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Complaint Review: Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department - Compton Area - COMPTON California
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Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department - Compton Area PUBLIC LYNCHING, FAILURE TO USE DEPARTMENT POLICY AND/OR COMMON SENSE COMPTON California
ON 8/24/03 IN THE LATER EVENING HOURS, THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT. ACOSTED A MAN, DEANDRE BRUNSTON, ON THE FRONT PORCH OF HIS COMTON ESTATE. HE WAS ON ONE KNEE AND WAS SUMILATING A GUN. THE SHERIFF DEPUTIES WERE TELLING HIM TO DROP THE GUN. THEN THEY TOLD HIM THAT THERE ARE GOING TO SEND IN THE DOG WHO WOULD BE BITING HIM IF HE DOESNT GIVE UP NOW. THE FIRST K9 DEPUTY ON SCENE, ERNEST BURWELL REFUSED TO SEND HIS DOG IN TO ATTACK A MAN THAT IS ALREDY DOCILE. TO THREAT AT THIS TIME. WHERE WERE THE NEGOTIATORS? WHO KNOWS. SINCE THE DEPUTY THAT KNOWS THE RULES AND POLICIES WONT RELEASE HIS HOUND, LT. PATRICK MAXWELL, SUPERVISOR ON DUTY. WAS CONTACTED AND WASKED WHAT TO DO NEXT. THE DEPUTY THAT TOOK THE CALL SAID THAT LT. MAXWELL WAS OBVIOUSLY DRUNK AND AT A PARTY AND IN THIS CONDITION GIVES THE ORDER TO CALL IN A ROOKIE K9 DEPUTY THAT WILL JUST DO AS HE IS TOLD CAME AND RELEASED THE HOUND. BEFORE THE HOUND EVEN REACHED DEANDRE, HE TOOK ON OVER 80 HITS FROM BULLETS FOR THROWING A SMALL RUBBER SHOWER SHOE. NO GUN. IF PROCEEDURE WAS FOLLOWED WE WOULD NOT HAVE LOST A FINE BRAVE DEPUTY DOG WHO WAS AIRLIFTED TO A LOCAL VAT WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. I FEEL PARTICULARLY THAT THE BE A LITTLE MORE TRAINING ON LETTING A DOG GO. THERE WAS NO EXCUSE FOR THE BRUTALITY THAT OCCURED THIS MORNING
TO SEE VIDEO OF THE SHOOTING, GO TO YOU-TUBE AND SEARCH FOR DRANDRE BRUNSTON
Oswald
Los Angeles, California
U.S.A.
TO SEE VIDEO OF THE SHOOTING, GO TO YOU-TUBE AND SEARCH FOR DRANDRE BRUNSTON
Oswald
Los Angeles, California
U.S.A.
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Corndog
Aurora,Colorado,
U.S.A.
Your views are skewed
#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sun, January 11, 2009
I am a former Deputy of Los Angeles Sheriffs Department and now one with another and I saw your video on you tube. Yes there were mistakes with the how it was handled, however Deandre is 100% at fault for this shooting. Basically what you have is someone for an unknown reason kneeling on a porch, partially obscuring his body around a pillar on the porch taunting the Sheriff Deputies to release one of the K-9's there at the scene, telling the Deputies that he will shoot the dog and anyone who tries to take him. He then goes on threatening to have a gun, which yes as it turned out to be a "black shoe." Bottom line is that Deandre in his perverse manner attempted to convince Law Enforcement officers that he had a gun all along, that he was willing to use it. When the second k-9 was released to go and subdue the suspect "Deandre," Deandre pulled his hand out with the Dark Black object towards the dog. Keep in mind this is all in split seconds. The Deputies reacted thinking it was a gun (After all, for over 10 minutes he kept telling the Deputies he had a Gun) opened fire killing Deandre and unfortunately the dog that was doing his role. Mistakes were definitely made, however if you convince Law Enforcement Officers you have a gun, and then take reckless action that any reasobable person would feel threatened regardless of what the object is and you find yourself fired upon in defense of the person you have threatened repeatedly, this will be the outcome. No crimes committed by Deputies. However one of their dogs was killed, there in lies the screw ups. Its basically whats called "Suicide by Cop."
