Protesters called for the release of body camera footage of a deadly police shooting after LAPD Chief Michel Moore suggested that the man was unarmed at the time of the encounter
“Victor Valencia was houseless and apparently struggled with mental health issues,” said Adam Smith, an organizer with White People 4 Black Lives. “Should being poor and sick in Los Angeles be a death sentence?”
The rally followed a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting Tuesday during which Moore suggested that Valencia was unarmed at the time of the shooting.According to Moore, officers received a radio call reporting a man with a gun in the area of South Sepulveda and South Venice boulevards about 12:45 p.m. Saturday.
A field supervisor assigned to the LAPD’s Pacific Patrol Division was in the area and responded to the call. When he arrived, the supervisor saw a man later identified as Valencia pointing what he believed to be a handgun at him, Moore said. The supervisor fired an unknown number of rounds, striking Valencia, who was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The supervisor’s name has not been released.
The activists are calling on the LAPD to release the transcript of the 911 call reporting a man with a gun, the body camera footage of the shooting and the name of the officer involved. They also want police to produce photos of the bicycle part that prompted the encounter., video from “critical incidents” involving the police automatically become public within 45 days after they occur, but the activists are calling for the LAPD to release the footage immediately.
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