We’re on the ground in response to this @LAPDwestvalley police shooting, who is giving no information other than saying there are "no outstanding suspects". There are 30+ cops here, many in suits. No more info is being given to us. #DefundThePolice https://twitter.com/wvpple/status/1291776992308731905

We’re now hearing that someone's son was having a mental health crisis came out with a knife and was shot by @LAPDwestvalley. Another shooting that should be handled by mental health professionals/people who can deescalate. Instead, mental health svcs continue to be cut.

At the scene of @LAPDwestvalley shooting of someone’s son having a mental health crisis. Neighbors r speaking out. “One day you will be abolished...your answer is always to shoot people...& then we protest & you shoot us with tear gas. The people ur supposed to protect & serve”

“Since the day y’all were slave patrol-Slave catchers! Y’all don’t protect nothing, and nobody...You think I wanna wake up to the news that you shot somebody? I live here!” To @LAPDwestvalley as the investigation scene of policing shooting of a man in mental health crisis this am

“Y’all would not have shot him if he were your son. You would’ve talked to him, but that’s not in your training...And we’re mad! This is the voice of the people. This is the voice of all the mothers who sons were shot, and no autopsy! You don’t even tell us why!” #DefundThePolice

Another neighbor showing video of his daughter arrested for “inciting a riot” for simply filming #GeorgeFloyd protests. She was backing away whene they arrested her.

To LAPD: “We are angry for everyone life taken by the police. We are not going to forgive it. We don’t forget it”

“You’re not protecting us...[shootings are] still happening, on my block.” @KNOCKdotLA @reporterliz @AlpertReyes @libdenk @josie_huang @KTLA @ABC7 @SpecNews1SoCal

The police told us he was having a mental health crisis, had a kitchen knife and threatened to kill himself. He was then shot TWICE! Does that sound like someone who needs to be shot? Or someone who is in crisis and needs help?

. @KTLA interviewing neighbor: “During this pandemic everybody is going through something...he was not having his best day, and he should not have a gun pointed at him.” #DefundThePolice

“Maybe he just needed someone to talk to. Instead he’s shot. We’re out here because we care.”

“Every time this happens in rips a hole in the fabric of our community...they say there are “no suspects”, but @LAPDwestvalley shot someone. They’re the suspects who shot someone in crisis...This is unacceptable.”

#DefundThePolice