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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
On Monday, another Black man resists arrest and runs away from the cops, another handful of bullets in his back.
He was stopped because of... *checks notes* Ah yes, the dangerous felony of ‘riding a bicycle in violation of vehicle code.’ Better execute him.
https://www.latimes.com/california/s...f-dijon-kizzee
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This is clearly not the same and you know it.
The guy is in a fist fight, you can see him swinging at 0:28, he grapples and seems to have lost something a second later and falls to the ground before police opens fire.
If there was a gun involved with him already assaulting officers and was reaching for it on the ground, there's definitely potential justification of force here. The video does point to something falling on the ground and the statement of events provided does match what the video seems to show.
Obviously a body cam would be able to acknowledge that he had a gun, if it was running...right?
Now if we get stories from LAPD that 'the 3 officers forgot to put their body cam on' there is a problem. The whole question here to me is if a gun was present and why the situation escalated to where it was from a minor infraction. I'm not accepting the LAPD's statement without bodycam evidence, but at the same time I'm not going to compare this one to the James Blake incident because they aren't the same at all.
Now this case, with newly released details, is way worse.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/03/us/ro...ath/index.html