Video fails to show whether teen shot by deputy in Compton had gun
Footage from a security camera captured the last, frantic seconds leading up to the shooting death of a teenager in Compton by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy. But the images fail to resolve conflicting accounts of the incident.
The video, taken from a surveillance camera mounted on the facade of a doughnut shop, shows 16-year-old Avery Cody Jr. on July 5 sprinting from the sidewalk onto Alondra Boulevard. A deputy is seen giving close chase with his gun drawn and apparently firing at the boy, who is beyond the camera's range.
The images are too poor in quality to confirm the statement by sheriff's officials that Cody had a handgun in his left hand as he fled. Read more about the video and the Compton shooting.
-- Joel Rubin and Richard Winton
The headline of this article shows your bias against law enforcement.
Please stay neutral and allow us to decide what the is the truth.
Posted by: doesnt matter | July 17, 2009 at 09:24 AM
This is his second time .We the people don't need to be "protected " by this deputy !
Posted by: mike pherigo | July 17, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Sure looks like a gun to me. Why didn't the young man just stop and assume the position? It's not like he hadn't been through the drill before. Stupid.
Posted by: Jim Q. Citizen | July 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM
so if the kid had a gun in his hand when he was shot down, wouldn't there be a gun laying on the ground, splayed out from the world to see? it should be very obvious, very quickly, whether or not he had a gun in his hand. The only mentioning of the object in his hand was just to say that the camera that caught the scene was not good enough to capture a clear enough picture to be able to tell what the object was. The cops know, they're just not saying anything. My guess is that the cop that shot the kid was trigger happy... because the kid was just running away from him, not endangering his life.
Posted by: N/A | July 17, 2009 at 01:47 PM