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Los Angeles, California — On April 23rd, 2021 around 2:25 a.m., LAPD North Hollywood Division officers responded to a radio call of an Assault with a Deadly Weapon suspect armed with a knife at an apartment complex in the 5200 block of Whitsett Avenue. When the officers arrived, they encountered an adult man in the open-air walkway of the complex. He was holding the handle of a knife that appeared to be stuck in his neck. He told the officers he was suicidal and threatened to push the knife further into his neck. While officers continued to talk to the man, additional officers were requested, and an ambulance was requested to their location to be ready to treat him.
Officers continued to ask the man to release his grip on the handle of the knife, so he could receive medical treatment. After continued unsuccessful efforts to have the man release his grip on the knife handle, a TASER was used. The man charged in the direction of the officers with a knife and a 40mm less lethal round was discharged and an OIS occurred. The man was struck by gunfire and fell to the ground. He was transported to a local hospital where he received medical treatment and is expected to survive. No additional community members or officers were injured during the incident. Two large bloody kitchen knives were recovered and booked as evidence.
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Brass prices are rising 😂🤣😂
did you hear him….he said " many ppl been doing this sh** i dont give a F*** shoot me " 🤦ðŸ½â€â™€ï¸ idioto…if they all ate sh*** would you do that too??
Officers was right 100%
These cops make the situations worse. They don’t know how to talk to people smh
O Edwin you silly goose
he was suicidal..this is sad
why have a rubber bullet gun when real guns are drawn? this isnt how you deescalate shit
I've decided that living in Southern California is making people insane.
The universe didn't want him to die… he survived the fall, a knife in the neck and getting shot…
What a shame he lived
That guy definitely didn’t want to live. It suck that that involved the officers that have to live with this. True shame sorry for you having to go through this.
Pero, they warned him.
Bad decision to deploy taser with clothing like that
Bad day eh??? This man fell/jumped from 2nd floor, stabbed himself with a knife, got tazed, bean-bagged AND shot. After jail, he'll have a pretty fat bill to pay for all of it too… GG Edwin
Drugs make people do dumb shit
spends 5 min telling him hay my gun will kill you faster and suprised when he lunges,,,bad cop sad story
35 cents for the bullet. Use three that's a 1.05. Bill the family. Easy peasy.
Dead criminals don't hurt good, law-biding citizens.
Who rushes towards cops having many guns on you.? And to what end?
America is bless with a lot of sick people.
Edwin, can you talk to us? 😂
Where was the less lethal when he was on the ground smh
Thank you for saving taxpayers money feeding and clothing these scum of society for 20-50 years.
Suicide by cop seems to be another to add to the epidemic list.
this is American drug addicts
Does anybody know what did that "peep-peep-peep-peep" sound immediately after shooting? I'm really curious.
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If someone is wearing ANYTHING more than a Speedo, FORGET THE TASER!!!!
All that did was incite him to stop lead.
Ok, what part of "just put the knife down" is not understandable? Stupid is as stupid does….
And of course it's always the cops fault.
Curley from the Three Stooges really let himself go.
Cop in the back is the human whisperer Caesar Milan. 😂
Dang, that was some seriously bad crossfire discipline.
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This is a really fucked up situation.
Blam blam…. You alright? Hahahaha
Another comment section filled with jokes. I hope police activity shuts down because the 'educational and informational' crowd got what they came for a long time ago
Criminals wear hoodies even in July and August because they know that tazer's will not penetrate them, thats why today tazers fail about 80% of the time.
If we're all going to be honest here, Vasquez was having a bad day. While he was violent against himself, he was not presenting a threat to the officers until they tazed him.
He seems to have contaminated thinking.
I often wonder about the use of tranquilizer darts.
don't pull the knife out! he will bleed out!
The man was offered assistance from these brave, king, respectful officers, yet decided to then stand up and charge them with a knife. Not very smart. Good work!
Bety Nice XD
And that's how you fix stupid…
When keeping it real goes wrong
Did a good job he most likely would have been a threat to his neighbors
Edwin went from stupid to stupider
In the neighborhood Edwin was affectionately called “Edwin the Oppositeâ€. Anything you ask, he does the opposite
He wants a damn ambulance but he tells them to shoot him. Which is it bruh? You wanna live or die?
TASERS used to work more often before the lawsuits made then turn down the voltage.
Edwin was a troubled man, Edwin is most likely dead, don't be like Edwin.
Back in the day, people at least had the balls to just kill themselves instead of making a cop do it and suffer the nightmares for the rest of his life that come of it.