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Exclusive: Video Shows LAPD Handcuffing Teen After Fatal Shooting

HeadlineAug 12, 2016

In news from Los Angeles, Democracy Now! has obtained video from the aftermath of the police killing of 14-year-old Mexican American Jesse Romero, who died earlier this week. Police say they were responding to a call about teenagers writing graffiti in the L.A. neighborhood of Boyle Heights. Police say they shot and killed Romero after he ran away from police and fired a gun. But witnesses contradict the police’s claim. The video, which begins just after the shooting, shows officers standing over the boy’s body on the sidewalk and then handcuffing him. Jesse Romero was a student at Hollenbeck Middle School. He would have turned 15 on August 24.

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