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12-20-2013, 08:54 PM
By Nicole Flatow (https://thinkprogress.org/person/nflatow/) on December 20, 2013 at 11:46 am
Last Friday, Los Angeles Police Department officers shot dead a mentally ill man (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/12/19/3088591/police-officers-shoot-kill-unarmed-mentally-man/) who had already gotten out of his car after a police chase with his hands up. The incident, which was broadcast on national television for all to judge, was the latest in (https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/knife-wielding-man-shot-dead-cops-brookyln-sources-article-1.1521073?utm_content=bufferc326e&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer#ixzz2l2DjYq7S) a string (https://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/11/sheriffs_officers_shoot_and_kill_alleged_armed_assailaint.html) of more than a dozen (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/06/2902591/police-shooting-unarmed-man/) police shootings (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/27/sad-death-kimani-gray-society-bad-choices) that have surfaced (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unarmed-man-possibly-looking-for-help-after-wreck-shot-by-police/) in the news (https://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-16/politics/42115744_1_fatal-shooting-police-officer-taser) just in the last few months (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/andy-lopez_n_4152819.html). Before that, it was the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Tyler Comstock (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/08/2913741/police-shoot-kill-iowa-19-year-drove-parents-truck/) after his father called the cops to report that his son drove away in his car. And other incidents involved death during traffic stop (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/12/09/3037751/campus-officer-shoots-kills-texas-student-traffic-stop/), calls to police for help (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/13/2937561/police-shoot-kill-mentally-man-carrying-shovel-help-mother/) with a mentally ill family member, and a man whose watering hose was mistaken for a gun (https://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-shoot-kill-man-watering-lawn-family-awarded-6-5-million/). ... continues here (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/12/20/2936461/anatomy-police-shooting/#)
Last Friday, Los Angeles Police Department officers shot dead a mentally ill man (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/12/19/3088591/police-officers-shoot-kill-unarmed-mentally-man/) who had already gotten out of his car after a police chase with his hands up. The incident, which was broadcast on national television for all to judge, was the latest in (https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/knife-wielding-man-shot-dead-cops-brookyln-sources-article-1.1521073?utm_content=bufferc326e&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer#ixzz2l2DjYq7S) a string (https://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/11/sheriffs_officers_shoot_and_kill_alleged_armed_assailaint.html) of more than a dozen (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/06/2902591/police-shooting-unarmed-man/) police shootings (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/27/sad-death-kimani-gray-society-bad-choices) that have surfaced (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unarmed-man-possibly-looking-for-help-after-wreck-shot-by-police/) in the news (https://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-16/politics/42115744_1_fatal-shooting-police-officer-taser) just in the last few months (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/andy-lopez_n_4152819.html). Before that, it was the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Tyler Comstock (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/08/2913741/police-shoot-kill-iowa-19-year-drove-parents-truck/) after his father called the cops to report that his son drove away in his car. And other incidents involved death during traffic stop (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/12/09/3037751/campus-officer-shoots-kills-texas-student-traffic-stop/), calls to police for help (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/13/2937561/police-shoot-kill-mentally-man-carrying-shovel-help-mother/) with a mentally ill family member, and a man whose watering hose was mistaken for a gun (https://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-shoot-kill-man-watering-lawn-family-awarded-6-5-million/). ... continues here (https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/12/20/2936461/anatomy-police-shooting/#)