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Title: Six Weeks Later, L.A. Sheriff's Department Admits They Killed an Innocent Man in Nighttime SWAT Raid
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Reason
URL Source: https://reason.com/blog/2016/08/10/ ... later-la-sheriffs-department-a
Published: Aug 10, 2016
Author: Eric Boehm
Post Date: 2016-08-11 06:01:00 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1397
Comments: 13
After six weeks of insisting the man killed in a pre-dawn raid was a suspect in a carjacking, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department this week reversed course and admitted they gunned down an innocent man. On July 28, the department was using armored vehicles and a SWAT team armed with assault weapons to search a neighborhood in Compton, Calif., for a man who had stolen a car and exchanged gunfire with police officers before going on the run. They found and arrested the suspect, but then received a 911 call from a resident of the neighborhood who reported seeing an unknown man lying in his front yard. The department responded in force. When the unknown man didn't respond to verbal commands, deputies set off flash bang grenades and fired rubber bullets at him. When he rose from the ground and allegedly ran towards the deputies, a deputy sitting in the turret of one of the heavily armored cars fired, killing Donnell Thompson. Thompson, a 27-year old black man, suffered from mental disabilities. He had nothing to do with the carjacking. He wasn't armed and had not committed a crime. Even so, the Sheriff's Department spent weeks saying they had reason to believe Thompson was a second suspect in the carjacking incident. After an internal investigation and facing pressure from Thompson's family, the department admitted their mistake this week. A statement issued by the Sheriff's Department on Tuesday said there was "no evidence that Mr. Thompson was in the carjacked vehicle, nor that he was involved in the assault on the deputies." At a press conference, Capt. Steve Katz called the incident a "terribly devastating event." According to the Los Angeles Times, the department conducted an internal review of the shooting after Thompson's family protested the shooting at a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meeting. His family described him as a "harmless man who had never been in legal trouble," and wanted charges filed against the officer who pulled the trigger, the paper reported. "I wouldn't treat an animal this bad," his sister Matrice Stanley told the board, according to the AP. "How is this justifiable?" Brian Dunn, an attorney representing the Thompson family, told the Huffington Post that the Sheriff's Department's response to the incident was inappropriate. "In a civilian neighborhood, they bring an urban assault vehicle," Dunn said. "The BearCat, it's like a tank. Their response to this situation was so aggressive. Their tactics were so aggressive." The department says an investigation into the shooting is still ongoing and the officer who killed Thompson—who has not been identified publicly—has been reassigned to non-field duty. Thompson is not the first person to be killed by a misinformed SWAT team or overly aggressive police tactics. Sadly, but without a doubt, he also won't be the last. 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Hell, YEA! STAND DOWN - LEO!! Just let the stupid ass "FUCKERS" kill each other off. Don't get in their way ... ... "BLUE LIVES MATTER" ...
Hell, YEA! And once again, LF's leading cheerleader for the police state chimes in with more worship of the State. You and your repulsive ilk sicken me and all freedom-loving Americans. I sincerely hope that you are on the receiving end of a wrong-house SWAT raid at oh-dark-thirty sometime in the near future. You'd kneel down and lick the boots of the cops who fucked up and busted down your door. *** I guess you missed the part where he was innocent. After an internal investigation and facing pressure from Thompson's family, the department admitted their mistake this week. A statement issued by the Sheriff's Department on Tuesday said there was "no evidence that Mr. Thompson was in the carjacked vehicle, nor that he was involved in the assault on the deputies." You're a real piece of shit. See what happens when you make carjacking illegal? See? An innocent man gunned down, all because of the War on Carjacking. So I say make carjacking legal.
Execute the cop who shot him as a murderer. Send the cops there assisting to prison for 30 years as accessories to murder. Lather, rinse, repeat until the police stop killing people.
