A Black cyclist was fatally shot by Los Angeles County police, the latest instance of police killing a black man, as the county Sheriff’s Department and a lawyer representing the man’s family gave diverging accounts of the shooting.
Protesters were to hit the streets of Los Angeles on Tuesday, after police officers shot and killed a black man during a violent confrontation.
The man, identified as 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee, was riding his bicycle Monday in a south Los Angeles neighborhood when deputies tried to stop him for a code violation, according to the sheriff's department. Mr Kizzee ran away and when deputies caught up to him, he punched one of them in the face while dropping a bundle of clothing he was carrying, authorities said.
"The deputies noticed that inside the clothing items that he dropped was a black semiautomatic handgun, at which time a deputy-involved shooting occurred," Lieutenant Brandon Dean, of the LA County Sheriff's Department, told reporters., 29 yrs old and shot and killed by LA Sheriffs after being stopped for a bike violation. Cops handcuffed his lifeless body.
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