While tensions remain high United States a few days after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, several cities across the country observe a major peaceful protest movement, punctuated by sometimes striking scenes of violence.
And especially looting. On Tuesday, June 2 in Los Angeles, the managers of a liquor store tried to intervene to prevent looters from acting. Suspects targeted at local station reporter Christina Gonzalez Fox 11, the gold store right across the street.
(1/3) EXCLUSIVE: A group of alleged looters square-off against business owners in Van Nuys as police converge onto the scene. The tense moments were captured live in front of our FOX 11 news camera. https://t.co/KEbNy7SnKw pic.twitter.com/ClBjejZWLx
– FOX 11 Los Angeles (@FOXLA) June 2, 2020
Local residents, black in color, assisted the liquor managers, armed with shotguns. According to the images filmed by the television crew, we see the passage of a first police patrol passing in front of the scene. It does not stop until the officers decide to turn around. This is when events will take a whole new turn.
(2/3) EXCLUSIVE: A group of alleged looters square-off against business owners in Van Nuys as police converge onto the scene. The tense moments were captured live in front of our FOX 11 news camera. https://t.co/KEbNy7SnKw pic.twitter.com/ruAjXGSeev
– FOX 11 Los Angeles (@FOXLA) June 2, 2020
The journalist tries to react. No no !
she shouts to the police. One of them asks him to calm down and rushes towards three black people lined up against a wall.
Sir, they are the owners of the shop, they protected the shop, the looters left on this side!
says Christina Gonzalez. An unlikely scene that the presenter of Fox 11. It’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen
, he says on set.
(3/3) EXCLUSIVE: A group of alleged looters square-off against business owners in Van Nuys as police converge onto the scene. The tense moments were captured live in front of our FOX 11 news camera. https://t.co/KEbNy7SnKw pic.twitter.com/ZzZNA1tJwc
– FOX 11 Los Angeles (@FOXLA) June 2, 2020
No police comments
A little later, Christina Gonzalez finds Monet, one of the people wrongly arrested during the scene. She, who lived for 37 years in the neighborhood, says at the microphone of Fox 11 what understood
this error on the part of the police.
Correction: they’re not the store owners, the store owners had the shotguns. They’ve known the store owners for a long time.
They interviewed her after. pic.twitter.com/720LALOa3Q
– QuarantineD (@DaVonTooMuch) June 2, 2020
I understand that they [les officiers] are tired. They are exhausted. We are exhausted. I’m 55, we’re tired too. It’s the same injustice that you did to us for years, to my father and my ancestors, and that you do to our young black men and young black women, including Latinos
According to CBS News , the Los Angeles police did not comment on the matter, while the images received widespread reaction on social media.
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