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Friday, 20 January 2017

Blind man shot dead by 5 police officers in California

5 police officers were recorded by a CCTV camera as they shot dead a blind, mentally ill man. 47-year-old James Hall, who apart from being blind also suffers from schizoaffective disorder, was killed in a convenience store in Fontana, California, and his family has released the CCTV footage of the incident to support a lawsuit which they filed against the Fontana police department.
The police officers had earlier claimed that Hall was armed with a knife and a rock and was coming towards them which was why they shot him, however, this CCTV footage has shown their claims to be false. Contrary to their claims, the footage does not show Hall with any weapons on Nov. 22, 2015, the day he was killed.
Hall's Family see the death of Hall as an execution and believe the police escalated the situation unnecessarily when they could have handled it better.

Speaking for Hall's family, Mark Geragos said,‘It’s a disturbing video indictment of the officers. The video puts the lie to the obviously falsified police account of what happened. In fact, this was an execution."

The lawsuit mentioned 12 officers and said authorities acted ‘in reckless and callous disregard for the constitutional rights’.

See the video below or here;

12 comments:

NaijaDeltaBabe said...

Hmmmm


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Unknown said...

dey wasted dis man out of nothin...Rip

Oghenetega said...

Thank God they are caught in the act by Camera...
Carlous & wicked set of ppl..
They will pay thru their Nose..

Anonymous said...

Why didn't they taze him instead?sometimes living in this America scares the shit outa me sef.How will a blind man charge towards you with a knife and rock??Only in America.

Anonymous said...

Damn! This is when having waaayy too much resources can be bad. 11 cops and 1 k-9 and how ever many guns to neutralize 1 man??! Even if he had a knife and a rock like they claimed, the worst they could do was tase him and capture him alive! Smh!

Unknown said...

Very sad indeed

Unknown said...

Hmmmm so that he will not kill them

Unknown said...

THAT'S NOT FAIR NOW





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Kate said...

Terrible

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