A homeless man was fatally shot by three Los Angeles police officers during a struggle on Skid Row last week because “he was combative and trying to snatch an officer’s gun and turn it on him”. Charley Leundeu Keunang, 43, who died from multiple gunshot wounds, was a native of Cameroon and was known on the Los Angeles streets as Africa. He was battling drug addiction, lived in a tent, and often read the Bible. The shooting was captured on video and prompted several protests.
The video footage shows cops forcing Charley to the ground and using a Taser gun on him. The footage doesn’t show the brawl clearly but five gunshots can be heard. Stunned onlookers claimed that the three cops fired multiple shots at the hapless man who wasn’t trying to shoot them with one of their own guns as the police maintained; they accused the police of unjustly killing an unarmed man.
The LAPD has launched an investigation, amid protests which saw people taking to the streets wearing T-shirts stating Black Lives Matter.
According to The Telegraph, Charley was using a fake identity, stolen from a Frenchman Charley Saturmin Robinet in the 1990s. He acquired a French passport and moved to Los Angeles to try and make a career in Hollywood. Interestingly, he started taking acting classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse but struggled to pay the fees. Since he needed the cash to fulfil his dream, he tried to rob a bank in the LA suburb of Thousand Oaks in 2000. He was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released last year in May only to be killed in this cruel manner few months later.
Roses were placed over a tent, blankets and clothing belonging to Charley to pay tribute to the homeless man.
Hah , y yo vengo siendo la victima *pegan juerte!*
The LAPD are the Problem. Its the same thing as in NYC, complaints and crime would both be down; that is if there wwere no cops!
Perhaps we should give less funding to the thugs in uniform!
I dont understand why the american people arent killing these gestapo fuckers where they stand. This is insane . This would be my sign to sloot cops on sight. Wake the Fuck up America! !!
The man took the cops gun dummy. ..you stand there when a mental person has your gun. You want cops dead. You bettet stay in doors low life
Go on and believe what the media is telling you like a sheep that you are.
I’m not justifying this shooting in anyway but the shooting itself is a clean shoot. Although the officer discharged his/her weapon way too many times and after they shot him, the officers stood around like fools and did not try to help the man they just shot. I’m going to tell you why it is a clean shooting though. If you listen very closely to the audio of the video you can hear what sounds like the officer saying “hes got my gun, hes got my gun”. If the homeless man did in fact try to take the officers weapon(I’m not saying he did) then it would be a justified shooting. I do not agree with the tactics of the police or how they handle mentally disabled people or just the public in general.
My first impression too. But if that happened: still a major fault of that cop. There are procedures to arrest someone. (let me see your hands, lay down, whatever) Dunno. Still looks very cowardly and not professional.
But i’m from Europe. Don’t know laws, procedures etc over there.
What’s the fucking discussion KILL THEM ALL, TORTURE THEM, ESPECIALLY THE ONE WHO SHOT THE GUY. Dude, those are no Police Officers or whatever, they are bastards, seriously.
FUCK DA POLICE