February 2, 2023

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February 2, 2023

California police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?

Source: Yahoo via AOL

A Los Angeles County police department is facing intense criticism this week after a video surfaced on social media of two officers fatally shooting a double amputee moving away from them.

The short video showed the 36-year-old Black man, Anthony Lowe Jr., missing the bottom halves of both legs, holding a knife but leaving his wheelchair and shuffling away from the officers.

Jeffrey Fagan, a Columbia University law professor who is an expert on policing, told Yahoo News in an email that the details of the case call into question whether the use of lethal force was warranted.

“It's hard to imagine that the police couldn’t disarm a man in a wheelchair with either a Taser or some other less lethal force,” Fagan said. “Police often observe a ‘20-foot rule’ as the zone around a suspect when they are free from danger, and that they are in danger within that zone. ... I think most reasonable people would have thought the police had overstated the threat and were using an unreasonable level of force.”

Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/california-police-fatally-shoot-double-233840772.html

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I was in Tucson when a TPD officer emptied his clip into the back of a wheelchair bound man on Valencia Road.

Another day, another police officer killing people.

Man was black and "holding a knife."



Missing two legs. Cops are trigger happy cowards.