Screengrab from the viral video exhibiting cops chasing Lowe who was on wheelchair. Source: Twitter

Los Angeles: A nationwide outrage towards the usage of power towards a disabled individual has been ignited by the killing of a double amputee who was carrying an enormous knife and was shot by police in Huntington Park, California.

According to police, Anthony Lowe, a Black man who misplaced each of his legs final 12 months and was nonetheless ready for prosthetics, stabbed somebody on Thursday earlier than being shot roughly ten occasions within the higher physique with a stun gun.

The household of Lowe questioned the necessity to execute a man who required a wheelchair for mobility.

“Since Anthony was disabled when he was shot, if anyone else had done so, they would currently be in jail for murder, so I want to bring about truth and justice,” mentioned Ebonique Simon, the mom of Lowe’s 15-year-old son.

The stabbing sufferer, a 46-year-old male who’s steady within the hospital and awaiting surgical procedure, was recognized by Lt. Hugo Reynaga of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s murder squad, which usually handles officer shootings
involving Huntington Park police.

Reynaga said on Wednesday that Huntington Park police are composing a report on the incident.

Due to the continuing investigation into the incident, Huntington Park police declined to touch upon Lowe’s passing or describe what occurred earlier than to the interplay.

According to a press release from Huntington Park police, the unnamed officers concerned in Lowe’s loss of life have been positioned on paid administrative go away whereas the investigation is ongoing.

Lowe’s household claimed that they’ve been receiving conflicting data from police because the day he was shot useless.

Lowe had been dwelling with his mom after shedding each of his legs, the household claimed, regardless of the police telling them that they had thought he was homeless. They had been additionally advised that Lowe brandished a knife as he charged the cops, however
Simon identified {that a} witness’ account didn’t appear to corroborate that.

She claimed that the incident was not depicted within the video, which the complete world has now seen.

“I even don’t want my son to answer his phone. He shouldn’t view the videos, in my opinion,” she mentioned.

A shaky cellphone video posted on Twitter depicts Lowe, whose legs had been amputated on the knees, leaving the wheelchair and stumbling alongside the pavement whereas being pursued by cops brandishing weapons.

The footage, which obscures the circumstances of the encounter, doesn’t present the taking pictures.

The afternoon of January 26, in keeping with a press release from Huntington Park police, officers had been known as to a criticism of a stabbing sufferer.

According to authorities, the sufferer, who had suffered a collapsed lung and inner bleeding, mentioned {that a} Black man in a wheelchair had attacked him.

According to the police assertion, “the suspect dismounted his wheelchair, raced to the victim without warning, and stabbed him in the side of the chest with a 12″ butcher knife.”

Lowe was then found close by with an enormous knife whereas defying police orders, in keeping with the assertion.

Police used two Tasers in an effort to subdue him after he “threatening to advance or throw the knife” at them, in keeping with the assertion. Lowe was shot and killed on the sidewalk after that failed, it claimed.

Despite the truth that Lowe was carrying identification bearing his mom’s tackle, his household was not knowledgeable till the next morning, in keeping with relations.

Relatives hailed Lowe as a faithful father, brother, and former dancer who by no means missed one in all his son’s soccer video games.

He was the third of eight youngsters, and after shedding each of his legs to Texas police final 12 months, he had been dwelling with his mom.

They mentioned they had been by no means knowledgeable of the specifics of the contact, the situation of the incident, or what induced Lowe to lose his legs.

Anthony Lowe, file picture. Source: Twitter

He was supposed to select up his prosthetics the next Monday.

Melina Abdullah, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter-LA, advised media, “I don’t know how police could create any
reason for feeling intimidated by a double amputee in a wheelchair.”

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