Chief Charlie Beck said Carnell Snell had a fully loaded semiautomatic handgun in one hand and turned toward officers when they fired Saturday. Protester Melina Abdullah accused police of selectively releasing a portion of video to justify the shooting and “posthumously assassinate the character of our brother Carnell Snell”. The footage posted to the police department’s YouTube channel does not show officers shooting Snell because that location was not within the viewing range of the surveillance camera. But Beck told reporters the video of Snell with the gun was made public to promote public safety and correct misinformation about shooting. Snell was the third black man in five days to die in confrontations with police in southern California.

Source: The Guardian October 04, 2016 21:01 UTC