Another African American was killed by police shots in the USA: As the police chief of the US capital Washington, Peter Newsham, said at a press conference, yesterday (local time) a police officer shot the escaping man during a vehicle check. According to local politicians, the victim is said to have been 18 years old.
The officers received a tip that there were weapons in a car in southern Washington, Newsham said. When the police approached the vehicle, some of the vehicle occupants fled on foot. „One of the officers used his gun,“ Newsham said.
Video recordings are evaluated
The African American who was shot was then taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Newsham added that officials at the „crime scene“ had seized two weapons.
According to Trayon White, a member of the city council, the dead man’s family is now waiting for the video recordings to be evaluated. “We want to find out what the images from the body camera show. We want to know if he ran away, why he was shot, „White told the broadcaster WUSA9.
In the United States, there have been protests against police violence and racism in many cities in many cities since the killing of the African American George Floyd in a brutal police operation in Minneapolis in late May. The demonstrations were fueled by the fatal police shots at the Black Dijon Kizzee on Monday in Los Angeles. According to police, the African-American had fled and dropped a bundle of clothes with a gun in it.
