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Eugene

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Tue May 7, 2019, 06:30 PM May 2019

Vallejo officer who shot Willie McCoy killed unarmed man fleeing on bike - video shows

Source: The Guardian

Vallejo officer who shot Willie McCoy killed unarmed man fleeing on bike – video shows

Ryan McMahon stayed on the force after shooting Ronell Foster, a 33-year-old father who police say was riding his bike without a light

Sam Levin in Oakland
Tue 7 May 2019 22.37 BST Last modified on Tue 7 May 2019 22.38 BST

Vallejo police have released body-camera footage of an officer chasing an unarmed man in 2018 and fatally shooting him in the back as he was trying to flee.

The police officer, Ryan McMahon, stayed on the force after killing Ronell Foster and went on to shoot Willie McCoy, the 20-year-old who was sleeping in his car at a Taco Bell when a group of officers killed him earlier this year.

The disturbing footage of McMahon shooting Foster, a 33-year-old father who police said was riding his bike without a light, has sparked renewed outrage about the northern California police department and its troubled history of deadly force.

Paula McGowan, Foster’s mother, told the Guardian it was disturbing that McMahon killed her son and remained on the job: “Why is he still on the street? Why is he still on patrol? … It makes me angry as hell. It disgusts me, because it lets me know that they don’t care. They have no rules or protocol.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/07/vallejo-police-shooting-bike-ronell-foster-willie-mccoy
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Vallejo officer who shot Willie McCoy killed unarmed man fleeing on bike - video shows (Original Post) Eugene May 2019 OP
K&R, " including numerous cases involving the same officers." The thug cops are known this is what uponit7771 May 2019 #1

uponit7771

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1. K&R, " including numerous cases involving the same officers." The thug cops are known this is what
Tue May 7, 2019, 07:11 PM
May 2019

... is screwed up

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