...The cyclist, 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, (click here) was shot more than 20 times in the back on Monday afternoon after two sheriff's deputies tried to stop him for a bicycle code violation, said Benjamin Crump, who said he is representing Kizzee's family.
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department said Kizzee, whose identity was confirmed by the county medical examiner-coroner, was shot fewer than 20 times after dropping a handgun he had been carrying and punching one of the deputies.
The killing renewed protests in the city by demonstrators angered at deadly violence against Black people by police. Such protests have become a near daily occurrence around the country after George Floyd, a Black man, was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer in May.
"You don't kill any race but us, and it don't make any sense," Fletcher Fair, Dijon Kizzee's aunt, told reporters at the site of the shooting on Tuesday where activists called for an independent investigation by California's attorney general. "Why us?"...
The shooting is not justified. The gun was on the ground and Dijon was not firing the gun at police. Was the gun loaded? He could have been carrying an empty gun.
What impresses me is the number of bullets Dijon was shot with, since when do police carry a high capacity magazines with 20 bullets?
Whether it is Mr. Blake or Dijon Kizzee, the police are emptying their magazines? That, to me, spells a profound lack of skills in using the gun. I can empty a gun magazine without training or practice, although the recoil might be worrisome in AIMING the gun. Emptying a gun of it's bullets is not good police work.
..."Our suspect (click here) was holding some items of clothing in his hands, punched one of the officers in the face and then dropped the items in his hands," Lt. Brandon Dean said. "The deputies noticed that inside the clothing items that he dropped was a black semiautomatic handgun, at which time a deputy-involved shooting occurred."...
Punching a police officer is serious, but, it seems as though they are losing their perspective when it comes to firing their guns. Seriously. I don't think they are emotionally stable if they are emptying their magazines into a person. Where are they getting the permission to simply unload their magazines into a person? How is it a 17 year old with a military style weapon walk through the streets with impunity while a black bicyclist is deemed a threat while owning a gun so police are motivated to the point of killing him?
It doesn't make sense anymore. Where is the sincere fear of a black man come from that unleashes this degree of fury?
