Shocking video of Los Angeles police shooting armed man, crawling away

Deputies spotted the man in front of a gas station and ordered him to drop the gun, but he refused, the statement said.

In a cell phone video posted online by KTLA, a news station in Los Angeles, two officers are seen shooting a black man who is walking away from them.

The dramatic video, which was filmed just after 11 a.m. Saturday in the city of Lynwood, is the latest in a series of controversial officer-involved shootings across the country over the past several years and has provoked protests, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Robertson may have been in a dispute at home with his spouse before he went out on the street, but authorities have yet to verify that report, Katz said. Helmet-clad deputies formed a line and looked on, and one recorded the scene with a video camera.

During Sunday’s news conference, Katz added that Robertson’s gun “was in the direction of the sheriff’s deputy”, yet not pointed directly at them.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said a man was armed and did not comply with deputies’ requests to drop his weapon during a deadly deputy-involved shooting in Lynwood. Six to seven shots were fired into the air six minutes before the deputy-involved shooting, said officials.

“They are going to have to articulate why they made every one of those shots”, said Ed Obayashi, an Inyo County deputy and an attorney. Robertson was married with three children.

According to the Daily Beast, police assert that Robertson was armed. They will be interviewing witnesses who saw the suspect before the shooting, as well as analyzing physical evidence and video footage. Katz shared video footage and photographs from a business overlooking the intersection by the gas station that he said showed Robertson “behaving erratically” and carrying a handgun. Then, we can hear at least a dozen gunshots fired, and see him fall to the ground.

Nekeisha Robertson, described by relatives as the suspect’s wife, sobbed uncontrollably as her uncle, Tracy Brown, shouted to police, “He ain’t getting away with it!” Katz said they had no evidence that Robertson fired at police deputies, but that they were certain it had been fired “multiple times” earlier in the day.

“The shooting of Robertson comes on the heels of the Chicago Police videotaped release of the shooting of Jacquan McDonald and is eerily similar”, Hutchison said, “You have a suspect that’s on the ground and subdued yet officers still keep pumping bullets into him”.

At a press conference on Sunday, officials said the suspect’s name is Nicholas Robertson, a 28-year-old from Compton.

“The video suggests they believe he had a gun”, Heal said. Cops say they recovered the weapon from his body after he was shot dead.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department released a statement, saying that “detectives are continuing their investigation into the circumstances surrounding” the shooting that took place on Long Beach Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue, Lynwood, on Saturday, Dec. 12.