New Video Dispels the “Reached for My

Gun” Myth of LAPD Cops in Killing of

Homeless Man
By Matt Agorist on March 11, 2015

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Los Angeles, CA — Following the shooting of a homeless man in LA’s Skid Row last
week, controversy arose over why the three LAPD officers pulled their triggers.

Chief Charlie Beck said that the video showed ‘Africa,’ the man killed by police, reach
for a rookie officers gun. The rookie, who was just short of completing his probationary
period, can be heard yelling out, “He has my gun. He Has my gun.”

The reason that a human life was ended that day by the LAPD had everything to do with
the rookie yelling out those fateful words.

But did Africa really have this rookie’s gun? Were the officers’ lives ever at risk? Or,
did these officers gun down a man in cold blood over this rookie’s fearful mistake?

According to the LAPD, the officer’s gun was found partly cocked and jammed with a
round of ammunition in the chamber and another in the ejection port, indicating a
struggle for the weapon.

Seems believable, right?

However, the holster that this rookie officer had on makes it nearly impossible to rack
the slide while it is holstered.

From the LAPD’s images, we can see that the type of holster that the rookie was
wearing, and that the majority of police officers wear, is a Dual Retention Hooded
Holster, with optional hood guard.

The Free Thought Project spoke to former LAPD officer Alex Salazar, and he
confirmed that most, if not all of the LAPD officers use these holsters.

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This holster is specially made to prevent the exact scenario that the LAPD are claiming
happened.

The “hood,” or the strap that holds the weapon in the hard plastic holster must be
pushed down from a particular angle and then pushed forward, prior to exposing the
back of the weapon.

During a struggle, it is entirely possible that the hood could have been pushed down,
leaving the rear of the slide exposed.

However, this officer’s holster appears to be equipped with a hood guard. The hood
guard adds another entirely new level of pistol retention as it is specially designed to
prevent an assailant from pushing down the hood.

But we will give LAPD the benefit of the doubt here and say that this man was
somehow able to get past the hood guard and push down the hood while being beaten
and tasered.

However, these holsters have yet another line of retention. The third line of retention in
this officer’s holster does not allow for the pistol to be removed, nor the slide pulled
back, without knowing exactly how to lift it out of the holster.

This holster and holsters similar in design have a tension screw in place that allows for
its users to set the desired level of friction needed to remove the pistol. However, if
someone tries to pull the pistol out of the holster in any direction other than the officer’s
set preference, the slide will not rack, nor will the pistol come out.
Knowing the specific functions of this rookie officer’s holster makes believing the
official narrative on the shooting of this man hard to believe.

It is highly unlikely, if not completely impossible for a man, who is being aggressed
against by multiple police officers, to do what police say he did.

The LAPD would like the public to believe that Africa supposedly maintained his
composure and bypassed the hood guard on the officer’s pistol. After somehow
bypassing the guard, he was then able to push down the hood and slide it forward. After
this, he then was able to pull the slide back, and jam a round in the chamber, while
laying on his back, fighting for his life, with tens of thousands of volts pumping through
his body, while multiple officers beat him with batons.

Police accountability activist and friend to the Free Thought Project, Tom Zebra,
conducted a similar investigation into the officer’s holster. Below is the well-made
video by Zebra illustrating the holster’s retention properties.

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