A series of officer-involved shootings has made Anchorage the latest in a long list of American cities to wrestle with how police use force.
Easter Leafa was sitting under a blanket on her balcony with a knife when Anchorage police arrived, responding to a call for help from her family. Instead of showing her hands as told, they said, the 16-year-old girl stood and approached them with the blade. Two officers opened fire simultaneously, one with a less-lethal foam projectile and the other with bullets, killing her two days before Easter was to start her junior year of high school.
of Alaska, told the Associated Press that some in the Pacific Islander community will think twice before they call Anchorage police for help. “They should be ready for these kinds of circumstances,” she said. 'They knew what they signed up for, whereas we as a community are just in our living rooms, just trying to live our lives. We don’t expect to call for help and then that be the last call we ever make.
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