If you were wondering if former CNN host Piers Morgan would hop aboard the latest anti-LAPD bandwagon, wonder no more!
According to the Daily Mail article linked by Morgan, eyewitnesses said the homeless man shot by the LAPD did not seize (or try to seize) an officer’s firearm:
Witnesses who saw police officers kill a homeless man on LA’s skid row yesterday have trashed claims that he was trying to shoot them with one of their own weapons.
Stunned passers-by saw three officers fire at least five shots at the pinned-down man, who was confronted by cops on Skid Row.
Police chiefs have insisted their officers only killed the man because he was trying to snatch an officer’s handgun and turn it on him – but the claims didn’t wash with people on the scene.
And we all know eyewitnesses in high-profile police shootings never, ever lie.
Morgan, of course, is well-known as a stickler for factual accuracy. Especially when it comes to anything having to do with guns.
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Related:
#RealReporting: New York Daily News is latest to say homeless man shot by LAPD was ‘unarmed’
CNN’s Chris Cuomo lectures LAPD on need for better training
CAIR’s executive director: Homeless man killed by LAPD was unarmed
Graphic video shows LAPD cops shoot homeless man to death in Downtown L.A. [warning]
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