Protests broke out in Los Angeles last night as the word of the killing of Carnell Snell, Jr flashed across social media. The police spotted a car with paper license plates and when they tried to pull them over the car took off and led the police on a chase. At Western Avenue and 106th Street, the passenger got out and took off running. He led the police on a chase that ended in a backyard, where the suspect was shot.
The police have not said what happened in that backyard, except to say they recovered a gun from the suspect. That is not unusual since the cops involved in the shooting are entitled to lawyers before talking. But the protesters have no problem expressing what happened in their view.
The boy’s mother claims her son was shot five times in the back, the standard starting point in any shooting. Later, we find out that the suspect pulled a gun on the police, has a criminal record a mile long and has posted pictures on their Facebook account with guns and wads of money. I’m not saying that will necessarily be the case, but how many times have we seen that already? Anyone one who isn’t skeptical isn’t being realistic.
Snell’s sister claims that she and her friends saw her brother being chased by the police and then she heard shots and she fell to the ground and when she got up, her brother was on the ground in handcuffs, the life slowly draining away. But there is another common thread in almost every shooting we have seen. The suspects refuse to follow the orders of the police.
Why is that we see this happen all the time? Simple, because suspects who follow police instructions rarely if ever get shot. Put down that knife or that gun and the police no longer feel threatened. And when they don’t feel threatened they are no longer seconds away from pulling the trigger. Everyone walks away alive if not happy.
‘At the end of the day, the cops came and shot my brother,’ she said. ‘Killed my brother.’
Relatives of the victim confronted police at the scene of the shooting.
A KABC television camera caught footage of a relative who was overcome with grief fainting in front of a small strip mall near the scene.
Black Lives Matters protesters have taken to the streets to protest their fury.
‘At a certain point we have to say we don’t care what your story is,’ Melina Abdullah, a Black Lives Matter activist, told KTLA.
Abdeullah a BLM activist just summed it up. They don’t care what the story is, all they want is a reason to protest and possibly loot and vandalize, no matter what the circumstances are. When these BLM activists volunteer to face down an armed suspect without a gun, I will be impressed but until that day comes, I won’t be paying any attention to their silly arguments.