Keep Your Teddy Bears, Protest Signs, Flowers, Candles & T-Shirts b/c IT will Happen Again & Again in Racist System: White LAPD Cops Gun Down Homeless Black Man in Downtown L.A.

The LA “Safer Cities initiative" =  a Safer City for Whites and White Cop Immunity for Murdering Blacks. From [HERE] and [HERE] LAPD cops have shot and killed a homeless Black man during an altercation in central Los Angeles, in an incident caught on cell phone video. The graphic film shows a violent struggle between the man and several white officers in the city's Skid Row area. Two of the officers had body cameras - but that footage has not been released by the police. LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck said there are also  "dozens, literally of stationary cameras at 5th and San Pedro [the location of the incident) and we are reviewing all of that video." [MORE] [Don't hold your breath waiting for that in racist system. Bodycams and bodybags do not stop white supremacy/racism]. 

Cops claim that three officers opened fire after the man tried to grab a gun from an officer. Witnesses said the dead man was known as Africa and had been homeless after treatment for mental illness. The police refused to release info about his identity. 

The LA police department claimed officers had been responding to reports of a robbery and had attempted to use a Taser to subdue the suspect but he had "continued fighting and resisting". [MORE]

The fatal police shooting shines a harsh light on the downtown neighborhood that contains the highest concentration of homeless people in the US, and a controversial city program that was supposed to clean the area up. In photo, protest t-shirts available for $21.99 at Amazon. Expect racism in System of White Supremacy. Like Neely said, stock up on your protest supplies for signs, candles and teddy bears because it will not stop until we deal with the Cause and not just the effect. End circular thought and you will stop walking around in circles. To end police brutality end racism. To end racism neutralize white power. [MORE]  

Skid Row has a long history of homelessness. The area has attracted “hobos, aimless rail riders, transient workers, and people running away from past lives” since the 1880s, as charity Union Rescue Mission explains. A 1975 city policy that moved most social services for the homeless to the area made it a permanent destination for some of these people.

“The cops don’t want us here,” Ernie Soto, 34, who lay in a blanket near where the shooting took place, said Monday morning. “They tried to make an example out of him.”

“This is Skid Row,” said Mr. Soto, who said he had lived on the streets of Los Angeles since losing a job eight years ago. “This is for the homeless. I wish I could have a home, but it didn’t work out that way.”

The officers involved in the shooting were part of a city government plan called the “Safer Cities  Initiative,” first introduced under former police chief William Bratton in 2006. The initiative added 50 police to the area, tasked with the “broken windows” approach to policing, which holds that harsh punishments for small offenses stop more serious crimes from being committed. [MORE]

“Here’s a situation where you have an unarmed homeless man and you have six police officers, by my count, who came to apprehend the suspect,” Mr. Jones said. “This is another senseless death of another unarmed black man at the hands of police.”

Bruce Naivi, 37, a homeless man living near where the shooting took place, said he was not surprised by what had happened.

“I do not feel that the police are here to protect me,” he said. “I feel more like they have a badge to kill.”

LAPD Police Chief and white media put on show about the "justifiable homicide" of another non-white person.  “It appears to me that the officers acted compassionately up until the time that force was required,” Chief Beck added. “These are very difficult situations.” Beck, was pressed to note that a Black officer was also involved - inferring that this definitely was not racial. [MORE]