Dijon Kizzee: Murdered, then Handcuffed by Deputy Sheriff Pigs in S. LA
I didn’t want to write this up, but it’s so disgusting that I feel compelled to. And just to be clear, my rule of thumb is: if you don’t want to be called a Pig...don’t behave like one’. Surprisingly, RT.com has the fairest coverage I’ve read so far. My bolds.
‘Anger in LA after black man shot by deputies; police say victim was carrying a gun, 1 Sep, 2020
“BLM demonstrators flocked to a site in South Los Angeles where a black man was shot and killed by deputies of the LA County Sheriff’s Department. The man was filmed running from the officers and reportedly had a gun on him.
The shooting happened on Monday after midday in the area of Budlong Avenue and 109th Place. According to the Sheriff’s Department, deputies were driving in a patrol car when they saw the man riding a bicycle, and decided to pull him over for a traffic violation. He left the bike and tried to run away.
(Irony Alert):
@LASDHQ
#Breaking Abt 3:16 PM, 08/31/20 Deputy-Involved Shooting, No Deputies injured, Suspect Struck by Gunfire, 1200 blk W 109th Place, uninc #LA...
“When the deputies caught up with him, he fought back and punched one of them in the face. At that moment they spotted a handgun among some clothing items that the man had been carrying and dropped on the ground during the fight. It was not immediately clear if he tried to reach for the weapon before the deputies shot him, the department said in a statement to the media.
The confrontation was filmed on a phone by an eyewitness, though the footage available on social media doesn’t include the moment of the shooting itself.”
BREAKING VIDEO: Video shows moment officers fired their weapons, shooting and killing a black man. #LA #LAShooting pic.twitter.com/0uYq2Ffv6P
— Anoncat (@anoncatanoncat) September 1, 2020
“The series of short clips first shows a black man running in the street. It then goes to a moment after the shooting, showing two police officers [there eem to be more than two] with their handguns drawn and the shooting victim lying motionlessly. Witnesses are heard screaming while the cameraman says: “They shot [him] like 20 times.”
The police would not immediately release the name of the shooting victim, but his family and the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter identified him as Dijon Kizzee, who was in his late 20s.
The angry crowd of eyewitnesses grew in size over the following hours as additional protesters gathered at the scene. By Monday evening, hundreds of demonstrators convened, answering a call by Black Lives Matter organizers. The protest remained peaceful.
NEW: Family members have identified the man fatally shot today by LASD deputies in South LA as 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee https://cbsloc.al/32X42zV
NEW: Family members have identified the man fatally shot today by LASD deputies in South LA as 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee https://t.co/xCnRQq1v6r pic.twitter.com/g97Ccc571o
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) September 1, 2020
You may also be interested in Patrick Martin's Sept. 1 'Trump endorses right-wing violence in Kenosha, Portland', wsws.org
He helpfully gives the names of shooters and shots in both locations I cant keep track of. But these quotes he's featured blew me totally away:
"He [Donald Trump] claimed that in order to “teach our children that America is a free and just nation” it was necessary to “jail lawbreakers and defeat their hateful ideology.” He seemed to be echoing the extraordinary statement made by Newt Gingrich earlier in the day on Trump’s favorite cable television show, “Fox and Friends,” where the former House speaker said that the only way to “break the fever” of violence in the streets was to “keep arresting people until there’s no one left.”
Comments
sounds like a righteous
bill. and wot? they couldn't have tased him?/s
it all sounds like utter rubbish to me. 'po-po testilying'. a veHICle offense by bicycle? dude just happened to have a gun in his wad of clothes? if he hadn't popped one in the face, someone will have by now...for the photo evidence.
one version claimed that the sheriff's will look at all available CCTV cameras n the area.
dunno when i'll be able to make it back; my RL obligations are callin' me.
When you have pigs like this
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/08/27/kenosha-county-sheriff-20...
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
he and newtie must be
blood brothers. and the Pig Sheriff (no offense meant to barnyard pigs, they're very smart and clean given the chance) was also quoted as having said:
there's also a link to:
Juxtaposition of two videos from Kenosha: A Black man gets shot seven times from behind; a white teen with a gun walks past police with commentary and narrative, but my crap eyes had trouble seeing what was narrated.
it's so strange how some people are taught to hate, isn't it? it makes me think of this illuminating naci griffith sone mr. wd was playing the other night...after his employer had spoken about the very working class (and yes, often redneck these days 'trash' in the county seat west of us:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDtTI7N6a-4]
crap; it's making me cry again...
thanks, ggersh.
Doubling down on death these days
Had to shoot him, because he abandoned a weapon?
Or had to shoot him to hide the fact of a drop gun?
Or just plain had to shoot him?
Do they get a special tattoo for this?
I feel sick.
tats, dreads, muscle...
let's hassle him for a bicycle veHICle (h/t Risso on MASH) infraction. i'd guess it's a throw-down, and he'd never punched any pig in the face. he runs off on foot, they follow him? but dammit, they'll get to the bottom of it! (and erase any tape of what actually happened.)
and these weren't even city cops. LA, NY, and one other huge city swapped police commissioners for decades. bernie kerick, billy bratton, and ray kelly. gawd's blood.
NYC still loves 'broken windows' policing.
special tattoo; interesting (if sick) thought, pindar's revenge. maybe secret medals of valor? how many of them did you see in that citizen video? or were some of them just aiming their WEAPONS at him once he was handcuffed and DEAD on the ground? looked like hunting to me.
"if he wasn't (sic) guilty, why did he run away?" i've seen on twitter. #TakeAGuess
Freddie Gray
Ran from a cop who was so violent, the sheriff of the cop's home county had taken away his guns from his home. Freddie's running gave the cops enough reason to attack Freddie. It could be argued that people with sense run from people like that cop.
