
Millions of people have already seen it online. A mobile phone recording of another “officer involved shooting” as it’s called here. It shows a black man being wrestled to the ground by four police officers, a struggle, and then a white officer drawing his handgun and firing it repeatedly into the man’s body at close range. According to activists on social media, the man was known as Africa, and was from Cameroon.
It’s reported he was living in a tent on Skid Row, in downtown LA(Los Angeles) A homeless man, they say, with a long history of mental illness.