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.

    • RabbePompano@lemmy.world
      47·
      7 months ago

      It’s a bad article and a bad video. The non-lethal rounds did not kill him. The video says an officer “opened fire”, after the non-lethal didn’t work and the man grabbed the other officer’s weapon. Opened fire in this case means a standard firearm. Other actually good articles covering this make that clear. He was struck in the chest with an actual bullet fired from a hand gun.

      I agree the cops should have handled it differently and fucked up as usual

        • RabbePompano@lemmy.world
          12·
          7 months ago

          That’s what the article calls them. What do you call beanbag rounds and rubber bullets and stun guns? I see the term less lethal or less-than-lethal used.