Another black tramp in the United States was shot dead by white police Witnesses said they fired five shots in a row

According to the Voice of China's "News Evening Peak" report, last year's case of white police shooting black youth in Ferguson City and white police strangling black men in New York City must still be fresh in everyone's memory, and a few days ago, there was another incident in Los Angeles where homeless black people were shot by the police.

The incident took place on a street in downtown Los Angeles on March 1, when several Los Angeles police officers got into an argument with a black homeless man who shot and killed him. Witnesses filmed the entire process.

The video shows a total of 6 police officers at the scene, the tramp punched the police after being pressed to the ground by the police, the two sides wrestled, just when the police and the tramp wrestled, a woman next to her tried to pick up the baton that fell on the scene, was controlled by two policemen, in the process of the police and the tramp wrestling, someone shouted to put down the gun and put down the gun, and then heard 5 consecutive gunshots, the homeless man was killed.

According to the police, the 3 police officers were responding to the local robbery report and summons, and when they arrived at the scene, they tried to subdue the deceased, first shooting the deceased with an electric dart gun, but the deceased got up shortly after falling to the ground and tried to fight with the police, continued to resist arrest, and tried to grab the police's gun, and the police immediately fired 5 shots to kill him.

After the incident, the police closed the scene, and many angry witnesses protested against the police, accusing them of excessive use of violence.

Witness: This tramp he had no weapons, the police shot him. They could have just pushed him to the ground and locked him up, but the police fired five shots at him! Other nearby residents said the homeless man who was shot, nicknamed "Africa," was not aggressive and had previously been treated for mental illness and then lived on the streets. "Africa" is said to have been treated for mental illness in medical institutions for 10 years and has been living on the streets as a homeless for months.

In the case of los Angeles police shooting and killing a homeless black man, Los Angeles Police Commissioner Charlie Lopez was killed. Baker defended the police. Baker said there was evidence that the man tried to snatch a police officer's gun during the process of being subdued.

Charlie Baker: The officers have done everything they can, but the facts are not satisfactory, I watched the live video, the officers were forced to use force, and the situation was very difficult. I express my condolences to the family of the deceased. I also sympathize with the police officers involved. Baker also said two of the police officers were wearing carry-on cameras at the time. He urged people not to jump to conclusions before the investigation was over. Police in Los Angeles also said there were several video monitors at the scene of the crime, and now the police are reviewing the footage at the time of the crime and hope that people who witnessed the crime will come forward to provide clues. The three officers who fired the shots are now ordered to take leave to await the outcome of the investigation.

In the United States, how are the gun configurations for police officers and under what circumstances can they be fired? Shi Zijian, a public safety expert who served as a U.S. police officer for 10 years, said that U.S. law stipulates that police cannot fire warnings, but should shoot directly. Firing a warning is a violation of the law and is subject to severe punishment. When the police point a gun at a suspect, it forms a direct deterrent, and when it is too late, it can be verbally warned, and when it is too late, it can be directly shot.

When can I shoot? And how to shoot? Shi Zijian said that the U.S. approach has only one sentence of legal standards, which is very clear, that is, "when the police or others are facing unlawful attacks that may endanger their lives or serious injuries, the police can shoot."

Hong Lin, a special observer of the Voice of China, said that there are more protections for police rights in US law, but in the process of reality, there will also be police abuse of power, and even tragic incidents caused by discrimination, which is also a problem that American society is deeply exploring.

Hong Lin: So it is precisely the kind of defect in the reality of the United States now, that is, the black man himself lacks such representation in a public law enforcement agency like the parliament, including the executive branch, including this police, so there are many innate inequalities that lead to the occurrence of that kind of incident in the process of fingering, which often becomes a fuse, and he triggers not only a police law enforcement problem, but actually some deep-seated problems in American society that have existed for many years. Including so much like this black man, then this kind of social status is relatively low, including the development of growth and employment, there is a ceiling situation, so here, is a lot of complex social problems in American society, have been mixed in, and this is also Oba President Ma said that the United States problem.