Things About To Kick Off In L.A.?

[Ryan Ruck]

LAPD was involved in the shooting of a homeless man Sunday. Assuming the guy grabbed an officer's gun as the video suggests, it would be a good shoot. At least the shooting officer was black but, then again, doubt that would be much of a deterrent to the mob. As the videographer suggests, he's now a sellout.

Shock Video Emerges Of LAPD Shooting Homeless Man

March 1, 2015



A graphic video posted online Sunday shows Los Angeles Police Department officers shooting a homeless man during a dramatic struggle.

The video begins with a cluster of officers, seven in total, fighting with the man on the sidewalk in the Skid Row area of the city.

Tarps line the street and other people are milling around in the background of the scene.

As one officer is trading punches and struggling with the man, he drops his police baton. A woman picks it up and the officer yells out “give me my stick.”

At that point, two officers move towards the woman and throw her on the ground and handcuff her.

The officer was on top of the man, and the struggle continued. A Taser was deployed, but the man continued to struggle. The officer is then heard saying what sounds like “he’s going for my gun” or “drop the gun.”

Five shots ring out as the officers back away and hold their weapons on the motionless man. It is unclear if the same officer fired all of the shots or if other officers began firing after the initial shot.

After the shooting, a crowd gathered behind the cameraman grows agitated.

“Y’all guys killed that man,” the man filming the incident is heard saying. The video was uploaded to Facebook by a man named Anthony Blackburn. The caption on the entry is “Homeless man just killed by police minutes ago downtown L.A.”

“And there’s nine motherfucking police out there,” he said. “Ain’t nobody got no fucking guns.”

The homeless man, who the Los Angeles Times reported goes by the name “Africa,” died at the hospital.

LAPD spokesman Sgt. Barry Montgomery told the Times that officers were in the area responding to a robbery call.

One witness, 29-year-old David Horne, told the Times that Africa had been fighting with someone in a tent when officers intervened. They used a Taser on him in order to drag him out of the tent. That’s when the fight ensued.

Towards the end of the video, the officers begin to secure the scene. The officer who had been on top of the man moves towards people in the crowd, many of whom are filming.

The man behind the camera identifies the officer, who is black, and says “that’s the one that killed him right there” before barraging him with other insults.

A close analysis of the video does not clarify which cop began the shooting. The image captured in the split second before the first shot was fired shows what appears to be the barrel of a gun. The officer holding it is not the same officer who was fighting the man and yelling that his gun was being grabbed.

The homeless man’s race cannot be determined from the video.

(Never seen a creepy ass cracker go by the name of "Africa".)

Here's the video. It is NSFW due to language. You don't really see any gore.

[American Patriot]

Technically, this shouldn't be under bad cops I guess... but it started out as "Cops shoot Homeless man for no reason" and became what it is now.

The homeless man was a felon, and fought the cops.

I think Ryan posted the video someplace, but I can't find it now.

Man killed by LAPD stole French identity, stirring questions

By TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press | March 4, 2015 | Updated: March 4, 2015 8:36am


This February 2000 photo provided by Ventura County Sheriff's Office shows Charley Saturmin Robinet after his arrest for robbery. Robinet was killed Sunday, March 1, 2015, after a confrontation with police. Authorities say he tried to grab a probationary officer's gun and three officers fatally shot him. The three officers who fired their weapons in a videotaped struggle that left a homeless man dead were veterans of the Skid Row beat who had special training to deal with mentally ill and other people in the downtrodden area, police leaders said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Months before he was fatally shot by police, a man walked the streets of Skid Row, keeping those he encountered in the dark about his past bank robbery conviction, his wanted probation status or even that the false name he lived under had been purloined from a Frenchman years earlier.

With those twists revealed Tuesday, more questions emerged about the man and his still-murky identity, including how he fell through so many cracks and ended up among the homeless of downtown Los Angeles before millions watched his death in a videotaped struggle.

A law enforcement official identified the man police shot Sunday as Charley Saturmin Robinet, 39. The official wasn't authorized to speak publicly and talked to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.

But Axel Cruau, the consul general for France in Los Angeles, said the man stole the identity of a French citizen and was living in the United States under an assumed name. He had applied for a French passport in the late 1990s to come to the United States to pursue an acting career.

"The real Charley Robinet is in France apparently living a totally normal life and totally unaware his identity had been stolen years and years ago," Cruau said.

Using that name, the man was identified as a French national in 2000 when he was convicted of robbing a Wells Fargo branch and pistol-whipping an employee in an effort to pay for acting classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.

[Ryan Ruck]

Over in News. I'll move these over there.

[Ryan Ruck]

Had to delete the original post. The HTML was hosing things up. Reposted it in mostly plain text.

[American Patriot]

Thanks.

They have both my browsers screwed up, so I'm having a LOT of issues lately