Los Angeles hss reportedly been the city of racial profiling and serious police brutality. These crimes in Los Angeles most of the times involve tennagers whom are suprisngly African Americans. Suprising to you, but not to me at all because I said before racism is an ongoing situation and it will never end. February 6, 2006 a huge story broke about a little boy named Devin Brown who was fatallly shot by the LAPD. The story goes that Devin Brown hijacked a care and was driving around the city in an erratice manner. Two officers who were on the premises (Danny Grant and Steve Garcia) attempted to stop Devin Brown but he speed off. THe chased lasted about 14 minutes and then Devin jumped out and began to run, not causing a real threat to the officers. All they had to do was to chase them but since they didn't feel like running after him so they opened fire and shot the boy 10 times, killing him instantly. What a tragice incident to happen and the officers tried to pin the cause of their actions by attempting to use Devin's past history against him but to no avail. Obviously, the shooting cop's life was not in jeopardy. However, he decided that a Black youth who dares to defy him is worthy of the death penalty.
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