Kneeling man in Bay Area killed by police who say they mistook hammer for gun

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A 22-year-old man was in a half-kneeling position when an officer in a Bay Area city fatally shot him through a police vehicle's windshield, police said Wednesday.

Sean Monterrosa, 22, of San Francisco, was outside a Walgreens in Vallejo, California, shortly after midnight Tuesday when police responded to a report the store was being looted, police said.

Monterrosa began running toward a car, and then stopped, crouched down in a half-kneeling position facing officers, authorities said. He had in his sweatshirt pocket a hammer. Police thought it was a gun and that he was kneeling "in preparation to shoot."

Monterrosa reached for his waist area, police said, and an officer in a police vehicle shot him five times through the windshield, striking him once.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kneeling-man-bay-area-killed-142932485.html

[2naSalit]

1. Wow, now that was unhinged.

Bet he and whomever was in that vehicle will have hearing damage. Un fucking believable.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Hope someone caught that with a cellphone.

That idiot cop needs to be prosecuted.

[Chainfire]

3. If you do not have a firearm in your hand

you are not "preparing to shoot." In the history of this nation, no cop has ever been shot by a hammer.

[JHB]

4. Nor wallet, nor set of keys, nor candy bar.