Police Shoot 47 Bullets At A Homeless Guy Who Has A Toy Gun

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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- The Inglewood City Council said Tuesday that there is a video of a recent deadly police shooting.

Council members discussed the incident and three other officer-involved shootings in the past four months during a closed door session Tuesday night.

Residents lined up to give city leaders an earful, concerned about the recent shootings.

"When do we take up arms, when do we get mad, when do we stay angry, when do we stop asking them to help, when do we take it into our own hands," said one resident.

Residents said they felt the shootings and the use of force are questionable.

The latest shooting happened August 31, when more than a half dozen officers confronted a homeless man on the street. They shot 47 bullets at a man who had a toy plastic gun.

Police dashboard cameras caught the shooting on tape. The video is being reviewed, but there's no word if it will be made public.

All the shootings are under investigation.

Residents want city leaders to take action now.

"There are many, many great officers in the city of Inglewood. I know many of them, and I've worked with many of them. However, the concerns are with those who are combative, those who are obviously defensive, and those who are obviously dangerous to our communities," said another resident.

City leaders are suggesting that the police force look at their training methods and other processes that could help prevent future officer-involved shootings, but not much more than that was said during Tuesday night's meeting.

abc7.com: Inglewood: Homeless man shooting caught on tape 9/10/08

 

[Da_Funk]

Thats pretty fucked up. Sadly nothing will probably come of this.

 

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The next thread made about this will be titled "Cops Who Shot At Bum 47 Times Were Aquitted".

 

[ARon]

Lets not jump to conclusions, they probably needed 47 bullets the bum was dusted.

"On the count of 3 say fuck the police. 1, 2, 3."

So much to say but it's pointless. Police get the right to defend themselves with any type of force they want these days. I wish they were as good at their job as they think they are.

 

[Bender]

at least the bum was 'packing', afraid his trolly might get looted

lmao

reminds me of the homeless guy scene from american psycho "you wreak of shit!" hahahaha

But really though, dude took 47 bullets - that shit is harsh. could have shot him with copper instead of lead, stone him to death with money, that's irony

 

[Jokerman]

The only thing missing from the whole article is: DID HE DIE? You'd think that would be an imortant thing to tell us. For all I know, police shot 47 bullets at him and missed. I wouldn't be surprised. That's why they have to shoot so much at a suspect. Maybe one will hit him.

 

[raywaters11]

lmao i love this story
i hate homeless people

 

[Bender]

The only thing missing from the whole article is: DID HE DIE?

Actually, no he didn't. He dodged every one of those heat seeking suckers, did a flew flips, somersaulted and managed to pull off a few fake caps inbetween, before running off and jumping on to his trolly shouting 'one time!'

 

[S. Fourteen]

It was more than a half dozen officers. Lets just take the comfortable number of 8. Inglewood is always up to no good so that's two coppers per car - 4 cop cars showed up - makes sense.

That's roughly 6 bullets per officer. Sounds like a lot but it's really not.

 

[vg4030]

It was more than a half dozen officers. Lets just take the comfortable number of 8. Inglewood is always up to no good so that's two coppers per car - 4 cop cars showed up - makes sense.

That's roughly 6 bullets per officer. Sounds like a lot but it's really not.

Yeah thats what I was thinking, also we dont know what the bum did.. did he aim the (toy) gun at the cops to cause them to shoot?.. Lots of questions... I wonder if the tape will come out

 

[raywaters11]

fuck it
its what he gets
for being homeless