Suspect Tries To Run Over Cop, Cop Fires Shots, Suspect Then Runs Into Store, Changes Clothes And Escapes On February 9, 2021, around 4:30 p.m., uniformed Southeast Patrol Division officers ...Suspect Tries To Run Over Cop, Cop Fires Shots, Suspect Then Runs Into Store, Changes Clothes And Escapes On February 9, 2021, around 4:30 p.m., uniformed Southeast Patrol Division officers conducted a traffic stop for an equipment violation in the northwest parking lot at Manchester Avenue and Figueroa Street. The driver officer stopped their patrol vehicle adjacent to the driver's door of the suspect's vehicle. The officers exited their vehicle and began giving commands to the driver. The driver officer ordered the suspect to turn off the ignition, however, the driver did not comply. The driver accelerated the vehicle towards the partner officer who was standing at the front of the vehicle. The partner officer ordered the suspect to stop, however, the suspect continued driving towards him and an Officer-Involved Shooting occurred. The suspect fled the scene in his vehicle. An air unit followed the suspect's vehicle to a shopping center parking lot at Imperial Highway and Crenshaw Boulevard in the city of Inglewood. The suspect exited the vehicle and entered a nearby store. Officers searched the store, however, they were unable to locate the suspect. A review of surveillance video showed that the suspect changed clothing inside the store and escaped prior to the search. No officers were injured during the incident and it does not appear the suspect was struck by gunfire.
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He wasn't parked illegally, he was in the car with the engine running and the car in drive. That is not parked, it is standing, and it is only illegal if he was blocking someone, in which case the cop would have been obligated to have him move his car.
Note the report says he was stopped for an "equipment violation," i.e. window tint. The window tint is one of those excuses California hands to cops to abuse its citizens, they require 70% transmission while most states are only 35%. It gives almost every stop a plausible reason, and the comment "you got dark windows" is a throw-away line. A good lawyer would subpoena the cop's body cam for a month prior to the incident and could probably show that he said it too often without actually testing the darkness of the tint or issuing citations and establish that window tint was a pretext. This video makes it clear it was not the reason for this stop. The cop standing in front of a running vehicle exhibited very poor judgement, and even worse marksmanship. In a jury trial he would walk with a decent lawyer. All he has to do is claim the cops obviously stopped him for DWB (Driving While Black), said what he was doing was illegal when it wasn't, and he was therefore fearful, his attention was on the cop he was talking to, and he did not see the cop in front of the car when he pulled away.
Firing so many shots without regard for other people in the area is ridiculous when no injury actually occurred. It also pisses me off that dispatch is told "shots fired" when that implies that the subject fired the shots and not the idiot with the badge. These cops are not good at their job, and the reason I posted this is that they are so bad that they actually represent a threat to my, a white man, civil rights.
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Black criminal? How come? They’re always peaceful law abiding citizens... Not this universe.
He wasn't parked illegally, he was in the car with the engine running and the car in drive. That is not parked, it is standing, and it is only illegal if he was blocking someone, in which case the cop would have been obligated to have him move his car.
Note the report says he was stopped for an "equipment violation," i.e. window tint. The window tint is one of those excuses California hands to cops to abuse its citizens, they require 70% transmission while most states are only 35%. It gives almost every stop a plausible reason, and the comment "you got dark windows" is a throw-away line. A good lawyer would subpoena the cop's body cam for a month prior to the incident and could probably show that he said it too often without actually testing the darkness of the tint or issuing citations and establish that window tint was a pretext. This video makes it clear it was not the reason for this stop. The cop standing in front of a running vehicle exhibited very poor judgement, and even worse marksmanship. In a jury trial he would walk with a decent lawyer. All he has to do is claim the cops obviously stopped him for DWB (Driving While Black), said what he was doing was illegal when it wasn't, and he was therefore fearful, his attention was on the cop he was talking to, and he did not see the cop in front of the car when he pulled away.
Firing so many shots without regard for other people in the area is ridiculous when no injury actually occurred. It also pisses me off that dispatch is told "shots fired" when that implies that the subject fired the shots and not the idiot with the badge. These cops are not good at their job, and the reason I posted this is that they are so bad that they actually represent a threat to my, a white man, civil rights.