Full Coverage: LAPD shooting on skid row

Video from police body cameras disputes the Los Angeles Police Department’s account of the fatal police shooting this year of an unarmed homeless man on downtown’s skid row, according to a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in L.A.

A homeless man killed by Los Angeles police officers earlier this year on downtown’s skid row was shot six times and had methamphetamine in his system at the time of his death, according to an autopsy report.

The family of a Cameroonian man fatally shot by police on skid row filed a $20-million claim against the city Wednesday, saying officers “initiated� a struggle that ended in a “cop-created killing.�

More than two weeks after a deadly encounter between police and a homeless man on skid row, Los Angeles police officials on Thursday publicly named the sergeant and two officers who fired their weapons.

With allusions to Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, skid row activists called Thursday for an independent investigation and release of police body-camera footage in the fatal police shooting of an unarmed homeless man on skid row.

Activists denounced police and city officials Tuesday for their handling of the death of a homeless man who was shot and killed by officers on skid row.

Chanting “You can’t kill Africa,� dozens of people on Saturday marched from Los Angeles Police Department headquarters to skid row to protest the fatal police shooting of an unarmed homeless man during a struggle with officers.

Federal immigration officials said Wednesday that the homeless man shot and killed by Los Angeles police on skid row was a Cameroonian national but provided no other details about the man’s true identity.

The homeless man who was shot and killed by Los Angeles police officers Sunday on skid row was a convicted bank robber who assumed the identity of a French man to enter the United States more than 15 years ago, according to records and interviews.

Tempers flared Tuesday morning as dozens of demonstrators packed the Los Angeles Police Commission’s weekly meeting to criticize the LAPD over its fatal shooting of a homeless man on skid row.

The 39-year-old man shot dead by Los Angeles police officers on skid row Sunday was convicted 15 years ago of an armed robbery at a Thousand Oaks bank and sent to federal prison, according to records and law enforcement sources.

After surviving a decade on the fetid, garbage-strewn streets of skid row, Otis Williams can barely contain his anger when he eyes a passing LAPD cruiser and its italicized motto: “To protect and to serve.�

It began like so many other arguments on the sorrowful pavement of Los Angeles’ skid row.

An enhanced version of a video recording of L.A. police officers fatally shooting a homeless man on skid row Sunday appears to show the man’s hand reaching in the direction of an officer’s waistband.

Los Angeles police officials say a homeless man was shot dead on skid row Sunday during a struggle for an officer’s gun.

Mayor Eric Garcetti said the shooting death of a homeless man by Los Angeles police officers happened in a “fast-moving situation� and asked the public to withhold judgment until an investigation is completed.

An officer-involved shooting on Los Angeles’ skid row has captured nationwide attention with cellphone video that shows the incident.

The officer-involved shooting Sunday on skid row that left a man dead could be an early test of the Los Angeles Police Department’s new body camera program for officers.

The fatal shooting of a homeless man by Los Angeles police Sunday morning is once again focusing attention on officer-involved shootings.

Authorities said Sunday night that Los Angeles police fatally shot a man on skid row during a struggle over an officer’s weapons.