Newly released video shows the moments when Los Angeles police opened fire on a man who as holding a plastic fork. The officers appear to fire several non lethal rounds as the man continued to move toward them.  Officers initially responded to a 911 caller who claimed an armed homeless man was getting aggressive with an employee.

Newly released video shows the moments when Los Angeles police opened fire on a man who as holding a plastic fork. The officers appear to fire several non lethal rounds as the man continued to move toward them. Officers initially responded to a 911 caller who claimed an armed homeless man was getting aggressive with an employee.

  • Flying Squid
    553·
    1 year ago

    Can you blame them? Could you imagine if he was able to get away with killing them by letting them bleed out after taking 10 minutes to cause thousands of tiny puncture wounds without anyone that didn’t have a gun being able to do anything about it?!

    Do you know how many cops die from forkings every year? Well… neither do I, but it’s probably a whole lot.

    Typical anti-cop sentiment from around here.

  • Nudding
    485·
    1 year ago

    7 cops couldn’t take down a little guy with a plastic fork without killing him? How embarrassing.

    • kn33English
      11·
      1 year ago

      But what if he poked them? That’d hurt, man. Can’t take the risk.

      • Nudding
        102·
        1 year ago

        Watch the video next time, they shot him multiple times with “less lethal” rounds. He died from the injuries.

        There are no such things as non lethal rounds.

          • Nudding
            22·
            1 year ago

            Fair enough. My only correction, again, is that there are no such things as non lethal rounds.

      • Maggoty
        1·
        1 year ago

        They literally start CPR on him at the end of the video and the bottom text says “killing of a man”.

        Hope much more clear do you want the fact that he’s dead to be?

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    241·
    1 year ago

    Well, he’s poor, and that’s about as good as being black when it comes to police interactions. I guess they’ll find no wrongdoing.