The officers jumped out of the auto and shot and killed the man at Sepulveda and Victory boulevards, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said at a briefing for local media Monday. “We’re trying to negotiate that surrender at this point”.
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Detectives were made aware of the video on Thursday after it was posted to Instagram and later identified three people who were inside filming, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.
A police auto, stopped at a red light in Van Nuys, had its rear window suddenly shattered, and one person was shot dead moments later, police said today.
PoliceOne, a police news blog, reported that the original Instagram account that posted the video was @brownsider_klever, which belongs to Brownside, a Chicano hip-hop group from South L.A. that late rapper Eazy-E founded in 1994.
While the investigation into the suspect will continue, LAPD said that “detectives have determined that the video in question was made for entertainment purposes only and was not a credible threat to police officers”.
According to the LAPD, the suspect in custody has a prior firearm conviction.
The criminal investigation remains open, however. An arrest warrant for carrying a firearm in a vehicle with a prior felony and a search warrant were served for him Tuesday morning, police said. A person whose face can not be seen reveals a gun, and an officer, seen through the windshield, exits the patrol auto, unaware someone is recording. “(The officers) just want to do their job, and yet all this hatred is coming at them.
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“And I know that a lot of the wives are scared”, the woman said. “And it’s becoming more and more violent”, she said.
