For the record I live in Inglewood, so this most recent racially charged murder by the police hits very close to home for me. I have come home from work many a nights with the streets blocked off with yellow tape and cops standing around with guns drawn.
A homeless man, allegedly holding a phony gun, was shot and killed by Inglewood police in the fourth shooting involving an Inglewood officer in as many months.
Officers responded to a report of a man with a gun in the 400 block of Market Street, near Hillcrest Boulevard, at 1:47 p.m. Sunday, said Inglewood police Lt. Gabriela Garcia. The officers found two men, one of whom had what they said appeared to be a chrome handgun tucked into his waistband. Everything looks like a gun to the fuckin pigs...wallets, bottles of soda, grocery's, family protrait's, anything that a man of black and brown skin is holding is potentially a gun to them and grounds for immediate murder without further investigation or fear of consequence.
The man then allegedly reached for his waistband and was shot, witnesses say as many as nine times. Officers later determined the apparent gun was a toy (of course).
A person in a passing vehicle was also grazed by one of the reckless police officers bullets, but the person's injury was not considered serious officers say.
The police in Inglewood are completely out of control, they have murdered four citizens in as many months and a stop in their reckless behavior seems unlikely. Here's a rundown of the most recent incidents of police shooting Inglewood.
- Two Inglewood officers involved in a May 11 shooting in which 19-year-old Michael Byoune was killed and two others wounded at a restaurant near Crenshaw Boulevard and 85th Street were returned to active duty by Inglewood Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks.
- On July 1, Ruben Walton Ortega, a 23-year-old alleged gang member, was fatally shot by Inglewood police.
- Kevin Wicks, 38, (a 19-year postal worker) was shot to death by Inglewood police Officer Brian Ragan at about 12:20 a.m. July 21 after four officers went to his door in response to a report of an argument involving a man and two women. But relatives and community activists said officers responded to the wrong apartment and that if Wicks was holding a gun, it was likely only for his safety since he lived in a dangerous neighborhood and was responding to a knock on his door around midnight. Adding to the outrage over Wicks' death was the fact that Ragan, a five-year department veteran, was one of the two officers involved in the May 11 shooting of Byoune.
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