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Perhaps more evidence will emerge in the coming days if the police officers were wearing body cameras. President Barack Obama signed an executive order proposing that $75 million be allocated to buy body cameras for 50,000 police officers following the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager shot and killed by former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson last year.

The Skid Row police shooting comes as the President’s Task Force on 21st-Century Policing issued its report Monday saying “there should be independent investigations of deadly police shootings.”

“In order to restore and maintain trust, this independence is crucial,” the report said.

The report also suggests that police departments build better relationships with the communities they serve and police officers should also have better training, specifically on how to resolve potentially dangerous situations.

Meanwhile, Skid Row is the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood where an estimated 1,700 homeless people live in tents and cardboard shelters. Social service workers say many of the homeless men and women suffer from mental illness.

Dennis Horne, 29, told reporters that Africa had been fighting with someone else in his tent before officers arrived.

“It’s sad,” Horne said. “There’s no justification to take somebody’s life.”

I wish more police officers felt the same way.

What do you think?

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