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Alfred Olango: Mentally ill man was holding a vape pen when officers fatally shot him | |
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Alfred Olango, the mentally ill black man who was fatally shot by El Cajon police, was holding a vape pen while he was shot by an officer, authorities announced on Wednesday. | |
This morning protesters lined up outside the city’s police department calling for a federal investigation into the police shooting. The US Justice Department answered the call late Wednesday night and announced that they are investigating the fatal police shooting. | |
Mr Olango's sister can be heard in cellphone footage telling officers that she called to get her brother help. She says she should have called a crisis communication team. | |
“Don’t you guys have a crisis communication team to talk to somebody mentally sick?” she asks. “Why couldn’t you tase him? Why, why, why, why?” | |
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