Anthony Lowe. Huntington park jan 26 2023
Double amputee shot by police while “running for his life while terrified.”
How in the world could a police shooting involving a legless man be justified? Well, maybe we’ll see that below? Community outrage was immediate after video showed Lowe hobbling along in a pretty funny video but did not show the shooting because a vehicle blocked the end of the encounter. As you will see below, apparently, black man hunting season has begun already in 2023, but how does one get a hunting license for a double amputee?
“I don’t know how police could make any excuse for feeling threatened by a double amputee in a wheelchair,” said Melina Abdullah, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter-LA. “It’s disgusting. It just shows you it seems to be open season on Black people.”
Anthony Lowe lost his legs after a police encounter in Texas in late 2022. The family said they do not know the circumstances of that incident as he didn’t talk about it and as an adult, Texas state police do not have to divulge that information to family while he is still alive. All that is known is that he was arrested for an armed robbery warrant from 2021 in what is a big surprise of someone who ends up shot by police.
On the day Lowe was shot, he was riding around downtown la, minding his own business, when he decided to stab an Asian man in the back with a 12 inch butcher knife. The man suffered life threatening injuries and suffered a collapsed lung.
Police located Lowe and he jumped out of his chair and tried “running” away while holding the butcher knife. He is on video swinging it at officers multiple times. Police try to use a taser on Lowe two separate times and it fails to make a good connection.
The full incident is captured on video from a local business. In that video it shows Lowe swinging the knife and then he cocks back his arm to throw the knife at officers.
community and family reaction:
His mother had this to say: “
Lowe’s mother Dorothy
said, “
This situation is worse than George Floyd. When these videos go out, it’s going to be all bad.”
“Black man who had both legs amputated last year, are demanding justice for what they consider a new
racist murder by law enforcement officials.”
“You knew there was no danger to life. He’s running on his limbs. How can you be so cold-blooded?” one of the Lowe’s cousins asked the police. Another family member said: “If you are here to protect and serve, do that, protect us. Don’t kill us.”. “Nothing but the truth and justice.
My son has been murdered,” she said.
legs were amputated after an incident with a Texas State Patrol trooper. The family also harbors doubts about that episode, which occurred last year, but have not offered any further details regarding it.
Charges against the officers?
In California, officers are only permitted to use their firearms when necessary to
defend human life.
So far, the officers have not been charged.
La prosecutor, george gascon, probably my number 2 worst progressive DAs in the country behind larry krasner of Philly, ran on a promise to prosecute cops for murder. He has hired two former defense attorneys to head a special unit to prosecute and review cases of police use of force. The problem is that neither have ever filed charges before this and were never prosecutors. So far, the first case they brought was laughably dismissed in the preliminary hearing and the second resulted in an acquittal. One veteran prosecutor said that these two often come to his desk and ask for help saying “I’ve never done this before.”
gascon even hired a special lawyer, Middleton, to review cases of charges that were not brought by his predecessor at an
exorbitant salary of $375 per hour!!
Public records show that Middleton is being paid $375 per hour, and some in the office derisively refer to him as “Millionaire Middleton.” A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office could not provide information about how many hours Middleton has billed since 2021,despite foia requests about this issue.
The lawsuit:
Like clockwork, the family of this shitbag has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit in a record 7 days after this incident. However, I can’t find if it is still pending. I found an article that said a lawsuit was settled, but that may have just been for the lawsuit to get the names of the officers and the city agreed to pay $6900 for lawyers fees and then they retract the complaint after receipt of funds. The police identified the officers in June. So again, I don’t know if it is still pending.
My thoughts:
Justified, with a caveat. This police department does not have body cameras, so they sure as hell are not going to have less lethal or beam bag rounds. The tasers probably about broke them financially. We purchased 12 tasers and 12 body cameras for our security force and it was 50k. But my caveat is that police could have boxed him in with vehicles and would have been safe from the knife. Remember, I always say that when facing a knife, distance and barricades are the most important factors. A car is that barricade.
They also could have pepper sprayed him from a relative safe distance. But he absolutely is a threat to the community and the officers when he has already
stabbed and almost killed one person. When he threatens to throw the knife a few times and then finally draws back his arm, police were justified in shooting him. While a thrown knife has a 25% chance of hitting with the sticky end(4 possible surfaces to hit if on target) and would not go through a vest, there are legs, arms, and especially the head and eyes. He would probably miss, even from a few feet away, but who in the fuck has the right to question police who are the ones facing a deadly threat? Come on down and let me throw a knife at you from four feet away.
And since the family and activists can claim this was a “racist murder” why aren’t we asking if Lowe’s attack on Ramiro was a racist attack? He chose a Hispanic male, whom black men have historically had beef with-maybe he couldn’t find an elderly Asian woman and chose the next best thing.
“they treated my cousin like an animal!!”
The real victim in this case
https://abc7.com/huntington-park-police-shooting-anthony-lowe-lawsuit/12763708/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...lchair-sparks-outcry-demand-answers-rcna68705
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ead-cops-Huntington-Park-says-not-threat.html
