Less than 10 seconds after officers opened the door, police shot Yong Yang in his parents’ Koreatown home while he was holding a knife during a bipolar episode.

Less than 10 seconds after officers opened the door, police shot Yong Yang in his parents’ Koreatown home while he was holding a knife during a bipolar episode.

Parents in Los Angeles’ Koreatown called for mental health help in the middle of their son’s bipolar episode this month. Clinical personnel showed up — and so did police shortly after.

Police fatally shot Yong Yang, 40, who had a knife in his hand, less than 10 seconds after officers opened the door to his parents’ apartment where he had locked himself in, newly released bodycam video shows.

Now the parents of Yang, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder around 15 years ago, have told NBC News exclusively that they are disputing part of the account captured on bodycam, in which police recount a clinician’s saying Yang was violent before the shooting on May 2.

    • Wasp@sh.itjust.works
      211·
      7 months ago

      If you have a pit with a hundred snakes, and only two of them are aggressive and venomous, would you climb into that pit?

      I sure as hell wouldn’t

      It doesn’t matter if there are good cops, the few bad cops ruin all of them because it’s a dice roll who you get.

      • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee
        21·
        7 months ago

        If you have 100 doctors and 2 of them are incompetent would you never go to hospital? Trusting any unknown person is a dice roll.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      71·
      7 months ago

      They aren’t literally saying anything about the marriage status of anyone’s parents. More that cops are all offensive or disagreeable persons