that nothing can actually be done to put us back on the right road. realizing how truly corrupt this country has become depresses me.

Correct

Correct

Correct

Correct

Correct

Don't "feel", think it through, you're doing well so far.

The pendulum always swings back in the other direction, not necessarily before complete collapse, though.

Dwell on the few good things.

18 posted on 07/15/2015 9:35:29 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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Why are the cops unloading their entire clips when they shoot?

They are trained to do this. Not saying I agree with it, but they are trained to shoot until the perp hits the ground. The reasoning is if you shoot them once, they can still reach for a gun and shoot back so you basically keep shooting until the person stops moving. That's why you hear of cases where cops unload 50+ bullets into someone. It's easy to get to that bullet count when half a dozen cops are shooting at once until the person hits the ground.

19 posted on 07/15/2015 9:36:08 AM PDT by Marko413
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What makes this all so damning is that the police shot the victims of the crime they were investigating.

What a message that sends!


20 posted on 07/15/2015 9:47:26 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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