TORRANCE, CA– Newly released body camera footage shows police shoot 23-year-old Christopher Deandre Mitchell within 15 seconds of contact. The video shows him complying with orders apologetically. When Mitchell did not immediately respond to the officers demands of stepping out the vehicle, the officer fires three rounds into the car.
Mitchell was parked inside a Ralphs parking lot when he was approached by officers.
After the unidentified officer shot Mitchell, they told him, “We need to help you.” Mitchell was the only son of Sherilyn Haynes.
“Torrance police unnecessarily murdered my son,” Hayes said in an interview with the Daily Breeze. “He was polite to them — he was doing exactly what they told him to do,” she said. “It was a senseless murder. My son didn’t have to die that day.”
Christopher’s family and Black Lives Matter L.A activists have been going to Torrance City Council meetings every week since he was murdered on December 9, 2018, demanding the names of the officers be released and they be fired and prosecuted.
Torrance Mayor Patrick Furey and the city council have refused to give any information and have also refused to set up an independent commission to review the case, along with police misconduct in the City of Torrance.
Tina Sampay, known as Slauson Girl, is a journalist, author and media founder from South Central Los Angeles. Her Bachelor of Arts in Critical Race and Gender Studies informs how she examines race, gender and power in her journalism. She founded Slauson Girl Media Group, a Black woman-owned news and media organization. Her reporting, podcast conversations and video interviews center local news, community voices, culture and the issues shaping Los Angeles.
I hope that cops children are raped and mutilated while he watches I wish his genes would seize to exist as they only regress our human species and contributes nothing.
Are you demented or what, wishing that upon his children no human being that is right in his head would say something like that. I am sorry for that family and i hope the book is throughen at them and they get life sentences without the possibility of parole, but sir you carlos go get some help bro.