Protests erupt after police shoot knife-wielding man who charged cop in Lancaster

New York Post ^ | September 14, 2020 | Elizabeth Rosner and Lia Eustachewich

[karpov]

Protesters poured onto the streets of Lancaster, Pennsylvania Sunday night calling for “justice” — for a man shot dead by police while charging at an officer with a knife.

Body camera footage showed Ricardo Munoz, 27, brandishing a knife and wielding it over an officer’s head as cops responded to a domestic disturbance around 4:15 p.m.

The blade-wielding Lancaster, Pennsylvania, man shot dead by police was previously busted in 2019 for knifing four people in the city, according to his lawyer and officials.

It was not the first time he’s been accused of a knife attack.

Protesters marched from the scene of the deadly shooting on Laurel and Union streets to the Lancaster Police Department about a mile away, hurling bricks, smashing windows and vandalizing police cars.

After the crowd gathered on an access ramp near the station, police asked them to move, issuing several warnings that “chemical munitions” would be used, PennLive.com reported.

“OC spray,” or pepper spray, was eventually deployed when the mob refused to move, police said, adding that some were “physically challenging officers that were moving to clear people from the ramp.”

Bricks were thrown through the front of the police station and post office, police said.

Cops received a 911 call to a home on the 300 block of Laurel Street in downtown Lancaster Sunday afternoon, with the caller saying her brother was getting aggressive with his mother and trying to break into her house, police said in a release.

Body cam footage, taken from the first officer on scene, captured the seconds leading up to the fatal shooting.

The video shows the officer initially making contact with a woman at the home — as Munoz suddenly bursts through the front door, charging at the officer with a knife in his right hand, police said.

[Carriage Hill]

Blue county, cowed police, dems & leftists rule, anti-PA CCW rules and citizens from neighboring counties can be arrested for violating the city’s firearm laws. I’m from next-door York Cty, but carry anyway. Eff ‘em; my atty’s on speed dial.

[Deepeasttx]

<<<..The city was horrible with many non-whites....

sounds racist to me. You are part of the problem >>>

Please identify the ‘problem’?

And then I will decide if I am contributing to it.

I think you are more of a Chamberlain than an American.

White christian hertoesexual males are targeted. I will call them out all the time. You can start a campfire and sing ‘Cum by Ya’ all you want. It will never appease the radicals. Eff off!