An angry crowd
gathered in South Los Angeles Saturday after police officers shot and killed a
man at the end of a car chase.
Police Sgt.
Barry Montgomery said officers tried to pull over a car with paper plates, a
possible sign the vehicle had been stolen. The driver refused to stop and
police began a pursuit.
He said the
passenger got out of the car at some point and ran into the back of a house, where
he was shot. The driver fled the scene and remained on the loose.
The shooting
drew several dozen people to the scene. A small group of protesters gathered
behind yellow police tape blocking the shooting scene Saturday night, shouting
at officers in riot helmets.
Relatives of
the dead man identified him as 18-year-old Carnell Snell Jr., and they told the
Los Angeles Times he was killed on the same street where he lived.
Trenell Snell,
17, said she was outside with friends when she saw her older brother running
from police. She said she started running too, and that she hit the ground when
she heard gunfire.
When she got
up, her brother was on the ground, handcuffed, she said.
"At the
end of the day, the cops came and shot my brother," she said. "Killed
my brother."
Snell's mother
told reporters she asked authorities to let her see the dead man to confirm
whether he is her son, but they wouldn't allow her to do so.
Local activisit
Earl Ofari Hutchinson called upon LAPD officials and the Police Commission to
"conduct an intense review of department policies on the use of deadly
force."
"This is
a critical point in relations between the police and South L.A. residents given
the rising incidences of deadly force in suspect and civilian encounters,"
he said.
The
demonstration is the latest sparked by a series of fatal shootings of black men
by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Charlotte, North Carolina. This past week, an
unarmed black man was fatally shot by police in the San Diego suburb of El
Cajon, triggering days of angry, sometimes unruly, protests.
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