Protests going on outside of the LAPD pig quarters over the murder of that homeless man...
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abc7.com/news/man-killed-in-skid-row-officer-involved-shooting-identified/542316/Man killed in Skid Row officer-involved shooting identified
The man shot dead by Los Angeles police in Skid Row has been identified as Charley Saturmin Robinet, Eyewitness News has learned.
According to the FBI, the 39-year-old was convicted in 2000 for a bank robbery in Thousand Oaks. Robinet allegedly held up a Wells Fargo branch to steal money to pay for acting classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, according to the Associated Press.
He was released from prison on May 12, 2014. Under the terms of his release, Robinet was required to provide reports to his probation officer at the beginning of each month, Deputy U.S. Marshal Matthew Cordova said.
U.S. marshals say a federal warrant was issued for his arrest on Jan. 9 after Robinet, who carried a French passport, failed to check in with his probation officer in November, December and January.
The confrontation that ended in Robinet's death took place Sunday when police officers responded to a robbery call in the 500 block of San Pedro Street.
Police said they contacted the suspect and an altercation occurred. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said the man was shot after he grabbed an officer's holstered pistol during a scuffle.
Monday, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said two of the responding officers were wearing body cameras at the time of the incident. Beck, however, says the footage will not be released until the investigation is completed.
Witnesses to the shooting say Robinet, known as "Africa," was mentally ill and had been living on the streets for several months.
A 2005 court document notes that a state psychiatrist examined the suspect and determined that he had a "mental disorder or defect" but it was unclear if he received treatment.
The deadly confrontation was videotaped by passerby Anthony Blackburn and has sparked a firestorm on social media with many saying the incident was a case of excessive force and that officers murdered a mentally ill man.
On Tuesday, about 200 people marched from the scene of the shooting to LAPD headquarters. The protest marked another intense day following the shooting.
"This is modern day lynchings. We're not calling them killings no more. We're calling them lynchings," one demonstrator shouted through a bullhorn.
LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said a sergeant for the department was targeted Monday night, when someone tried to release his home address as an intimidation tactic.
Protesters said deadly force should not have been used in the incident and are demanding that the officers involved in the fatal shooting be prosecuted.
"Whether or not he reached for the gun, is it relevant? He didn't have the gun," said one demonstrator.
Inside LAPD headquarters, dozens of demonstrators lashed out at the department and its handling of the shooting during the weekly L.A. Police Commission meeting.
"Your intention was to ? this man. That's what this office's intention was and your intention is to cover it up," one man shouted.
Police Commission President Steve Soboroff assured the crowd that the shooting would be investigated thoroughly.
"I would encourage people not to rush to judgment. It isn't fair to anyone to rush to judgment," Soboroff said. "Let's not point fingers. Let's join hands," he added, drawing a few laughs and jeers from the crowd.
After the meeting, Beck responded to his department's critics.
"This is a limited group and this is not a universal opinion in the city of Los Angeles," Beck said.
Meanwhile, the LAPD and the mayor are asking the community to remain peaceful and not draw any conclusions until the investigation is complete.
"It's understandable that people are upset. It's a tragic situation when anybody loses their life in a situation like this. It's tragic for everybody involved, and I guarantee you that no officer in the Los Angeles Police Department wants to go out there and get involved in a shooting like this," Smith said.
ABC News and The Associated Press contributed to this report. -
losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/03/03/lapd-officers-victims-of-doxxing-in-wake-of-fatal-skid-row-shooting/LAPD Officers Victims Of ‘Doxxing’ In Wake Of Fatal Skid Row Shooting
After the fatal shooting of a homeless man on Skid Row, the LAPD confirms at least two members of the force are victims of what authorities called “doxxing.”
Someone posted the officers’ private information online, including names, addresses and details about their kids’ schools.
CBS2/KCAL9 is not reporting that information.
