Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said Robertson walked south on Long Beach Boulevard, where he was yelling and acting strangely, and spent some time at a auto wash and pizza place before deputies arrived at the scene, and saw Robertson with a gun.
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Deputies spotted the man in front of the gas station, where two women and three children were inside a vehicle, and they ordered him to drop the gun, Katz said. The camera pans to focus on Robertson, who appears to crawl on the ground, away from where the deputies are firing their guns. One of the deputies had been on the force for 12 months, the other, 18 months. “Nothing”, Monica Reddix said. A group of civil rights organizations are planning their own news conference and are calling for a meeting with McDonnell.
The Sheriff’s Department said every fatal deputy-involved shooting gets independent investigations from the local district attorney’s office and the county coroner. The division didn’t say within the assertion that the person killed was black, regardless of stating that the preliminary studies involved a black man.
The cell-phone video footage, which starts seconds before the officers open fire, does not appear to show the main aiming at officers, but rather shows cops following him as he walks away from them. That case is still under investigation.
LASD said there was no evidence at this time to show that Robertson fired his weapon at deputies.
“They shot him in his shoulder, and he was crawling”, Pamela Brown, Robertson’s mother-in-law, told KCAL-TV. “They shot him; as he crawled, they continued to shoot him”.
KLTA5 reports that around 11am on Saturday police received reports of an armed African-American man walking near Magnolia and Alpine Avenues in Lynwood. In the photos and video, Robertson appears to be holding a gun.
One deputy fired 16 shots at Nicholas Robertson, while another fired 17 shots, according to Capt. Steve Katz of the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau. The police allegedly told Nicholas Robertson to put his gun down, and after he failed to do so he was shot.
At least a dozen gunshots can then be heard being fired, and the man falls to the ground. He drags himself on the ground alongside an Arco gas station. The two deputies that shot Robertson have been removed from field duty for the investigation.
“There was some grave concern for the number of people in that area”, Katz said. “The suspect presented a threat to the deputies and to the community and they took the action that they did”.
“It does not strike me as egregious like (the) Walter Scott video here in SC….”
On Saturday, the man’s family said they believed he was unarmed, KTLA reported. More facts, he cautioned, are needed to determine what occurred outside the video. He added that the handgun wasn’t loaded when deputies approached Robertson, and there is no evidence that he fired at them, but the suspect was holding rounds at the time he was shot. That’s when the deputies shot and killed him. “They must show they reasonably used deadly force”.
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The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department was called Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, after a man had shot several rounds into the air. They also released video shortly before the shooting and of the shooting.
