Newly released video shows the moments when Los Angeles police opened fire on a man who as holding a plastic fork. The officers appear to fire several non lethal rounds as the man continued to move toward them. Officers initially responded to a 911 caller who claimed an armed homeless man was getting aggressive with an employee.
Give them a break. They thought it was an acorn.
7 cops couldn’t take down a little guy with a plastic fork without killing him? How embarrassing.
But what if he poked them? That’d hurt, man. Can’t take the risk.
The article says they fired non-lethal rounds and doesn’t mention that he was killed. It’s a rage bait headline. Not that I want to support cops, but I don’t like falsehoods being thrown around
Watch the video next time, they shot him multiple times with “less lethal” rounds. He died from the injuries.
There are no such things as non lethal rounds.
It’s a bad article and a bad video. The non-lethal rounds did not kill him. The video says an officer “opened fire”, after the non-lethal didn’t work and the man grabbed the other officer’s weapon. Opened fire in this case means a standard firearm. Other actually good articles covering this make that clear. He was struck in the chest with an actual bullet fired from a hand gun.
I agree the cops should have handled it differently and fucked up as usual
Fair enough. My only correction, again, is that there are no such things as non lethal rounds.
