Huntington Park police have released new video footage in the case of a double amputee who was fatally shot after stabbing one man and threatening to throw his knife at officers. https://t.co/knsaDZ8xit pic.twitter.com/fZKoq2EvmQ
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Black Double Amputee Stabbing White Man Before Being Killed By Police In California
The amputees family are suing for civil rights violations
He was tased twice before they shot, while he almost threw his knife at the cops
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Well this is a shocker I never would have expected.
Newly released video captured the moments before a knife-wielding double amputee was fatally shot by police in Los Angeles and shows him stabbing a man in front of a gas station.
Huntington Park on Monday released video of Anthony Lowe, 36, sitting in his wheelchair on Jan. 26 before attacking a pedestrian with a 12-inch butcher knife near a Shell station.
The man, who is seen staggering, was critically wounded with a collapsed lung but is recovering.
Police also released the 911 call made by the victim, who identified himself as Ramiro.
“I got stabbed in the heart right now,” he says, moaning in pain.
The stabbing victim, who identified himself as Ramiro
When asked to describe his attacker, Ramiro says, “He has no feet,” the Los Angeles Times reported.
Another video from a nearby business captured cops approaching Lowe — who reportedly lost his legs last year –as he waved the knife and tried to throw it.
After being flipped out of his chair, Lowe lifts himself onto his stumps and scrambles away as he continues to wave the blade at the officers.
Police said the cops first tried to subdue him with a Taser but that he ignored “verbal commands and threatened to advance or throw the knife at officers.”
The officers then open fire at Lowe, who crumples onto the sidewalk and dies.
“This was an unnecessary killing. It never should have happened,” Lowe’s family attorney Annee Della Donna said, KTLA reported.
“They didn’t think twice. A double amputee who was hobbling away,” she said. “The police could have stood back 75 feet and hit him with the low-impact devices they have in the back of their vehicle.”
Della Donna suggested that the officers could have used non-lethal means to subdue Lowe.
“They could have pulled their shields out of their vehicles if they were worried about getting hit by the knife,” the attorney said, ABC 7 reported. “So many other options than executing him on the streets.”
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Ramiro described the harrowing attack in an interview with FOX 11 from his hospital bed.
“As I was crossing the street, I noticed halfway down the crossing … when the green light was on for me to cross the street. I know that he got off his wheelchair and had to stop and takes about three or four steps and looks at me, but I think nothing of it, right?” he told the outlet.
Ramiro said Lowe asked him, “Are you all right?”
He said he replied “Yes” before he “just punched me. But I did see the knife on him. And I took two steps forward. And that’s when I noticed the blood gushing out of [the] bottom of my armpit.”
He quickly realized he had not been punched, but stabbed with a large knife.
Asked if he thought he was going to die, Ramiro — who did not want his last name used — said: “Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Towards my injuries. Yes, I did. Seeing that blood gushing out of you. Yes, I did. I thought I was a doctor right there.”
He added: “Now, I understand him being in a wheelchair and everything. But why would he attack somebody like that? What’s the reason for?”
Uh, because he’s black?
Just joking.
No, I’m not joking.
I was joking about joking.
Seriously though: he did it because he’s black.