Salt Lake police confronted by protesters after cops shoot black teen armed with broom handle

Police in Salt Lake City, Utah, faced rock-throwing protesters after officers shot a young man who was involved in a fight with another man late on Saturday, the city’s police department and local media said.

There were conflicting reports about the age of the man who was shot. He was taken to a local hospital and no other details were immediately available Sunday on his name or condition.

(Update: Family members identified the teenager as 17-year-old Abdi Mohamed. Mohamed is in a coma as of Sunday morning.)

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One young man who said he was a witness, Selam Mohammad, 19, told reporters that police had shot a teenage friend from Kenya who was holding a broomstick and had been fighting with an older man before the officers arrived.

“He barely even turned around … I know he got hit in the chest and in the stomach,” Mohammad was quoted as telling the Deseret News newspaper. “My friend didn’t do anything,” he said.

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Here we go again. Shooting unarmed Black kids. This young man only had a broom handle and the cops panicked and shot him. What is it with these chickenshit cops that everything looks like a deadly weapon to them?

Fuck! Are these Murder-By-Cop™ shootings ever going to stop?