Date of Incident: January 6, 2017 Officers Involved: Unit #81303 Unit #81148 (Didn’t get names this time) Department Involved: Los Angeles Police Department – Harbor Division Department Phone Number: (310)726-7700
When we got to the incident, we were there a little over five minutes before we could finally see what was going on (when the ambulance arrived). We could hear arguing back and forth between someone and the police…Then once we could see, we saw a young man sitting on the ground, handcuffed, and suffering from a stab wound, his white shirt soaked with blood.
Little by little, we could see that not only was he handcuffed, but the LAPD had also hog tied his feet AND one of the officers was standing over him, holding his taser gun, with the leads hanging down…It wasn’t until the young man in this video, found my video and contacted me, that we actually knew what had happened.
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He told me that he was stabbed twice in a bar fight, had managed to call his dad, and that a stranger was offering him a ride to the hospital. Then his dad showed up at the same time as the police arrived. He was scared and losing blood fast. He remembers trying to leave to go to the hospital, but the police would not let him leave.
He began to panic and he says he remembers being yelled at. Then he was tasered and remembers being handcuffed before he blacked out…If you notice in the video, the paramedics didn’t rush in and get him and go. Instead, there was a lot of standing around for over ten minutes before they handcuffed him to the stretcher and took him to the hospital. From first contact by the officers to when he finally was taken, was almost thirty minutes.
I have been recording LAPD Harbor Division for a little over a year now. The things that stand out the most to me, are this division/department has a serious lack of training in DEESCALATING situations. They also have a lack of training in mental illness and they all seem to deal with situations like a bunch of Juveniles – who don’t take anything seriously.
Who tasers a man that is already bleeding out from being stabbed twice? Tasering is not a method of subduing someone WHO IS SUFFERING FROM INJURIES and needs medical attention.
The kid being taken away in hand cuffs in the video (the one not stabbed), was arrested and is being charged with stabbing the victim. However, they are friends and there is no way he was the one who stabbed him.
Kelly is a lifelong resident of Las Vegas, who’s been very active in local grassroots activism, as well as on a national level during his extensive travels. He’s also the founder/main contributor of Nevada Cop Block, served as editor/contributor at CopBlock.org and designed the Official Cop Block Press Passes.
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