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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on June 14, 2024, 05:59:38 PM
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A Korean American family called for help. An LAPD officer arrived, shot mentally ill son
Yong Yang, 40, was killed May 2 in his parents' Koreatown home after he allegedly brandished a kitchen knife toward officers. LAPD body-cam video recorded the shooting. Min disputes that Yong tried to harm him or the clinician and says his son had never been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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Activists call for action after no charges filed in fatal police shooting of Yia Xiong
Community members are speaking out after prosecutors decided not to charge the St. Paul police officer who shot and killed a Hmong man last year.
Officer Abdirahmin Dahir shot 65-year-old Yia Xiong, who was holding a knife, outside his apartment on Feb. 11, 2023. A use-of-force expert says officers’ lives were in imminent danger and, therefore, were justified in using deadly force.
More than a year since Xiong’s death, community members are calling on the department to change its response policy.
“The announcement is totally unjustified,” said Snowdon Herr, founder of Justice for Yia Xiong. “We need them to notify us if it is a Hmong person who cannot speak English.”
Herr says having a Hmong-speaking responder would have changed the outcome. Family members say Xiong was partially deaf, couldn’t understand English and struggled with mental health issues.
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The Blacks know this very well of the White cops: when they can't find
the real culprit, they take down another Black to make them feel good.
The pronoun "them" applies to the most recent now preceding it.