LAPD Cop Shoots Man to Death After Man Reached into Pocket to Provide Requested ID, Witness Says

[KamaAina]

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/05/lapd-cop-shoots-man-to-death-after-man-reached-into-pocket-to-provide-requested-id-witness-says/

Los Angeles police officer demanded identification from a homeless man named Brandon Glenn Tuesday night, then shot him twice when the man reached into his pocket to provide that identification, according to a witness.

The witness was interviewed by Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change in the video below, who did not want his face shown on camera out of fear of police retaliation.

But even Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said he was “very concerned” about the shooting after witnessing footage from a surveillance camera that recorded the incident....

That video has not been released but judging by Beck’s comments, it would contradict the version police initially told the media, which was that Glenn was shot during a “physical altercation” with police.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Like I said yesterday, woe be those of us who have homeless family or drug addicted family

not safe even from the police

[AuntPatsy]

2. It is not stopping nor slowing down even with all the high profile cases building up

against them, we should ask ourselves why are they not even attempting to hide tactics....

[BrotherIvan]

4. Because there are no repercussions

[AuntPatsy]

8. Proves there is more going on then we are aware of...I get from certain police officers

That when they get charged it's nothing more than 1. A Paid vacation. Or 2. An inconvience , my niece to,d us, she's new, that many of the officers sit around laughing at those that are beat and or a fatality..

She said they want those on the street to kill each other, they apparently get kicks out of those scenerios.

[BrotherIvan]

10. I hope your niece can stay safe and not turn into one of those jerks

They definitely are hiring a lot of the wrong people who get off on violence and murder. I have no idea how it changes.

[AuntPatsy]

13. Good news she's a great kid, she's had a tough life but remained up beat, I hope

She doesn't change,

[BrotherIvan]

17. Who knows, she might be chief of police one day

then she can clean up her department! Good for her though. I wish her the best.

[AuntPatsy]

21. It is her mothers goal,

[Cal Carpenter]

18. It is embedded in the system. *This is what they do.*

It isn't about individual cops making choices in the moment. Well, I take that back - if it is ever going to change it is going to *have* to come down to that. But it is systemic - this is what they have always done and are supposed to do.

But those cops who aren't doing it, and who even know how wrong it is, have either left the police force or learned to shut the fuck up - there is no middle ground. And the racism in it is systemic, clearly, black cops or other cops of color are involved or complicit/silent in a lot of recent examples - that's what I mean by it not being about individual's choices. It is even deeper and more insidious than that.

It's a real Which Side Are You On moment, it's why police unions aren't like other unions. It is the system and the culture that has existed for decades. It encourages racism so racists make great fucking cops.

Cops are here to protect private property/ownership, and to keep any resistance squashed. Fear is the goal. And the means will always include dehumanizing most people of color and many other categories of people. Race, and its twin, class. (and throw in gender, sexual identity, etc, first they come for the...)

They don't have to hide what they are doing, because unless there's a fucking revolution, there won't be enough changes to our judicial system, our education, media and economic system for them to stop. As others have pointed out, there are no repercussions.

Good thing they have centuries of examples to learn from in terms of quelling any sort of organizing and uprising...

Geeez I've gone off the rails. Sorry, didn't mean to derail, you inspired a rant with your question. LOL. I've just been thinking and talking about all this a lot lately. The 'serve and protect' thing doesn't mean what we think it does, and as more people are pushed to the lower ranks (at the same time cell phone cameras are ubiquitous), more of us are seeing firsthand what some have seen all along. The cops do not work for us. Well, not for most of us.

[AuntPatsy]

23. Excellent, very interesting reading, yes I know this has been going on for ages...

[justiceischeap]

3. I think if cops are so afraid that they shoot

without provocation they need another line of work.

[BrotherIvan]

5. Mopping up in jail works for me

They are murderers.

[joeybee12]

6. If the chief is "concerned"

You know he's guilty

[BrotherIvan]

11. Yup

[Jackpine Radical]

15. "Concerned" is Copspeak for "arranging the details of a coverup."

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. kick

[Iggo]

9. Bullying, murdering, cowards.

All of 'em.

[mountain grammy]

12. So many of these killer cops have records of violence

but they are allowed to remain on the job or go to another police force. One of the cops indicted in the Freddie Gray case had a record of violence as did the cop who murdered Tamir Rice.

Violent racists as law enforcement officers, what could possibly go wrong.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

14. General population. That's where pigs like this belong.

Crips, Bloods, and jailed pigs can all fight it out--gang against gang.

[secondwind]

16. seems like these cops are very paranoid lately! this is just GROSSLY wrong

[Dawson Leery]

19. Oink

[whereisjustice]

20. With our very own death squads, America is slowly moving to 3rd world social status with 1st world

police state.

[ybbor]

22. So when. Do we get to pull up the whole orchard?

And replant with a better crop? Cuz I am sick of all these bad apples!

[hunter]

24. Another reason not to carry ID.

I know it will get me in trouble someday, but a night or two in jail waiting for my identity to be confirmed would be preferable to getting shot by police as I reach for my ID.

Two times I had any real trouble with the police, back when I was barking mad, I didn't have any pockets to reach for. One time I was wearing only jogging shorts, in the days jogging shorts were very, very small. The second time I wasn't wearing anything, and the cops helped me find my clothes on the beach among the piles of kelp, past midnight. Someone had called them about a guy trying to drown himself, but I was happily body surfing alone and naked in the dark. No, I've never been graceful. Like so many of the odd experiences in my life it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. I think the police all knew me by then as an amusing but mostly harmless distraction from their more sordid graveyard shift duties of drunk and disorderlies, domestic violence, and so on.

Cops seem more dangerous to me today, as they always have been to anyone not white, male and previously dismissed as merely eccentric.

[KamaAina]

27. Wear it around your neck?

[SoLeftIAmRight]

25. MURDER

damn pigs

[cherokeeprogressive]

26. Fuck 'em then feed 'em to the fish.

[zappaman]

28. I live down the street.

I go to the coffee shop next door to where this happened every mornng.
Right now, no one knows anything...all kinds of conflicting stories.
I do know that there are cameras that recorded this, so the truth will come out.
But, it does sound like the cops over reacted and that's putting it mildly.

[Rhiannon12866]

30. Yikes! That's scary stuff! This whole incident is just horrible...

Let us know if you learn more. The truth need to come out on this. This kind of thing is happening far too often and it looks like no one has learned anything from the repercussions...

[Blue_In_AK]

29. This is sad,

and the police union is pissed off at the police chief for his statement. From what I read, Brendon was already subdued when the officer just stepped back and shot him.