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Brian Beaird never appeared to be a threat to the officers who shot him 21 times.
He went for his waistband. Yeah, it's so strange how much unarmed men, confronted by police with guns drawn, seem to LOVE digging in their waistband. Police claimed that they thought they saw Brian Beaird do this over and over again, but as you watch the video below, you won't see anything like thiswhich is probably why the City of Los Angeles just agreed to pay his family $5 million. In essence, Los Angeles, which refused to prosecute the three officers who fired 21 shots at Beaird, are forcing the taxpayers to cover it.
Brian Beaird, a 51-year-old veteran struggling with mental illness, led police on a car chase throughout Los Angeles until he crashed his car and staggered out of it with his hands up and back turned toward the officers. The entire ordeal was on live television in Los Angeles as the car chase was covered close up by news helicopterincluding the final shooting, which seemed to even stump the newscasters at the time. Beaird, clear as day, posed absolutely no threat to the officers."
"How is this justified? Why are we continually told to ignore our own eyes with this type of police violence? Why did the City of Los Angeles pay the family $5 million if it was justified?
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/lapd-kill-unarmed-mentally-ill-veteran-tv-and-their-defense-wont-shock-you
Our system is broken. Agree?"
glasshouses
(484 posts)GuntherGebelWilliams
(58 posts)The pigs know that every chase in L.A. is broadcast on some network or another.
How about we disband the police departments and go to a citizen patrol type of situation.
glasshouses
(484 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,476 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,476 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)"He couldn't understand why the police were chasing him, and he didn't know what to do," Galipo said. "He called his family during the pursuit and asked what he should do. And they told him he should pull over ... and he said 'I'm afraid' and kept going."
jeepers
(314 posts)The ptb will need the police to protect their asses.