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By Reuters
LOS ANGELES – A black man who was arrested on his motorcycle for an alleged “vehicle code” violation fired through two Los Angeles sheriff’s officers, who fired 15 to 20 shots after the guy hit an officer and dropped a gun to the ground.announced on Tuesday.
A semi-automatic pistol fell from a pack of clothing that the man, known as Dijon Kizzee, 29, had grabbed and released when he punched an officer in the face, Said Lieutenant Brandon Dean, a Spokesman for Los Angeles.County Sheriff’s Department.
Dean said the two officials opened the chimney when Kizzee made “a gun-lifting move.”
“If the gun was in his hand, if he was pointing it out, I don’t have the main points because we haven’t interviewed the genuine MPs who were still there,” Dean said.
The first news of Monday afternoon’s shooting lured dozens of demonstrators to the Westmont network scene on the outskirts of south Los Angeles, fitting at the most recent flash point in a summer of protests against African-Americans killed by police.
“You’re killing any race other than ours, and that doesn’t make sense,” Kizzee’s aunt Fletcher Fair told reporters at the filming scene on Tuesday, where activists called for an independent investigation through the attorney general.California.
A protest march organized Tuesday night through local activists from the Community Police Control Coalition.
Prominent civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, who decided to set up Kizzee’s family, posted on Twitter: “They say he ran, dropped clothes and a gun.He didn’t pick her up, but the cops shot her in the back more than 20.”times at that time. I left it for hours.”
A neighbor who said she saw the fight and the shooting that followed from her home across the street from the level told Reuters on Tuesday that she had never noticed Kizzee throwing a punch, had never noticed a gun and that he was “not a threat…”
He left Roquemore, 31, said the two agents continued to shoot Kizzee even when he was motionless, face down on the ground.
“I saw him go from life to death, to death,” Roquemore said in a telephone interview.Roquemore, who is home the day to oversee her 6-year-old’s online classes, said she was interviewed through investigators.
Dean told Reuters that the combined agents fired a total of 15 to 20 shots.He said Kizzee had suffered several injuries to the top of his torso, but that he would not know the number of bullets that hit him until an autopsy was performed..
The two officials involved have been ignored for the time being, he said.
According to Dean, the pre-shooting occasions began when officers saw a man, later known as Kizzee, riding a bicycle “in violation of the vehicle code” and attempted to arrest him.
Kizzee jumped off his motorcycle and fled on foot, before the two officers followed him at close range, where the fatal encounter took place.
In Roquemore’s event edition, she said she saw Kizzee and one of the officers “fighting” in the clothing package before she fell to the ground.
At that moment, he said, Kizzee raised his hands in the air and shouted, “I have nothing.What do you want?” Before turning around to escape. He said an officer fired a Taser into Kizzee’s legs and the two officers shot him when he turned to them.
Dean denied that officials had ever deployed a Taser and did not provide any explanation of the accounts.
Dean said he did not know which vehicle code Kizzee was suspected of having violated. He told reporters Monday: “It is not unusual for MPs to stop their bicycles. They will have to abide by the same road regulations as a vehicle.”
(Information through Lucy Nicholson and Steve Gorman; Additional information through Jonathan Allen in New York and Heather Timmons in Washington; Edited through Leslie Adler)
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