The suspect was drunk, threatening passersby with a knife and these same people who are rioting are the ones who called in the cops.
Hate New York City
It’s cold and it’s damp
And all the people dressed like monkeys
Let’s leave Chicago to the Eskimos
That town’s a little bit too rugged
For you and me you bad girl
Rollin’ down the Imperial Highway
With a big nasty redhead at my side
Santa Ana winds blowin’ hot from the north
And we as born to ride
Roll down the window put down the top
Crank up the Beach Boys baby
Don’t let the music stop
We’re gonna ride it till we just can’t ride it no more
>From the South Bay to the Valley
>From the West Side to the East Side
Everybody’s very happy
‘Cause the sun is shining all the time
Looks like another perfect day
I love L.A. (We love it)
I love L.A. (We love it)
Look at that mountain
Look at those trees
Look at that bum over there, man
He’s down on his knees
Look at these women
There ain’t nothin’ like ‘em nowhere
Century Boulevard (We love it)
Victory Boulevard (We love it)
Santa Monica Boulevard (We love it)
Sixth Street (We love it, we love it)
I love L.A.
I love L.A.
(We love it)
I love living in the country.
“Kelly Flor, a self-described community activist, told KNBC News Jamines could not understand what the police were telling him at the time of the incident.”
“He could not speak English, so he could not understand what the officer was saying,” she said, “and after that the officer proceeded in shooting him twice in the head.”
Um...Kelly? When an officer has a gun pointed at you, I think it’s a pretty universal concept that you don’t raise your knife and make an aggressive move towards him.
There are lots of ways to take a person down without killing them.Cops are on a killing spree all over the nation if you ask me.
Win/Win situation.
Macarthur Park is melting in the dark.
All the sweet green icing melting down.
I hold their concern for the drunken knife wielder suspect. They’re probably looking for an excuse to go looting. We’re about due for one of those.
When you advance toward an armed cop with a weapon in your hand you cease to be a human being. You are a threat to be eliminated. At least he went out like a bad*ss. Songs will be sung celebrating his machismo, girls will shed tears over his likeness, toasts will be raised in his honor. Simone!
I would suggest that this “immigrant” never learned that one does not bring a knife to a gunfight - especially with the cops!
Illegal Alien ?
That area has been one of the most violent in LA ever since Jimmy Carter’s Marielitos washed up there in the 70’s.
Why would an LAPD officer ever, ever, respond to a hot call in Rampart when all he gets for his trouble is this?
“...leading one of the officers to fire at the suspect”
Good, that’s what you do when a knife wielding drunk advances on you.
The people attacking the cops here are hilarious. As far as I’m concerned, if you advance on someone with a knife, sober or drunk, then you just gave anyone around you permission to eliminate the threat.
I wonder how many Guatemalans were brutalized/murdered by the truly corrupt Guatemalan government/cops while our Guatemalan “immigrant” friends rioted here. Since this is obviously a hot issue with Guatemalans, it would seem like there should be at least one anti-police/gov riot per day in Guatemala. Or they’re whining, ungrateful hypocrites. Whatever. It’s definitely one or the other.
LA is a sanctuary city--they deserve what they're getting.
I used to work on Wilshire Blvd. near MacArthur Park from about 1967 to 1980. There was a steak house, Edwards, on Alvarado Blvd. near the park and we used to walk over to eat at lunch. At first most people that lived in the area were elderly and it was safe. But later the area started to turn Hispanic and it became unsafe to walk around the area even in broad day light. Eventually Edwards had to close because the area turned so bad no body would go there at night. Obviously the area has gone further down hill.
As if the LAPD could shoot that well.