U.S. police have shot dead another black man, who they
said had a handgun but had dropped it during a violent
altercation in Los Angeles, triggering fresh outrage as
tensions soar over racism and police brutality. The man, named in local media as 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, was riding his bicycle when Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies tried to stop him for an unspecified vehicle code violation on Monday afternoon.

He fled on foot, and when officers caught up with him he
punched one deputy in the face, dropping some items of
clothing he was carrying, police said. "The deputies noticed that inside the clothing items that he dropped was a black semi-automatic handgun, at which time a deputy-involved shooting occurred," Lieutenant Brandon Dean told reporters.

It was not clear if the man was reaching for the gun when he was shot. Dean said officials had yet to interview the deputies involved. "So, he did not have the gun in his hand, it had already dropped to the ground, so when he was actually shot, he was unarmed at that point?" a reporter asked during the televised press conference. "I don't know that," Dean replied, adding later: "If this individual was reaching for a semi-automatic handgun, I would suggest ... that's probably why deadly force was employed."

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Up to 100 people gathered at the scene demanding justice in the hours after the shooting, according to local media. "What's the use of having the prison system if you all are just going to kill us," one woman told a CBS News reporter through tears. "What are you all here for? Who are you protecting?"

The latest killing came as U.S. President Donald Trump was headed for Kenosha, Wisconsin Tuesday, where police shot black father Jacob Blake seven times in the back on August 23, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

Blake's shooting by a white officer ignited fresh grief and
protests three months after the killing of George Floyd, who suffocated beneath the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis in May, cracking open the most widespread civil unrest in the U.S. since the 1960s.

The demonstrations in Kenosha have deteriorated repeatedly into violence as armed white vigilantes face off against protesters, culminating in the killing of two people. A white 17-year-old Trump supporter has been arrested and charged with the murders.

Source: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-09-01/U-S-police-shoot-and-kill-another-black-man-TraR9sITEQ/index.html

Mynd44
OAM4J

Why are they kneeling down with one kneel when they know they are still going to shot them again?

If AU is what it should have been...



We should have given this guys atleast a warning...


The African American that are being killed are African first

The killing would never stop until Black lives itself gets to matter amongst Fellow Blacks community in the US

Until this is fixed good luck to them

US cops shooting unarmed civilian, that's bad.. US is a #ZOO.........

These cops continue to pooh-pooh Trump's slim chances in the upcoming election and he is also not helping with his silence and footdrag over police reforms

Dj4kerty AGAIN OOO

Democrats at work. If you know, you know.

He no concern us...

Borno killings, South Kaduna killings, Jos killings, are still fresh in our minds.