The family of Niani Finlayson, a mother of two, is suing Los Angeles County and the deputy who fatally shot her after she called the police on her ex-boyfriend. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah breaks down the bodycam footage of what led up to the shooting in front of Finlayson’s young daughter.
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Ty Shelton killed 2 people
4 seconds?
please sue is person
You can use taser
I have seen police officers literally begging white people to drop knives and even guns, yet he enters the apartment and shoots her 4 times within 5 second
I don't think the cops did anything wrong here. They entered the apartment and seconds later, the mother had advanced to where the boyfriend was sitting with a large knife and was holding him and threatening to stab him. What should they have done instead? Let her stab that man to death, like she said she was going to do? And what would that man's relatives have done had this hypothetical been enacted? Sued LAPD for $170 million claiming that LAPD did nothing to protect their son who was unarmed and innocent? She never should have threatened to attack him knowing full well the police were there watching.
Again what next kids this is sad they are still able to do this and not get in trouble.
I’ve watched this on 3 different channels. This is the absolute worst reporting I have ever seen. The reporter states, “ this is the tense moments when the police body camera shows that a LA deputy shoots and kills a 27 year old black women in front of her daughter.” Fails to say that she said she was going to stab him while armed with a knife standing a foot away from her boyfriend.” It’s funny that you had to state “black woman” like the color of her skin really matters. Always looking for that racist cop. These news people are disgraceful. It’s a extremely tragic story. Daughter is the biggest tragedy. Hope she has family to take care of of her. Probably the bf fault, but you can’t say I’m going to stab him while being armed with a knife standing right next to him. At this point she was the assailant. She was a pretty lady, condolences to her family.
If the woman actually stabbed the bf then the police killed her, the bf would sue but the gf's family cant.. if the police dont do anything or never show up…then you'll have a murder scene. No wonder people dont want to be a cop & black people rather not diall 911
70 million is WAY too much 😭
She called to her own killer ☹️☹️☹️ the police could use other techniques to stop her☹️☹️☹️ it was really avoidable death😢😢😢🥺
Why would you act stupid like that in front of the cops?
If that was a white chick he wouldn’t of shot her. Like in that other video they gave the white chick with the weapon more attention then the guy who was cut.
ARE THEY NOT TAUGHT TO DEESCALATE?!?!
This is so stupid, she wants to try to stab him once cops are there 😑 she should have let the cops handle him if she was so scared and threatened
The world is in the middle of war ⚠️
1. She said she was going to stab him
2. She ignored a lawful order to drop said weapon.
3. She lunged at the Man with a deadly weapon.
This is justified.
This is why only firefighters were memorialized after 9-11, Orange County choppers built a tribute motorcycle to the 343 firefighters killed on that day, no body said what about the cops?
Yea that video clearly showed a trigger happy bald head racist cop
So now we can't call the police!!! Instead of using the taser, you use the gun😮
Lawsuit denied 🚨
Police did what they are trained to do, she had the knife and was going to attack a person, any officer would've shot her.