The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has released video showing what officers saw when they arrived on scene September 17 for a domestic violence call and ended up shooting 19-year-old Luis Herrera dead for pointing a rifle at them.
It turned out that the rifle was an Airsoft gun without the usual bright orange marker on the end of the barrel.
The Daily Mail notes that Herrera called 911 to report that his father was allegedly abusing him and his mother.
Two LAPD officers responded to the call, and Herrera emerged from the home brandishing a black rifle as the officers approached the front porch.
One of the officers ordered Herrera to drop the rifle, then opened fire after he refused to comply. Herrera was hit six times and fell to the ground.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The LAPD noted that the rifle Herrera was holding was an Airsoft rifle and a pistol, also found in Herrera’s possession, was an Airsoft pistol.
The claim that Herrera’s father was abusing the 19-year-old and his mother proved to be false.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. AWR Hawkins holds a PhD in Military History with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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