‘I called you to help me but you killed my brother’: Unarmed black man shot dead by police in front of his sister near San Diego
A black man has been shot and killed by police in California after they responded to calls he was acting erratically –prompting protests at the scene immediately after the incident.
Police in El Cajon, about 15 miles from San Diego, said the man “drew an object from his pockets”, and took up “what appeared to be a shooting stance”, after they approached him and asked him to raise his hands.
El Cajon Police Chief Jeff Davis later said the object was not a weapon.
Police were called at around 2pm on Tuesday by the man’s sister who said he was acting “not like himself”.
The department released a photo still taken from a cellphone video of the moment two police officers approached him and the man appears to have both hands on the object and to be pointing it toward one of the officers.
The other officer had been trying to subdue the man with a stun gun.
The man was taken to hospital, where he later died.
In a video posted on Facebook, a woman identified as the suspect’s sister can be heard saying: “I called you to help me but you killed my brother.”
Crying, the woman asks: “Why couldn’t you guys Taser him? Why, why, why, why?” On the video she can be heard saying her brother’s name was Alfred Olango.
Protests soon broke out at the scene, with people shouting “black lives matter!” and “hands up, don’t shoot!”
The incident comes days after two black men were shot by police in separate incidents in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Charlotte, North Carolina. The Telegraph News
