US police shoot homeless man dead in Los Angeles

A video has captured the moment US police shot and killed a homeless man during an altercation at a homeless camp in central Los Angeles.
The graphic film shows a violent struggle between the man and several officers in the city's Skid Row area.
Police say that three officers opened fire after the man tried to grab a gun from an officer.
The dead man, known on the street as Africa, had been homeless after treatment for mental illness.
Skid Row has a large homeless population.
The LA police department said officers had been responding to reports of a robbery and had attempted to use a Taser to subdue the suspect but he had "continued fighting and resisting".
No other gun was recovered at the scene, LA police commander Andrew Smith said.
Last year, highly publicised killings of black men sparked weeks of protests in the US.
Hours after the latest shooting, the hash tag #LAPDShooting was trending on Twitter in the LA area.
"As if the homeless aren't victims enough due to economic violence/marginalization, we have cops to shoot them point blank. Ugh," wrote one tweeter.

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Police union spokesman: "It didn't happen like the film shows..."    

"Then the officer was given a three-week paid vacation...er, um, paid leave pending investigation."

--Famous words ending each news clip.  

NO DOUBT if a bystander hadn't recorded this unjustified beating and killing on their smartphone, then those cops would have planted a gun near his hand. Unfortunately for them, there were plenty of witnesses on hand for what actually unfolded, as well..

ADD this police-sanctioned murder to those others in the USA in recent weeks; and the cold-blooded unnecessary killings_by_police down here in Sydney, and over in England and Europe in-between ~ and some Police and politicians wonder still why so many police forces are increasingly 'on the nose" ?    

It is very ironic and sad the way police deny evidence
If there was video footage of someone else the idea of it didn't happen like you can clearly see it happening on film would not be acceptable to the police officers.