Coulda been a drop gun, coulda been Mr. Kizzee abandoning contraband, but I can't see where that would justify shooting him, if he ditched a weapon. But dead men tell no tales.
The tats I was thinking of: correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it in LA that some cops got special tattoos when they killed someone? Members of the club, er, gang?
edit: here's a reference to special cop tattoos. There are many articles on the web, but this one has no barriers.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/fbi-investigating-tattooed-deputy-gangs...
another edit: there appear to be a number of LA cop gangs who wear special tattoos. From
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/11/20910315/banditos-los-angeles-...
"In other cases, deputies allegedly received additional markings after fulfilling certain conditions, like committing police brutality or being involved in a shooting. "
I want to say that modern times are sickening, but this shit probably goes back to the end of Reconstruction, at least.
Yes
I wrote an essay on this.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I missed that essay
Can you give a link?
you did indeed.
here it is, and good job.
Very good, very scary essay
With a lot of good comments.
your vox link
is an eye-popper, citing about 9 tattooed groups, terrorizing not only other gangs, but the civilian population as well. must have been pretty nerve-racking for some deputies to bring the complaints. but yes, i'd thought you were being metaphorical. it seems that the myriad lawsuits haven't made much of a dent, either.
newsweek this a.m. is reporting that now the sheriff is tweeting that dijon DID have the gun in his hand...
freddie gray, say his name! rough ridden to death. i had forgotten that he'd been on a bike, too.
but how 'bout this for getting a metaphorical medal of valor for your brutal deeds?
‘Three years ago, an officer was filmed beating up a handcuffed Black man. Now, he’s the police chief’, WaPo, this a.m.
the video wasn't there, but it's probably just as well.
i expect you're right about similar shit happening since reconstruction, but there are differences, on the one hand the Rise of the Warrior Cop, the fact that many PDs give preferential hiring to vets ('the other is the enemy', many with PTSD, etc.), corporate contributions to LEO unions, no requirements to live in the community one is 'Protecting & Serving', and so on.
on the other hand, much of this we wouldn't have learned save for citizen smart phone videos.
wonder how the problem was solved?
and wondering if benjamin crump might be representing kizzeee's family, from the twittersphere:
The Mississippi Burning murders
uncovered cop-Klan collaboration. These kind of people have not gone away; police forces ("force", an interesting word to apply) are attractive to people who want to join a gang and carry a gun, and the far right has been actively infiltrating police and military for years.
Tattoos on torso or upper arm that don't show in public are one way these members recognize each other.
I think of Rall's cartoon: white guy and black guy watching news. White guy says he's scared of police. Black guy says he's scared to death of police.
Freddie Gray was on foot - the cops were on bikes. I consider his subsequent "rough ride" to be a form of torture, ultimately lethal in this case. I don't have the reference at hand now, but I read that a county sheriff had confiscated one of the bike cops' guns prior to this event. If I knew this cop (even by reputation) and encountered him, I think I'd be tempted to run, too.
good thing i hadn't remembered
that he was on a bike, as the cops were. ; ) i just watched far too many videos on his arrest and rough ride; i'm overloaded with vertigo and want to barf.
but this one might be the pithiest one, save for the ones that say the Baltimore police 'revised their timeline'.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il5dO4oqQcs]
and ta for the reminder of the klan and killer cops in Mississippi Burning; never read it, but i'll see if we can get the film if the local liberry ever opens again.
added on edit: and many seem to have been rejected from military services, or booted out. many PDs also have fired kops being rehired under new management.
even when rarely indicted, most are found not guilty, but unions also hire defense attorneys who 're-enact the crime' for juries, showing that (say) six other cops just testilyed that he was reaching for his gun (ooopsie: his cell phone), so we hadda mow him down in self-defense!'
There was a movie called Mississippi Burning,
but that phrase was actually the codename for the FBI case investigating the killings. I should see if the library has it.
My local lib is doing online orders and curbside pickup. I've been ordering a lot of comedies. I absolutely need the escape. But at the same time, I ordered a book about Nat Turner by Terry Bisson. I strongly recommend Bisson: award-winning leftist sf writer. The last thing I read by him was an alternate history, built on the assumption that John Brown and Harriet Tubman succeeded in starting a slave revolt. The South became an independent black republic. If only...
this is how barry grey
sees his visit and solutions (in part):
'Trump visits Kenosha to defend killer police and vigilantes', sept. 2, wsws.org:
#TrumpsPacificationOfKenosha
DH reminded me that The Mentalist TV series was
looking for a killer who got his wife and daughter. The group of police and their accomplices (gang) who did killing had something like a three dot tatoo. Strangely predictive.
And very creepy.
They are double and tripling down now that what they do is out in the open.
I really do have no words.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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I like your sig line
A good way to look at things.
DH?
i liked that series, but i hadn't recalled any of that. my favorite character was kimball cho, who never smiled except for one time; wish i could remember the occasion.
oh: the Red John suspects! is this the tattoo?
Hi there, that was his kill signature. The cabal had
three solid dots on a shoulder or wrist, iirc. DH=dear husband.
I'm going to post those links again using JtC's little comment URL box thingy. We can get them place to place here. I've sent links to family and friend US with no complaints so far. They were loading very slowly for me today. Our internet is satellite and can be nothing or super fast. Maybe your internet was slow with loading???
I have an early appointment, so it will be awhile.
I do want you to see what we've done.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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might it not be best if you
write an essay/blog/diary that includes your homesteading in france saga and includes you photos? this thread is going to become Dead soon.
even when i'd just tried your photo host site (like flickr?) i got 'error 404'.
Wrong essay
My bad
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
at least you'd
almost left a comment, lol.
Ditto
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.