The LAPD would not confirm if the officers targeted were involved in Sunday’s fatal shooting at Union Rescue Mission after a struggle during which, officers say, the shooting victim went for one of their guns. -
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I really don't know the facts on this situation.Gonna have to look into this.Kinda late on this story.
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The facts are, 5 cops could not apprehend one (1) unarmed man without resorting to the use of deadly force.
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it's not the weapon that's the problem it's that overused excuse that for some reason people keep believingstringer bell wrote: » -
nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11412996Man shot by Los Angeles police identified as Cameroon native
LOS ANGELES (AP) " A homeless man who was shot to death by police during a confrontation over the weekend was identified under his true name " not the stolen French identity he had used for years.
Charly Keundeu Keunang, a native of Cameroon, was identified Thursday. He was listed as being indigent and homeless, and he died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office.
Keunang, 43, was known on the streets as "Africa." He was killed on Sunday by police officers answering a robbery report. Officers said he became combative, made a grab for the gun of a rookie policeman and was shot by three other officers.
The shooting was captured on video and prompted several protests.
Keunang's path to Skid Row, a rough area of Los Angeles where many homeless live, was marked by mistakes and miscommunication by three governments on three continents over nearly 20 years.
The problems began in the late 1990s when French officials gave him a passport under what turned out to be a stolen name " Charley Saturin Robinet. He came to the U.S., robbed a bank and then was convicted and imprisoned under the same false name.
U.S. immigration officials wanted to send him back to Cameroon, but that country never responded to requests to take him. So he was released from a halfway house last May, and U.S. probation officials lost track of him in November.
It took three failed monthly check-ins for a warrant to be issued on a probation violation, and it's unclear whether anyone actually looked for him. He apparently was living the entire time on Skid Row, roughly 50 square blocks of liquor stores, warehouses, charitable missions and a few modest businesses.
Many of the estimated 1,700 people who sleep each night on the sidewalks are mentally ill, like Keunang.
Peter Nunez, a former U.S. attorney in San Diego who is chairman of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C., said the case points to multiple failures by government.
He criticized France for not being more diligent in investigating the man's background before issuing a passport and U.S. authorities for not realizing he was a "fraud" before the end of his prison term and then not putting more effort into finding him once he disappeared.
"Shame on all of them," said Nunez, whose group advocates for stricter immigration policies and enforcement.
Axel Cruau, France's consul general in Los Angeles, said the system for checking backgrounds was vastly different when the man duped French officials.
"Let's remember 20 years ago we didn't have the same databases we have today, the same rules, we didn't have biometric design. It was before 9/11," he said.
Using the false name, the man was believed to be a French citizen in 2000 when convicted of robbing a Wells Fargo branch in Los Angeles and pistol-whipping an employee in what he told authorities was an effort to pay for acting classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. -
laist.com/2015/03/05/skid_row_abc_7_van.phpVideo: Skid Row Residents Force ABC 7 Van Out
Skid Row residents walking in front of an ABC 7 van, forcing it out of the area (Screengrab via YouTube)
It's just been four days since an onlooker captured on video LAPD officers scuffling with a homeless man in Skid Row before fatally shooting him. Since then, news camera crews have been filming in the area, and some Skid Row residents are less than enthused about it. One homeless man who confronted a news cameraman was even Tasered by police.
In a video posted by StreetWiseLA, a YouTube channel that covers the homeless and issues with LAPD, the day after the shooting, we see a group of people calmly walking toward an ABC 7 news van with their hands up in the air, trying to force the van out of the area. As they keep walking forward, the driver slowly backs up for the duration of the over 1-minute-long clip.
They're not the only TV news crew that faced blowback in the neighborhood. On Wednesday around noon, a Fox 11 camera crew went to Skid Row, and when they were in front of the Midnight Mission on 6th Street, a man reportedly snatched their camera and broke it.
Fox 11 reporter Phil Shuman recounted the experience in an article: "We were trying to calm him down as the crowd started yelling at us. He backed off, then grabbed the camera again, twisting off the viewfinder and destroying it."
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