Albany, NY – New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (SHNEYE’-dur-muhn) is investigating the death of a Brooklyn man shot by officers who mistook a metal pipe for a gun.
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Schneiderman said Thursday that his office is committed to “an independent, comprehensive and fair investigation.”
The office has the power to investigate police-involved deaths of unarmed people.
A tense crowd gathered after Saheed Vassell was killed around 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The New York Times reports that police had encountered the man before and classified him as emotionally disturbed.
Chief of Department Terence Monahan says Vassell “took a two-handed shooting stance” and “pointed an object at the approaching officers” who’d been summoned by 911 calls about a man with a gun.
Even though it may have been a pipe, the object appeared from a distance to look like a gun; this individual may have been engaging in suicide by cop. There are a lot of sick, demented, dangerous people on the streets. Years ago, they were confined to mental institutions. Today, they are all over the place, and are on our streets. A shanda!!
Probably Trump’s fault!
why do these “low income minorities” call the cops still if they hate them so much?