Gawker (don’t worry, I’m not linking)-
The homeless man shot and killed by police officers on L.A.’s Skid Row this past Sunday has, until now, only been identified as “Africa.” Sources inside the investigation of the shooting now tell the Los Angeles Times that the man was 39-year-old Charley Saturmin Robinet, a convicted bank robber and French national.
According to the Times, Robinet was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2000 for the robbery, and was just released last May:
In 2000, Robinet, described as a French national, was accused with others of robbing a Wells Fargo Bank branch. Authorities said at the time that when employees were slow in handing over the money, Robinet pistol-whipped one of the tellers.
He and the other suspects led police on a chase through Ventura County, where they were arrested after striking a police car and running over a spike strip. Robinet attempted to run from police after the car chase but was caught and was found to have $33,500 on him, according to prosecutors.
During his initial interviews with investigators, Robinet said he robbed the bank to cover the cost of acting classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, authorities said.
Body cameras worn by two officers in the shooting Sunday, police told the Times, have provided a “unique perspective”:
Law enforcement sources said one of the body camera recordings captured the start of the incident, when officers initially approached the man’s tent. One source said the man is seen running inside the tent, at which point the officers tell him to show them his hands and come out of the tent.
At one point, the source said, the man began running toward the officers, flailing his arms. He can also be seen in the video spinning around, the source said.
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Gawker commenters can possibly be the dumbest on the web. (I’m happy to say that there are more and more reasonable people arguing with them of late.
Here’s a sampling of their “wisdumb.”
Unbelizeable This is a god damn smear campaign. How many times are each one of these a special snowflake before we realize its f@cking snowing. Police reform now, please.
OK, I heard this on the radio, and this is too weird. I used to work with the teller who got pistol whipped. I remember seeing his injured face after that event.
I was wondering what happened to Woody Strode.
Dumb body cameras! Now Obama, Holder, and Sharpton can’t incite a riot!
“Wisdumb.” To borrow a phrase…FRILLIANT!
Gee, he looks black. Is this another Ferguson? GOD I hope not.
The police were there because he threw a tent into the road with a man in it, who was struck by a vehicle! A little background is important. The police didn’t just show up and start hassling him.
Violent and ready to kill?
Bang. Bang. Bangbangbangbangbang, bang.
Problem solved.
“He had a history of violence.” Well I’ll be…. Coulda knocked me over with a feather. Whoda thunk?
LCDan. “He threw a tent onto the road with a man in it.” LMAO.
Like he hit a guy with a newspaper…. with a lead pipe in it .Hee,hee
“During his initial interviews with investigators, Robinet said he robbed the bank to cover the cost of acting classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, authorities said.”
Only in L.A….
Don’t we have enough toxic dumps to build prisons on top of and fill with these assholes, never to release again?
Brad, c’mon..Woody Strode was a good-looking guy.
Hey Benito, after I wrote that I thought Hmm, I wonder whet ever did happen to Woody Strode. What a story. The guys freaken awesome. Google it. He spent 3 months sleeping on John Fords floor taken care of him after he took I’ll. Pro Ball player, Pro wrestler and had no idea he was black. Funny shit but true, Ya gotta google it.What a great American.
Brad, I agree. Woody says that he didn’t experience racism. He said nothing held him back. UCLA alum and all-round good guy.
Benito, Good thing he’s passed. I don’t think he’d dig living in Obama”s racist world. I loved every movie this guy ever did. That Cameo he did in Once Upon A Time In the West was classic.
How sad, there was less racism in 1940 Hollywood then there is today in Obama”s utopia.
No more cops for progressive neighborhoods. Let them work out their own non-violent methods of criminal control.
But a large perimeter fence will be required to keep them from deporting their criminals to areas that prefer the police take care of the dangerous assholes.
Oh yeah, and the guy was shot by a black cop? Black Cops Matter, right? Am I right? Huh?
lol
It keeps getting better and better:
The homeless man who was shot and killed by Los Angeles police officers Sunday on skid row was a convicted bank robber who assumed the identity of a French man to enter the United States more than 15 years ago, according to records and interviews.
Axel Cruau, the French consul general in Los Angeles, told The Times the man identified as Charley Saturmin Robinet was not a French citizen. Rather, the man had stolen another man’s identity and gotten a French passport to come to the U.S. in the late-1990s, Cruau said.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-man-killed-lapd-stole-frenchmans-identity-officials-say-20150303-story.html
Once again, nigger bad, nigger dead