Police killed Jason Maccani as he held a fork, one of many cases of confused Los Angeles officers rushing to use lethal force

The first report from the Los Angeles police department about the killing of Jason Maccani on 3 February immediately drew scrutiny: an officer had fatally shot a man who had been “armed with a stick” and threatening people in a building on Skid Row, the department said.

LAPD’s update a day later raised new concerns: the 36-year-old Maccani hadn’t been holding any weapon, but rather a “white plastic fork”.

Body-camera footage released two weeks later raised even further questions about LAPD’s shifting narrative. The footage showed Maccani alone walking out of a unit into the building hallway, not threatening anyone, when seven officers approached with weapons drawn. The officer who fired the fatal shot opened fire within roughly 15 seconds of seeing him.

  • @Kyrrrr
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    313 months ago

    It’s not “to protect and serve”

    It’s “to intimidate and control”

    • ZephyrXero
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      93 months ago

      Read it as “to serve and protect the rich and powerful”, and then it starts to make sense

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        Or “protect and serve their egos”. Implies both their own egos and those of the higher class