I really hate how the media sensationalizes things and broadcasts hearsay. There was a fatal police shooting earlier today and every channel was giving 'witness' reports about how the Police gunned down an unarmed black man which in turn brought out protesters and of course the rioters joined them as well.
This is part of an earlier article about it but after reading click the link and watch the police cam videos. It all happens rather fast but the last video is in slow motion. They came to arrest the man in the white shirt and did so without incident when the man in the orange shirt, who wasn't even involved in it, thought he would take out some police.
DETROIT – A protest prompted by an officer involved shooting attracted large crowds in Detroit Friday.
Police officers were involved in the deadly shooting. It happened this afternoon at McNichols and San Juan just west of Livernois. Neighbors and police seem to have very different stories.
Protesters chanted about defunding the police and called officers racist...
The man identified as 20-year-old Hakim Littleton by family was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
But family members who saw the interaction said that's not how it happened.
They say Littleton did approach the officer but was unarmed and had dropped to his knees when officers pulled the trigger. His cousin says she saw it happen.
"They murdered him. Shot him in his back walking down the street. Oh they told them to freeze, ok put your hands up. And they did, and they shot him trying to put his phone in his pocket," said Deseanae Wells, the victim's cousin...
Detroit police release body camera footage of fatal officer-involved shooting