Two Latino LAPD officials have been awarded $4 million after they shot and killed an unarmed
autistic man back in 2010 got reprimanded for it and did not like the fact that they
got reprimanded for it their claiming that they were discriminated as a result of the
punishment that they received for shooting and killing this unarmed man now the picture
that you saw was the victim of the shooting his name is Steven Eugene Washington and so
let me tell you how this all went down apparently the two officers were placed on desk duty
indefinitely after the fatal shooting of the 27-year-old Steven Eugene Washington in March
of 2010 Corrales and Diego those are the police officers were on gang patrol near Los Angeles'
Koreatown when they said they heard a deep boom after that they said Washington came
up to them and looked like he was taking something out of his wristband so initial reports indicated
that was happened was they were on patrol they saw a man walking by himself after midnight
in Koreatown and that he looked suspicious so they started talking to him trying to get
his attention and he ignored them right now this guy is autistic and according to his
family he's afraid of strangers so he continued to ignored them and walk away and so since
he didn't listen the police officers claim that he reached for something in his waistband
and they thought it was going to be a gun they were afraid for their lives and so they
started to shoot at him one of the cop successfully shot him in the head and killed him officers
Allan Corrales 35 and George Diego 34 simple did what they were trained to do when they
shot and killed an unarmed man with autism well that's the only part of their story that
I somewhat agree with I think that often time they are trained to shot at the slightest
provocation so in the old days again it would have a freeze put your hands up etc now you
don't give him a chance to put his hands up you don't give him a chance to do anything
you don't give him a chance to show whether he has a gun or not but by definition you
don't know whether he has a gun but you shoot him in the head just in case I mean he's reaching
for something OK it's pretty suspicious that they heard a boom as they were driving by
right OK but you're trailing the guy you're following you're following him what does he
when you hear a boom from behind it's not him look Cenk you and I are not investigators
we weren't there on the night of the shooting right so we don't know better right something
must have occurred that we're completely unaware of and we're not giving the cops the benefit
of the doubt although there was an investigation into this and according to reports a civilian
commission ruled in 2011 that the officers were not justified in the shooting as a result
the LAPD put them on desk duty indefinitely that's the reason why they were punished end
of story now they filed a lawsuit against the LAPD because they claimed no no no no
this has nothing to do with us shooting someone that we shouldn't have shot this has to do
with the fact that we're Latino which is absolutely ridiculous and the amazing thing is their
case won the jurors were convinced that these two police officers were discriminated against
because they're Latino now let me tell you what they did in order to make their case
they gave an example of a white police officer who also shot an unarmed man and he was also
punished however he was punished for about 6 weeks ok they were punished indefinitely
and they're like that's not fair why don't we get to kill unarmed people for no reason
you're discriminating against Latino cops we like to murder people too and we got punished
so severely we got to keep our jobs but we're on desk duty we weren't arrested I mean we
shot the guy in the head even though he has no weapon nothing on him by the way you want
to know the real reason based on this fact pattern and again a commission already decided
they were not justified in the shooting my speculation is they were saying something
to him and he wouldn't listen to them because he has autism he disrespected him this guy
with autism disrespected the cops how could he they won $4 million because the police
chief said I'm afraid to have them back on the streets I mean we have a commission ruling
saying they shot the guy for almost no reason and they shot him in the head and killed him
I can't put them if he put them back on the street somebody would win $4 million when
they shoot the next guy right so in this case the police officer or in this case the police
chief that does the right thing gets punished the people that do the wrong thing get rewarded
and mind you they each got around $2 million each right which is devastating when you consider
the fact that the victim the real victim's mother Stephan Washington's mother received
$950,000 for his her son's death we killed your son here's a million bucks oh by the
way the guys who killed him we're giving them $2 million apiece it's a amazing OK but and
what sense does that make to say by the way we're going to give money to both sides the
shooting was so obviously unjustified that we're giving you a million dollars but for
the guys who did the shooting even though it was unjustified but they put you on desk
duty perfectly reasonable action to take when their shooting was unjustified and we can't
have you shooting people in the head in the streets we're going to give you $2 million
apiece madness man shear madness