this s what i just urge and they do listen. i also think it s important that we actually see what the deal is going to be. i don t think it s too late once there s a deal to actually debate the merits of the deal. the white house is saying we re going to take the toughest possible stand that we can, get the maximum amount of concessions that we can t. we can t talk about the sensitive negotiations going on right now. let s see where they end up let s have the debate. this is so important and such a sensitive matter. we re having a debate right here. they should have it in washington as well. these going to have to be the last word. a deadly police shooting in los angeles. police say a man was killed after reaching for an officer s gun. a witness caught the violent confrontation on camera. i m going to talk to him next. i already feel like we re the most connected but i think this solo date will seal the deal. sure! i offer multi-car, safe driver, and so many other discounts
and once you know i heard the officer screaming saying he s going for my gun, and i just heard the you know i just witnessed right there in the front of my face, the gun shots range out. did you see the man go for the officer s gun as the officer said? no i didn t actually see the man going for the officer s gun because it was so many officers around him. i didn t see that. you know that probably was another side view or something like that. i didn t see that from my actual angle. what got your attention? why did you start filming in the first place? what got my attention is that you know they was ready to well they had already had he pause right there because they i guess, apparently they were pursuing a suspect. so i stopped. and once they said they was going to tase him, i just took out my phone and started filming. we can hear in the
the gentleman s legs. we need to do better training. this happens quite a bit. i m sure you agree that we could always use more training. but four officer to take one person down that s not unusual is it? no. i was in situations where we had six or eight officers trying to take down someone half the size of myself and i m not that big of a guy. whenever we have people say he tried to grabbed the officer s gun, you should comply with a police officer, what do you make of that assessment? if he had never resisted or gone for the officer s gun, this would not have happened. yeah. well we ve seen this play out in other incidents that s occurred within the last year that have been pretty newsworthy. people are not complying with the police. that s one issue. here you have someone who may have mental health issues. whenever you re dealing with someone with mental health issues you re dealing with a set of circumstances that s
departments in the united states. neil the police commissioner saying that the threat was they believe the suspect was going for the police officer s gun. the man wasn t armed. but what was your reaction when you heard that? yeah. obviously he was not armed so the only thing that i thought of was that he was going for the officer s gun or at least the officer thought he was going for his gun. i hate to be in this position of monday morning quarterbacking. in generally speaking to this we have a long way to go with training. we had four officers trying to subdue this particular individual who obviously had some mental health issues. in corrections we train our corrections folk to subdue people and how to collectively take down someone and restrain them. it was very problematic in this scene, asaw two officers trying to subdue trying to restrain and two were kind of standing up just kind of like reaching for
being the white officer in the black community. but then the officers standing next to me who were black, they would catch as much heat if not more than i was. you said it s worse for black officers? in some occasions i ve seen it be as bad or worse for a black officer than it would be for a white officer. why is that? there are some people who really believe that the officers if they are of the same race that they feel they re a sellout in some way, they ve sold out their own race by working for the police department which they feel is just kind of trampling all over them. neill, last word. i just want the say from an int accident the management standpoint those officers that were directly involved in that shooting in any shooting when other officers come on the scene, they should be removed from dealing with the public. i think they eventually got to it but not soon enough. thank you very much. anytime. saturday night live takes on