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"L.A. police chief booed at community meeting"
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police Chief Charlie Beck was greeted by boos, whistles and chants of "justicia" by an angry Spanish-speaking crowd at a community meeting Wednesday intended to quell violence that erupted over the past two nights after police fatally shot a knife-wielding man.
A crowd of about 300 packed a school in the Westlake neighborhood where Manuel Jamines, 37, was shot to death Sunday by an officer after he allegedly lunged toward the officer with a switchblade.
Beck was jeered after defending officers by reading a witness's account of how Jamines threatened two women.
Beck said the witness, a neighborhood resident who was not named, reported to three bicycle officers that a man with blood on his hands tried to stab her and pregnant woman next to her.
I was just watching the news on this story and the officer who killed that Guatamalan was Hispanic. His last name is Hernandez. At least they can't turn this into a race issue.
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Originally Posted by chicagonut
I was just watching the news on this story and the officer who killed that Guatamalan was Hispanic. His last name is Hernandez. At least they can't turn this into a race issue.
All 3 officers involved were Hispanic.
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The other officers involved were Steven Rodriguez and Paris Pineda, both 5-year veterans of the department. All the officers were Latino and speak Spanish.
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