We had an incident downtown today where an altercation turned into a killing, then when the police were trying to apprehend the armed suspect (walking through downtown), he shot himself. The police immediately began CPR, to no avail.
As this story went out on social media, a bunch of people decided that it was time to do some damage and proceeded to attack/destroy/loot stores.
Of course the fact that looters are getting a free pass had nothing to do with it.
FYI, the police releasing the video of the guy shooting him self in the hopes that it would help. Apparently these folks don’t want to get facts get in the way of some good looting.
I want to reiterate something about the release of the video and about the choice to loot anyway.
Virtually the entire interaction was recorded on multiple video cameras. The suspect can be seen walking up to a group of people on the sidewalk carrying a gun, which scares the innocent bystanders. They crowd flees and the police officers begin to approach the suspect, who is still carrying a gun. We watch the suspect place the gun under his chin, and the video (thankfully not broadcast, but still available) shows him shooting himself. Then we pick up with police officers rushing to try to save his life.
We have video if multiple black "community organizers" pleading with the looters to go home because the suspect shot himself, and we have reporters who showed the entire video to looters, and the looters chose to believe the narrative, rather than their own eyes.
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They’re looting Ruth’s Criss. Chief Arredondo says they won’t “tolerate”, this behavior at the same time we’re seeing live video of the police tolerating extensive looting.
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