Family of man shot dead by San Francisco officers sues

A second graphic video showing the shocking moment a San Francisco man was shot dead by 10 police officers in the street has been released.

Police say he was a suspect in a stabbing earlier that day and refused to drop a small knife when confronted by a line of officers.

Graphic new video was released Friday of a fatal police shooting in San Francisco and the family is filing a wrongful death lawsuit.

The NAACP in San Francisco is hosting a special meeting Monday night after San Francisco police officers shot and killed Mario Woods last week, urging the community remain calm.

This video shows the young protesters marching along the streets, while one observer criticizes them. Cops stood guard from a distance.

“This happened under his watch”, said Sam Sinyangwe, 25.

Suhr said the department is investigating the shooting along with the district attorney and the city’s Office of Citizens Complaints. Suhr also said the department is reviewing its “use-of-force” policies and procedures and called on the police commission to arm the department with stun guns. In a press conference held on Friday, Burris stated that SFPD Police Chief Greg Suhr’s statement was false, and is calling Woods’ death “unnecessary and tragic at the hands of the San Francisco Police Department”.

The five policemen who fired their guns are placed on leave pending the outcome of the investigations. They’re: Nicholas Cuevas, Antonio Santos, Charles August, Winson Seto and Scott Phillips. Five officers fired a total of 21 bullets into Woods.

“With innocent bystanders nearby as well as the fickle behaviour of the subject, the hazard to life was at hand”, Halloran said. “With no other options available, the officers were forced to discharge their firearms”.

Suhr said at a news conference on Wednesday that police opened fire when it appeared Woods was raising the knife and approaching one of the officers.

Burris announced at a news conference he filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Mario Woods’ family.

“You do not see him lunge at the officers, run at the officers with anything in his hand”, Burris said. At one point, an officer shifts position into Woods’ path as he continues to walk down the sidewalk.

Burris is also using the wounds to Woods’s body as further proof of malicious intent.

In the clip shown Friday, a passerby can be heard screaming, “Just drop it!” at Woods before the shooting. He said it is similar to the recent police shooting deaths of La Quan MacDonald and Ron Johnson in Chicago, who were both shot in the back while moving away from police.

“He was the best to me”, she said, struggling to speak while crying, “and he redeemed himself”. “He did. He redeemed himself. He did, and he was the best to me”. “He never pointed the knife in their direction”, Shawn Richard of the Brothers Against Guns organization – who is serving as a spokesperson for Gwendolyn Woods – told The San Francisco Examiner.

Burris declined to identify the girl who captured the incident on her telephone, the third known video clip of the shooting. Burris said he is unaware if the San Francisco police have seen the new video. But Burris said that the chief came to his conclusions too soon before an investigation was even started.