Salinas, California: Local police officers claim they had to use lethal force on a man when he didn’t obey their direct orders and then tried to attack them.
However this video, filmed by an eyewitness, shows that the man tried to back away from officers when he was fatally shot to death.
According to the paper, though, witnesses — including the 19-year-old college student who captured the video footage of the shooting — disagree. The source of the Herald clip, Yoanna Prieto, said the man appeared to be backing away from police the entire time she was filming.
A local newspaper, the Monterey Herald, reported on Wednesday that Salinas residents were responding angrily to the previous day’s incident in light of video footage published online showing local law enforcement officials firing the fatal shots at the man from point-blank range. The victim was not immediately identified by police.
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