A woman records a 5-minute
long video that shows several armed police with their guns trained on an
unarmed young black man in Hawthorne, California. Terrified he’ll be shot, she
weeps and pleads, but keeps recording.
In the video, Instagram
user Blueasdasky, repeatedly asks why so many police have surround the unarmed
young man who they have kneeling with his hands up and behind his back, on a
busy street corner.
She begins to cry, and
pleads for someone to help the young man as she fears he may be shot by police.
“Don’t move!”
A police officer who
appears to be a supervisor comes over to her to ask what’s wrong. She’s sobbing
and tells him that her boyfriend was shot and killed by police in 2015 and she
wants to know why so many officers had the guns drawn on the man who she says
is unarmed. There is no follow-up on any Hawthorne Police social media or other
online sources to confirm if the man was unarmed, arrested, or ever charged.
Indeed, the cop says that
he’s not a suspect he’s just “being detained.”
“We got a call about a
robbery …he seemed to match the description ..we’re just detaining him. We’re
not saying he’s a suspect …try to relax. It says a weapon was involved that’s
the only reason he gets held at gunpoint,” the officer tells her. She’s
sobbing. “It’s just for our safety and everybody around’s safety, OK?”
He asks who the man is to
her: “I don’t even know him but I care that much,” she weeps.
“I understand,” the cop
says.
Over the course of the next
two full minutes, with traffic stalled, horns honking and at least seven police
vehicles, the young man is cuffed and searched.
This black woman saved this man's life. Listen to the trauma and pain in her voice.— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) 9 June 2019
"Can Yall just put your guns away and somebody get him. Don't move. Don't move." 💔
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