LAPD Uses Suicidal Homeless Woman For Target Practice
The Los Angeles Police Department have murdered another homeless person, and now demonstrators are taking to the streets, demanding justice.
The protest began Monday evening, when Los Angeles residents heard of the police gunning down a homeless woman who was well-known as having mental health problems.
The Monday evening protest was organized by the activist group known as the Brown Berets. One of those members, August Cevada, told reporters that “Brown lives also matter.”
Family members say that Norma “Angie” Guzman, 37, had a history of mental illness.
“They should have TASED her or pepper sprayed her or something,” Brandy Morales, an acquaintance of Guzman, said.
Guzman said she was staying in a nearby house, of Morales’s father-in-law.
The LAPD has refused to explain why officers sprayed the mentally-ill woman with bullets, instead of using “non-lethal” options instead.
It was clear, friends and family say, that she was mentally ill.
“Why did the police do this?”
Guzman’s mother Gloria pleaded.
The police seemed to think that it was their job to help suicidal, mentally-ill homeless people die, instead of getting them the medical attention that they need. Shortly after the woman begged to die, the officers unloaded on her.
“When an interaction between a law enforcement person and a person in crisis results in death, it’s always a tragedy,” Brittney Weissman, the Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Council of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, said in comment on this incident.
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