https://local.nixle.com/alert/5699772/?sub_id=1000000468 Tuesday August 9th, 2016 : 08:00 a.m. PDT *Media Availability* Regarding Compton Deputy-Involved Shooting Which Occurred on Thursday, July 28, 2016 Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators are continuing to conduct an exhaustive review of the sequence of events that unfolded in the hours after a vehicle carjacked in the city of Los Angeles was driven to Compton. Deputies in pursuit of the vehicle were fired upon by the driver, who subsequently crashed the vehicle and fled into a neighborhood. This review includes the sequence of events that led up to the deputy-involved shooting of 27-year old Donnell Thompson which took place after our deputies had been assaulted. The investigation to this point has included: A special session of the Department’s Critical Incident Review Committee was also held on Monday, August 8th. The Critical Incident Review is comprised of Assistant Sheriffs, Chiefs, commanders, personnel from risk management and training, the chairperson of the Executive Force Review Committee, and county counsel. The Inspector General and the Sheriff’s Constitutional Policing Advisors were also present. The primary objective of this investigation has been to determine whether Mr. Thompson had a role in the carjacking incident and the assault on our deputies. We have determined that there is no evidence that Mr. Thompson was in the carjacked vehicle, nor that he was involved in the assault on the deputies. Deputies encountered Mr. Thompson shortly after the carjacking suspect who had opened fire on our deputies was arrested. Deputies were alerted to Mr. Thompson by a neighborhood resident who discovered him lying in his yard and called 911. This was contemporaneous to the final stages of the search for and arrest of the carjacking suspect in the same neighborhood. Mr. Thompson was lying in a position that concealed one of his hands from view and was unresponsive to numerous commands. There was a concern that he may be armed, and may be connected to the carjacking suspect who had fired on the deputies. Various means to gain a response from him were attempted, and when he aroused and stood up, he charged at the deputies who had come to assist the resident. One deputy fired at Mr. Thompson, believing him to be armed. The deputy who fired at Mr. Thompson has been reassigned to non-field duties. Our administrative review of this case continues, and our investigation file will ultimately be submitted to the District Attorney. Multiple oversight entities are involved in every deputy-involved shooting, including investigators from the District Attorney’s office and the Office of the Inspector General, who reports to the Board of Supervisors. Captain Steve Katz, Homicide Bureau, will be available at the Hall of Justice for media interviews between 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM. The interviews will be coordinated through Nicole Nishida @ (323) 810-1973. Forwarded by: Sheriff’s Information Bureau – Newsroom Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Hall of Justice - First floor 211 W. Temple St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 213-229-1700 Website LASD HQ: http://www.lasd.org
Their is a reason the scum bags in blue are being targeted. Why just today footage was released of a woman in jail who lost her son while she was incarcerated. She put up pictures of her boy on her bunk amd cried over her loss. So the new mexico deputies, tazed her, maced her, and beat her till she puked necause she wouldnt stop crying. One officer even said just bend her wrist back till she stops crying. And they smiled for.their body cams as they did this to a greiveing woman lamenting the loss of her son.... Their is a.reason the pigs are being targeted, they deserve to die.
Yep, and that's why with the capricious, nonchalant attitude approach of killing unarmed civilians, it's no wonder we keep hearing rising cases of people taking to the streets of the attitude in return "Blue Lives Don't Matter". If an unarmed citizen's life has no meaning to the Blue hoods, then hey, its open season. Let's Go Crazy.
SWAT builds mobile armored robots with bombs for pussy keyboard warrior fuckstains like you. lol I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
SWAT doesn't "build" anything freak-show. I don't really care who "builds" the motorized bomb that kills Titorite2... but I'll buy the officer a beer that drives it up his barricaded nose... and Christopher Dorners his mentally ill ass.
I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
Man. you really are insane. Typical cop mentality - "If you're not cop, you're little people". Lather, rinse, repeat until the police stop killing people. Works for me. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. Well, in your case... dysfuntional anarchist faggot & drug addict loving paultard asshole little people. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
"In a civilian neighborhood, they bring an urban assault vehicle," Dunn said. "The BearCat, it's like a tank. Their response to this situation was so aggressive. Their tactics were so aggressive."
#2. To: Gatlin (#1)
"In a civilian neighborhood, they bring an urban assault vehicle," Dunn said. "The BearCat, it's like a tank. Their response to this situation was so aggressive. Their tactics were so aggressive."
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
#4. To: Deckard (#0)
#5. To: Deckard, Gatlin, misterwhite, Vicomte13 (#0)
After six weeks of insisting the man killed in a pre-dawn raid was a suspect in a carjacking, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department this week reversed course and admitted they gunned down an innocent man.
LASD - Los Angeles County Sheriffs Dept Information Bureau (SIB)
#6. To: Deckard (#0)
#7. To: Gatlin (#1)
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#8. To: Titorite2 (#6)
Their is a.reason the pigs are being targeted, they deserve to die.
#9. To: GrandIsland, Titorite2 (#8)
SWAT builds
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#10. To: Deckard (#9)
#11. To: GrandIsland, Titorite2 (#10)
I don't really care who "builds" the motorized bomb that kills Titorite2..
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
#12. To: Vicomte13 (#4)
Execute the cop who shot him as a murderer. Send the cops there assisting to prison for 30 years as accessories to murder.
#13. To: Deckard (#11)
Typical cop mentality - "If you're not cop, you're little people".
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