This is not a video game.
This is the problem most people have with the police force. Rational people understand that we do need some sort of policing in our country so lawlessness doesn’t run wild, but the problem is many in law enforcement are corrupt, and a good number of them aren’t properly trained.
When you basically have permission to shoot and kill at your leisure, you need to be the best of the best. You need to be the type of person that people can trust. You need to be Captain F*cking America if you are given a badge, but instead, we are giving high school dropouts with shady pasts a gun and telling them to police the streets.
That is how something like this happens.
A teenage girl at a Burlington clothing store was killed by a bullet from an LAPD officer during a chaotic shooting Thursday that killed the alleged suspect and wounded another person.
Preliminary information released by the Los Angeles Police Department indicated that police rounds penetrated a wall, killing the 14-year old in a dressing room.
At the store, authorities encountered a man they said was assaulting someone, and they opened fire, according to preliminary findings by the Police Department. It was not immediately clear what prompted officers to shoot.
The man was taken into custody and died at the scene, said LAPD Officer Drake Madison, a spokesperson for the department.
During a search for additional suspects or victims, an officer found the slain girl who had been struck by a round fired by the responding officers, LAPD officials said in a Twitter post.
According to reports, the man did not have a gun or knife but a bike lock style chain. The LAPD hasn’t explained why they would open fire on someone who couldn’t have posed a threat to their lives. One man with a bike lock could not have beat the entire LAPD, and now a 14-year-old girl is dead because of their reckless actions.
The officer who took the shot needs to be arrested immediately. If a civilian had shot at a man with a bike lock and shot and killed a teenage they would be charged.
This is disgusting by the LAPD.
There is apparently body cam footage, we will see how transparent they are with it.
Flip the page for video of the crime scene and more on the shooting.
