[AMP-L] Police Shooting of Dbl Amputee Holding a Knife

[Wayne Renardson]

via Los Angeles Times:

As they do every week during football season, the Lowe family 
gathered Sunday morning to watch the NFL games on two big flat 
screens in the South Los Angeles home of the family matriarch.  

But as the San Francisco 49ers prepared to face off against the 
Philadelphia Eagles, there was one fewer family member watching. 
Anthony Lowe, 36, had been shot and killed by Huntington Park police 
officers Thursday afternoon.  

Instead of talking football, the family spoke in hushed tones of the 
grainy cellphone video they´d seen the night before: Lowe, a double 
amputee, trying to run from Huntington Park police officers on what 
was left of his legs while holding a long-bladed knife.  

Lowe´s lower legs had been amputated last year. In the video, he 
appears to have just dismounted from a nearby wheelchair. As he 
scrambled down the sidewalk away from the uniformed officers, two 
police sport utility vehicles drove into the frame and parked,  
blocking the camera´s view.

The rest of the story, with photos here:

https://tinyurl.com/22em36of

Wayne R.