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KBOO
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Air date:
Thu, 08/27/2015 - 12:00am
Another fatal police shooting in Oakland, CA
A policewoman shot a man to death this morning in the Adams Point neighborhood of Oakland, after he assaulted her with what the police have only described as a “metal object,” but which witnesses say was a bike chain.
The officer, who has not been named, received a call that the man had assaulted somebody with a bike chain early in the morning.
She radioed for more police and an ambulance at eight-thirty-six after shooting the man, who is black, and who relatives have said suffers from an unspecified mental illness.
KBOO spoke with Nayomi Munaweera, a Sri Lankan-American author based in Oakland, who witnessed the immediate aftermath of the shooting.
Munaweera also captured cell phone video of the aftermath of the shooting, including people reacting as the police finally began to perform C-P-R on the man, who his clearly lying in a pool of blood.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Oakland Police Department did not respond to KBOO’s questions in time for broadcast, regarding the time that elapsed before first aid, and the department’s policies regarding officers approaching mentally ill suspects.
The names of both the officer and the dead man have not been released.
The officer, who has not been named, received a call that the man had assaulted somebody with a bike chain early in the morning.
She radioed for more police and an ambulance at eight-thirty-six after shooting the man, who is black, and who relatives have said suffers from an unspecified mental illness.
KBOO spoke with Nayomi Munaweera, a Sri Lankan-American author based in Oakland, who witnessed the immediate aftermath of the shooting.
Munaweera also captured cell phone video of the aftermath of the shooting, including people reacting as the police finally began to perform C-P-R on the man, who his clearly lying in a pool of blood.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Oakland Police Department did not respond to KBOO’s questions in time for broadcast, regarding the time that elapsed before first aid, and the department’s policies regarding officers approaching mentally ill suspects.
The names of both the officer and the dead man have not been released.
- KBOO
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