{"id":366,"date":"2012-03-30T19:57:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2012-03-30T19:57:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:57:35","slug":"police-shoot-unarmed-black-teenager-kendrec-mcdade-then-blame-death-on-person-who-called-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Police shoot unarmed black teenager Kendrec McDade, then blame death on person who called 911"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kendrec<\/p>\n

Kendrec McDade, 19, was fatally shot by Pasadena police on March 24th after being suspected of armed robbery.<\/p>\n

Oscar Carrillo, 26, returned to his car from a taco truck on Saturday night when he found McDade and another man going through the contents of his car,\u00a0the Pasadena Sun reported<\/a>. The men fled, and Carrillo called the police. In his phone call, Carrillo said that the men pointed a gun at him.<\/p>\n

“Two guys … just put a gun in my face,” the caller said,\u00a0according to the Los Angeles Times<\/a>. He said the two men had stolen his laptop.<\/p>\n

Pasadena Police Lt. Phlunte Riddle told the Sun that officers then found McDade and shot at him after he appeared to reach into his waistband.<\/p>\n

But police never found a gun on McDade.<\/p>\n

Carrillo later told police that he lied about seeing a gun so that officers would respond to his call faster\u00a0police told the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As a result, Carrillo was arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Carrillo emphatically indicated a gun was involved … that is very important. It sets the platform for the mind-set of the responding officers,” Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez said at a news conference, according to the LA Times.<\/p>\n

McDade had been a star football player at Azusa High School.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a good kid who was never in trouble,” his former coach told the Sun. The paper also found that he had no criminal record.<\/p>\n

An attorney for McDade’s family argued that police should also take responsibility for the death.<\/p>\n

“They can’t blame the caller because they shot an unarmed black man<\/span>,” Caree Harper, the McDade family attorney, told the AP. “He didn’t pull the trigger and the officers can use discretion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kendrec McDade, 19, was fatally shot by Pasadena police on March 24th after being suspected of armed robbery. Oscar Carrillo, 26, returned to his car from a taco truck on Saturday night when he found McDade and another man going through the contents of his car,\u00a0the Pasadena Sun reported. The men fled, and Carrillo called<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-talk-on-politics","tag-racist-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}