09-02-2020, 11:54 AM
This incident bothers me because it happened to me. Sheriff's Deputies caught up with me right in front of my house after I rode my bike through a stop sign. There were no cars, so I just went. They demanded that I put my hands up in case I had a gun. It was ridiculous, but of course I didn't have a gun and I didn't resist. I wanted to have a talk with them, but deferred and just had a few words. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had been a black man.
It appears this guy, who lived in an area close to where Rodney King was beaten, not so long ago by my reckoning (since the 21st century is a nothingburger in all ways), apparently had a gun amidst a bundle he was carrying while running away from the deputies, but did not have it in his hand. I hope there's not another riot. But it seems to me that cops who favor Trump may be trying to provoke riots so they can get votes from fearful suburbanites like Classic Xer.
Black man stopped for allegedly riding bicycle unlawfully ends up shot and killed
From NY Times via Daily Los:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/...and-killed?
What started as a stop for unlawfully riding a bicycle ended with a 29-year-old Black man dead and protesters once again demanding justice, this time in South Los Angeles. Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shot and killed Dijon Kizzee Monday afternoon after he ran from deputies and a gun was later found on the scene, officials told the Los Angeles Times. ”During the contact, a fight ensued between the suspect and deputies. The suspect produced a handgun and a deputy-involved ‘hit’ shooting occurred,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement. “The suspect’s handgun was recovered. The suspect was pronounced deceased at the scene.”
His family, who is demanding the unidentified deputies be arrested, however, said there is more to the story than officials have revealed.
Kizzee’s aunt, who The New York Times identified as Fletcher Fair, said the shooting was “so dirty” of the sheriff’s department. She spoke Tuesday during a press conference held at the shooting site. No other race is targeted by police more than Black people, she said. “It’s just us, and we’re tired. We are absolutely tired,” she said of law enforcement officials. “Whatever they get they get because they damn deserve it (…) If you don’t like us, stay out of our neighborhoods. Don’t come here. We didn’t ask for you.”
Sheriff’s Lt. Brandon Dean told the Los Angeles Times he didn't know the vehicle codes Kizzee was accused of breaking when two deputies driving in the area spotted him at 3:15 PM, but when the deputies stopped Kizzee, he dropped his bike and ran. When authorities eventually caught up with Kizzee, he punched one of them in the face, and dropped a bundle of clothes he was carrying in the process, Dean said. Deputies spotted the gun in the bundle and shot Kizzee an unknown number of times, Dean said.
It appears this guy, who lived in an area close to where Rodney King was beaten, not so long ago by my reckoning (since the 21st century is a nothingburger in all ways), apparently had a gun amidst a bundle he was carrying while running away from the deputies, but did not have it in his hand. I hope there's not another riot. But it seems to me that cops who favor Trump may be trying to provoke riots so they can get votes from fearful suburbanites like Classic Xer.
Black man stopped for allegedly riding bicycle unlawfully ends up shot and killed
From NY Times via Daily Los:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/...and-killed?
What started as a stop for unlawfully riding a bicycle ended with a 29-year-old Black man dead and protesters once again demanding justice, this time in South Los Angeles. Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shot and killed Dijon Kizzee Monday afternoon after he ran from deputies and a gun was later found on the scene, officials told the Los Angeles Times. ”During the contact, a fight ensued between the suspect and deputies. The suspect produced a handgun and a deputy-involved ‘hit’ shooting occurred,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement. “The suspect’s handgun was recovered. The suspect was pronounced deceased at the scene.”
His family, who is demanding the unidentified deputies be arrested, however, said there is more to the story than officials have revealed.
Kizzee’s aunt, who The New York Times identified as Fletcher Fair, said the shooting was “so dirty” of the sheriff’s department. She spoke Tuesday during a press conference held at the shooting site. No other race is targeted by police more than Black people, she said. “It’s just us, and we’re tired. We are absolutely tired,” she said of law enforcement officials. “Whatever they get they get because they damn deserve it (…) If you don’t like us, stay out of our neighborhoods. Don’t come here. We didn’t ask for you.”
Sheriff’s Lt. Brandon Dean told the Los Angeles Times he didn't know the vehicle codes Kizzee was accused of breaking when two deputies driving in the area spotted him at 3:15 PM, but when the deputies stopped Kizzee, he dropped his bike and ran. When authorities eventually caught up with Kizzee, he punched one of them in the face, and dropped a bundle of clothes he was carrying in the process, Dean said. Deputies spotted the gun in the bundle and shot Kizzee an unknown number of times, Dean said.