05-08-2014, 10:52 AM
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An official police statement regarding the incident read, ?The suspect failed to surrender and after officers observed him reaching for his waist band, an officer-involved shooting occurred.?
The video clearly refutes the official story, as Conoscenti?s hands are nowhere near his waistband and are clearly empty at the time of the shots.
?Reaching for the waistband? is a standard trope in American police newspeak, invoked mechanically whenever the police shoot someone who was unarmed.
One 2011 study reported by the Los Angeles Times found that almost half of ?waistband? shootings involving Los Angeles county sheriff?s deputies involved unarmed people.
The ?reaching for the waistband? story takes advantage of the fact that the police themselves are usually the only surviving witnesses to such shootings. In the rare cases where a video surfaces, a glimpse is offered of the ugly reality.
After the ?reaching for the waistband? story was exposed as false in relation to Conoscenti, officials replaced it with an equally dubious story: that a police officer fired a ?non-lethal? bean bag at Conoscenti, which other officers misunderstood as live fire.
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After the shooting, one of the onlookers can be heard repeating, ?Are you kidding me?? Around a minute and a half passes before anyone approaches Conoscenti?s body after the shooting, to the dismay of the onlookers. Then police officers can be seen approaching, and instead of providing first aid, they roughly handcuff Conoscenti.
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