L.A. Cops Kill A Person Every Week, And 82% Of The Dead Are Black Or Latino

[KamaAina]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/19/lapd-killing-person-every-week/

Los Angeles law enforcement officers have killed 600 predominantly black and Hispanic citizens since 2000, averaging a person a week, finds a hard-hitting report by the Los Angeles Youth Justice Coalition.

As Huffington Post reports:

The report, titled “Don’t Shoot to Kill,” examines homicide data from the Los Angeles County coroner’s department and incorporates details from numerous media reports on specific incidents. Between Jan. 1, 2000 and August 31, 2014, the report found, law enforcement officers in Los Angeles County used lethal force resulting in the deaths of at least 589 people. That’s almost one death a week, for nearly 14 years.

The report comes after a six week period in which LAPD officers shot and killed an unarmed black man named Ezell Ford, and allegedly beat Omar Abrego to death....

While the overall trend of homicide since 2007 was downward, law enforcement use of deadly force resulting in homicide “doubled to between 4 and 8 percent” of the total — and there are clear indications of racial bias. Of the 314 people killed between 2007 and 2014, 82 percent were black or Hispanic.

edit: One wonders how many of the remaining 18% were other people of color, such as Filipinos.

[Rex]

1. And how many lives do they save per week?

I'm curious if there is a statistic on that.

[KamaAina]

2. I would imagine that the racial breakdown on that figure

would mirror the population of L.A. County rather closely.

edit: Besides, their job is to save lives, not to take them.

[Louisiana1976]

3. It's interesting that people haven't been rioting there the way they did in Ferguson or the way they

did in LA itself after the Rodney King verdict. The racial bias shown by the cops who kill is very wrong.

[KamaAina]

4. The L.A. Rebellion came after the killer cops were cleared of charges.

I remember sitting in a bar in Stratford, Conn. when the verdict was announced. So help me, the jukebox was playing Billy Joel's "Say Goodbye To Hollywood". You just can't make this $#*! up!