22 May 2014 (17:12 UTC-07 Tango)/22 Rajab 1435/01 Khordad 1393/24 Ji-Si 4712
After weeks of hispanics being gun downed by cops, people living on Del Monte Avenue, in the California town of Salinas, had enough!
On the night of 21 May people rioted after a forth hispanic man was shot and killed. So far there is no official police explanation as to who shot the man. Police claim there are at least 100 witnesses but they all refuse to talk to police.
Those 100 witnesses where part of a protest group, protesting the third killing of a local hispanic man. The protest broke out into a full blown anti-cop riot after the fourth man was shot, sometime during the protest. Local news reports say Salinas Police Department called for help from Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.
Home video shows the third shooting victim walking away from several cops who have their guns trained on him. They shot him multiple times. The cops claim the man had threatened a woman and her dog with garden shears. On the video you can hear, in Spanish, people asking the cops why they didn’t use their tazers. Cops claim they did but it had no effect. Witnesses say the cops were actually stalking the man.
21 May 2014: Somebody shot and killed a man during a protest of the increasing killings by Salinas city cops. The protest then turned into a riot as more cops showed up. Police arrested one man for “inciting a riot”. No info about who shot the deceased.
20 May 2014: Several cops fire several shots and kill a man walking away from them. Cops claim the man, who was walking calmly away from them, was “armed” with garden shears and “lunged” at them. Many people have questioned why they didn’t wound the man.
09 May 2014: A man holding a lettuce knife was shot and killed by the cops. If you are holding anything cops think could be used as a weapon they will officially accuse you of being “armed”, and then use that as an excuse to kill you.
20 March 2014: A man “armed” with a non-lethal pellet gun was shot and killed by cops.