Excessive force???
Posted on 12/09/2003 4:32:59 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
Chinese Americans are accusing San Francisco police of unecessarily shooting and critically wounding a Chinese immigrant man holding a pair of scissors on a Chinatown fire escape, according to reports in the Chinese language dailies, the World Journal and Sing Tao Daily.
The parents of Xilao Wu, 33, said he was mentally handicapped and lived with them at an apartment building on Commercial Street in San Francisco's Chinatown. On Nov. 18., after an argument between Wu and his parents, Wu locked himself in the apartment. His parents called police for assistance. Two police officers arrived. One reportedly spoke Cantonese, and the other officer was Asian American. Wu refused to let the police officers in. It is unclear in the reports whether the officers were able to communicate with the man in Chinese. When the police heard Wu turn on a gas burner and smelled gas in the room, they broke into the apartment. There was an exchange between Wu and the police. Wu, holding a pair of scissors on the fire escape, was then shot in the stomach by one of the officers. His parents were aggrieved over the critical wound and questioned its necessity.
A passerby quoted in the Sing Tao Daily said they saw Wu, and it appeared as if he was intending to kill himself by jumping off the fire escape. The passerby doubted the police had to fire at Wu. He also questioned the officer's decision to fire at Wu's stomach instead of his limbs.
On Nov. 18, the San Francisco police announced that Wu would face charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
Mabel Teng, San Francisco Assessor, said that the incident shows the poor communication that exists between the SFPD and the immigrant community. Teng believed that Wu’s parents called the police to solicit help and the outcome is very regretful.
Excessive force???
Those complaining...should return to the land of their language...or LEARN ENGLISH...
The madness that led this nation to permanently accommodate non-English speakers has resulted in a modern tower of Babel...
The second result, it in creating a subculture lower class of folks stuck in dead end jobs.....
This is NOT preserving "one's culture"...this is being stupid...
Semper Fi
Probably. Remember, the kid in that famous picture escaped unharmed, while we seem to have a few police departments around who regard their jurisdictions as free-fire zones.
from the information in the article, it would seem to be a good fit...
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