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Posted on 04/09/2021 6:59:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The Los Angeles Police Department is facing a lawsuit after officers arrested a [b]lack man outside of his home during a search for a white suspect in 2019.
In newly released video, officers can be seen detaining music producer Antone Austin outside of his Hollywood home in what his attorneys said is a case a racial profiling, excessive force and wrongful arrest.
According to LAPD, officers initially responded to the call on Fountain Avenue March 24, 2019 for a man suspected of violating a restraining order.
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Yeah, but LAPD is notorious for screwing up identification like that - getting the basics wrong. While they were searching for the very obviously African American Christopher Dorner and his gray Nissan Titan full size truck, they pulled over a bright blue Toyota Tacoma compact pickup with two Hispanic women in it. And then shot it over 100 times. No charges or disciplinary actions beyond a slap on the wrist were ever lodged.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_and_manhunt#Truck_misidentifications
The LAPD needs to be reined in, badly, for reasons having nothing to do with potential racism. If your department can’t figure out the difference between grossly different paint colors let alone skin colors, your officers have no business in law enforcement.
LAPD sounds like a training ground for our vaunted FBI.
There was a big push not long ago, by Blacks, to remove such identifiers as race from the description given to cops about a perp. This article, like so many others today, does not say whether the cops knew the race of the perp at the time. It says only that the suspect was white. So, maybe the cops didn’t know the race and him saying he wasn’t the guy isn’t going to stop the cops. Don’t know if this is the case, but it is what the Blacks have been working for — no race in the description.
The case you presented was the first one that popped into my mind as well. I can understand confusing the style of trucks( Nissan vs Toyota) and the color (blue vs gray) but how can they confuse 2 Hispanic women as having any resemblance to the black guy, and then just go ballistic without any provocation is really stretching it. They didn’t even bother to ask the women for ID before they opened fire.
Normally I’d say that could be a possibility. But this is the LAPD. See my cites at post 2; they can’t tell the difference between bright neon blue and gray/black vehicles. Telling skin colors apart is probably asking too much.
The trucks are two different size classes - the Titan is a full size truck and the Tacoma they shot up is a compact - it’s a little under half the size. The Titan was a dark gray and the Tacoma was *BRIGHT NEON BLUE*. There’s no excuse for them missing that, especially for ‘trained observers.’
Everything else is just piling on.
The cops also reportedly didn’t even apologize to the women they shot on the scene.
the police never once asked him his name or anything else regarding why he was there. All they did was Order him to Put his hands behind his back so they could arrest him for NO REASON. A simple dozen words spoken by the cops would have prevented this FELONY KIDNAPPING.
I always try to give Leos the benefit of the doubt, but sometimes you just shake your head. It is such a hard job, and such a vital one, but jeez...
“...no race in the description.”
Problem here is the slippery slope. It doesn’t sound like a racial profiling based upon the description, just the opposite. But I have seen situations where you can get a group of witnesses together and get a description separately, and get a number of different possibilities. So if they were looking for a white person, they weren’t supposedly looking for a black one. Therefore the description, since it was not used, is irrelevant and serves no purpose to see the need to have one at all for anything or any reason. So much for profiling. Welcome to criminal land.
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The article didn’t say if he was wanted for a different crime. Lots of unanswered questions.
That used to be my default position, too. Not any more. I don't assume they're at fault, either. I just no longer give them that extra slight edge of credence.
I used to live in La and had a couple of incidents with LAPD that taught me that their ranks are full of men who are simply, well, insane.
Sometimes when one idiot fires his weapon or has an accidental discharge the others will just start firing.
If they fired at least 100 rounds and the women lived it doesn’t sat much about their marksmanship either.
It’s like a more violent episode of the Keystone Kops.
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Don’t these LA cops know they were supposed to send in Social Workers with bouquets first?
When the LAPD, officers initially responded to the call were the notified of the suspects race bet not it isn’t PC.
Exactly. The nearby Torrance PD actually did it too - shot up a Honda Ridgeline, which looks nothing like a Titan other than the fact of it having a cargo bed, driven by a white guy who had just talked to two Torrance officers that had instructed him to turn around. Two other officers immediately, as in within the view of the other officers, rammed him and shot at him. LA County whitewashed it.
https://www.scpr.org/news/2014/01/15/41605/la-district-attorney-torrance-cop-who-fired-at-wro/
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