Man ignores cops鈥 pleas, killed
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DESPITE demands that he “Show both hands!” and shouts that “You’re going to get shot man!” a 19-year-old in California refused to pull one hand from behind his back and to stop walking toward Fresno police. Officers then shot him four times, killing him.
Dramatic and graphic body-camera video shows the man, identified as Dylan Noble, was struck twice after he already had gone down from the first two bullets. “Get on the ground now!” officers continually shout at Noble in the video released by police on Wednesday. One yells: “Drop whatever you have in your hand!”
It turned out Noble, who was white, was unarmed and holding only a small, empty plastic container with an unknown purpose, police Chief Jerry Dyer said. Officers, who had been looking for a man with a gun when they pulled him over, had no way of knowing that with his refusal to cooperate.
One officer shot him twice as Noble yelled that he hated his life. He was still moving his arms, and officers were still shouting for him to stop, as he lay on the ground. Another shot from the same officer and a fourth from a second officer finally made him stop.
At a news conference, Dyer acknowledged the video is gruesome, but he said it was important for the public to see. He said he prays it won’t spark violence amid simmering anti-police sentiment in Fresno and elsewhere.
“Tensions are high,” Dyer said. “In some cases we are one spark away from a forest fire. And I pray this video doesn’t serve as that spark.”
Dyer said he intended to make the video public last Friday, but he held off because of the shooting deaths of police in Dallas the night before.
Noble’s death on June 25 came more than a week before police killed two black men in shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota, sparking protests.
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