USA: new controversy after a deadly altercation between a homeless and police


According to several media California, the Los Angeles Police reportedly killed yesterday homeless in the poor neighborhood of Skid Row, near the city center.


The images show a man very agitated face of police who are trying to master it. We hear screaming "loose the gun" before any more shots ring out and bystanders do not call for help.


The police official was keen to clarify: "during the altercation, there has been the use of at least one weapon, a taser. However, at present, we still do not know if the taser hit the suspect. Then the fight continued and there has been a shooting by a police officer. "


Shortly after the shooting, the man was pronounced dead in a hospital where he was taken.


According to the unidentified witness, "about five police officers held the ground. He managed to get up. They returned to the ground and they hit him while he was down. Then I heard a shot. I looked down the street and saw three shots on the man lying on the ground. "


This new drama comes after several cases of blacks killed by white police officers to Ferguson and New York. Cases that have reignited the debate about racism in the police and the fairness of the American judicial system and caused the end of 2014 demonstrations.






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