Unarmed black man killed by police was pointing vaping device
Click here for reuse options!The incident in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon came as racially charged anger over similar incidents in two other U.S. cities over the past two weeks had started to subside.
El Cajon officer Richard Gonsalves and a colleague on the police force, whose name was not released, were responding to calls about a mentally unstable man walking in traffic, officials said.
The two officers confronted the man, Alfred Olango, a 38-year-old former refugee from Uganda, near a restaurant.
Police said Olango ignored commands to take his hand out of his pocket before he pulled out an object later determined to be the smoking device. Olango assumed a “shooting stance” and pointed the device, police said. No gun was ever found.
onsalves opened fire and the other officer discharged a Taser device, said El Cajon police spokesman Lieutenant Rob Ransweiler, adding the officers were at the scene for less than two minutes.
Dan Gilleon, an attorney for Olango’s family, accused the officers of improperly approaching Olango and escalating the situation.
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whatthe46 September 29th, 2016 at 15:55
seems the “police” will never learn.
CHOCOL8MILK September 29th, 2016 at 16:09
The cop (Richard Gonsalves) that shot Alfred Olango has a shady past. He has a history of sexual harassment (i.e. sending pics of his erect penis to a subordinate female officer, sexual text messages, and pestering her to have sex with him and his wife for a threesome. Overwhelming evidence).
Was this guy fired? No. He was demoted, and let back out on the street. The victim was blamed and bullied by her fellow officers for “breaking the blue wall of silence”. Law suit against him is still in the works (not sure why, the evidence against him is damning).
The same lawyer is representing Alfred Olango. This is good as the lawyer has a lot of background info about this cop from the other law suit.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-richard-gonsalves-el-cajon-police-shooting-20160929-snap-story.html
granpa.usthai September 30th, 2016 at 09:26
it’s good that the GOOD OFFICER broke the ‘blue wall of silence’. This will encourage other officers to have the courage needed to stand up for what is right instead of letting the few bad officers continue to run the department. Shame on the other officers who refused to stand up against bad officer Gonsalves – they too should be replaced at the first opportunity available. In the meantime, I see very little recourse but to take justice to the streets for international review.
bpollen September 30th, 2016 at 03:39
Anti-smoking Nazi!
I was in fear of my life from… cancer!
granpa.usthai September 30th, 2016 at 09:35
remember that WHITE RACIST TERRORIST that was shot and killed in Oregon?
how many times did they opt to draw a weapon on a duly sworn officer of the law (Bundy’s FAILED white racist terrorist attempt to overthrow the US Government included where they actually had stolen US Military weapons locked and loaded sighted in on officers and citizens).
there is definitely a conspiracy to use lethal force against those who wear a skin color similar to our beloved first Hawaiian POTUS.
it’s past time for the international media to start calling RACIAL GENOCIDE by it’s proper name.
Bunya September 30th, 2016 at 13:46
I guess the cop figured the guy only had about 50 years of life left, so…..
bpollen September 30th, 2016 at 15:15
Took the Gary Johnson long view – in a few billion years, we’ll all be dead anyway.
Willys41 October 1st, 2016 at 05:35
The problem with this story is that there are real actual handguns just as small as a vaping device and no one’s going to require police to delay taking action until they or someone else gets shot.