<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/07/1400047/-Los-Angeles-Police-shot-killed-more-people-5-the-past-4-days-than-Japan-the-UK-did-in-2014#">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/07/1400047/-Los-Angeles-Police-shot-killed-more-people-5-the-past-4-days-than-Japan-the-UK-did-in-2014#</a><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><img alt="" width="550" height="309" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 24px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 24px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline; " id="99d4c91f-5146-477e-8cbf-1179f5647c2f" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:A5A72F32-AE37-400D-91DA-0A6F88CE2EBC"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">We have a big fu*king problem. Period.<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; ">In the past four days during the extended Fourth of July holiday weekend, police in Los Angeles County <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-0707-deputy-shootings-20150707-story.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(229, 114, 30); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">shot and killed five different people</a> in five different incidents across the county.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; ">In the United Kingdom, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-its-a-crime-that-we-dont-know-how-many-people-police-shoot-to-death/2014/12/01/adedcb00-7998-11e4-b821-503cc7efed9e_story.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(229, 114, 30); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">zero people were shot and killed by police</a> in all of 2013. Mind you, the UK, with a population of nearly 65,000,000, <a href="http://www.dailynews.com/social-affairs/20150330/5-ways-los-angeles-countys-population-is-changing" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(229, 114, 30); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">has 5x the population</a> of Los Angeles County.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; ">Before you start talking about how many guns the United States has, these police killings in Los Angeles <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-0707-deputy-shootings-20150707-story.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(229, 114, 30); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">weren't a bunch of shootouts</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; ">Johnny Ray Anderson was completely unarmed and struggling with homelessness alongside his wife when he was shot and killed by police. His wife, Kathleen, stated he posed no threat to the officer whatsoever.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; "></p><div><br></div></span></div></body></html>