Newly released video shows the moments when Los Angeles police opened fire on a man who as holding a plastic fork. The officers appear to fire several non lethal rounds as the man continued to move toward them.  Officers initially responded to a 911 caller who claimed an armed homeless man was getting aggressive with an employee.

Newly released video shows the moments when Los Angeles police opened fire on a man who as holding a plastic fork. The officers appear to fire several non lethal rounds as the man continued to move toward them. Officers initially responded to a 911 caller who claimed an armed homeless man was getting aggressive with an employee.

  • Nudding@lemmy.world
    484·
    9 months ago

    7 cops couldn’t take down a little guy with a plastic fork without killing him? How embarrassing.

    • kn33@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      But what if he poked them? That’d hurt, man. Can’t take the risk.

    • RabbePompano@lemmy.world
      78·
      9 months ago

      The article says they fired non-lethal rounds and doesn’t mention that he was killed. It’s a rage bait headline. Not that I want to support cops, but I don’t like falsehoods being thrown around

      • Nudding@lemmy.world
        101·
        9 months ago

        Watch the video next time, they shot him multiple times with “less lethal” rounds. He died from the injuries.

        There are no such things as non lethal rounds.

        • RabbePompano@lemmy.world
          47·
          9 months ago

          It’s a bad article and a bad video. The non-lethal rounds did not kill him. The video says an officer “opened fire”, after the non-lethal didn’t work and the man grabbed the other officer’s weapon. Opened fire in this case means a standard firearm. Other actually good articles covering this make that clear. He was struck in the chest with an actual bullet fired from a hand gun.

          I agree the cops should have handled it differently and fucked up as usual

          • Nudding@lemmy.world
            21·
            9 months ago

            Fair enough. My only correction, again, is that there are no such things as non lethal rounds.

            • RabbePompano@lemmy.world
              12·
              9 months ago

              That’s what the article calls them. What do you call beanbag rounds and rubber bullets and stun guns? I see the term less lethal or less-than-lethal used.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        They literally start CPR on him at the end of the video and the bottom text says “killing of a man”.

        Hope much more clear do you want the fact that he’s dead to be?