A Change of Guard

សូមស្តាប់វិទ្យុសង្គ្រោះជាតិ Please read more Khmer news and listen to CNRP Radio at National Rescue Party. សូមស្តាប់វីទ្យុខ្មែរប៉ុស្តិ៍/Khmer Post Radio.
Follow Khmerization on Facebook/តាមដានខ្មែរូបនីយកម្មតាម Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/khmerization.khmerican

Friday 27 July 2012

Witnesses: Officer Shot Man In Philadelphia Without Warning, From Inside Car

Posted: Jul 26, 2012 
myfoxphilly.com
Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29
PHILADELPHIA -Tensions are high between Philadelphia police and Cambodian residents in Olney following a police-involved shooting.
Exclusive video obtained by FOX 29 News was taken seconds after 24-year-old Vanna Sok was fatally shot by police.
It was 1 a.m. on July 15 when a nearby camera shows a red SUV pulling up to the corner of Second Street and Nedro Avenue.  A short confrontation turns to gunfire. People scatter.
Sok, who had a registered gun, fired back at the SUV.
What happens next just off camera isn't shown, but witnesses say an officer nearby fired his weapon at Sok from inside the passenger seat of his police car and shot without any warning.
"I seen the cop shoot him from inside the car," said Thearack Kith, one of Sok's friends. " He didn't get outside. He didn't say, 'Freeze, put your hands up, drop your weapons.' He didn't say anything."
Chaotic cell phone video from the ground was taken at the scene, seconds after Sok was shot. It shows police officers pulling Sok's body away into a transport van.

"I looked up at him, and that's when he got hit. And he fell. He had his back to the cop," said Chan Sok, the victim's cousin.
Police said soon after the shooting that the officers got out of their cruiser, Sok turned around and pointed his gun at police, and that's when he was shot in the head.
Authorities added that the situation that night quickly grew into an all-out melee. Officers called for back-up several times, and a stun gun had to be used on one person in the crowd.
Since then, the shooting has continued to touched off more tension.
Friends and family say they've been harassed by police officers at Sok's memorial.
Police, on the other hand, say they've had credible threats about cops getting killed.
On Wednesday night, high-ranking members of the police department met with community leaders. Both sides said the meeting was a good first step toward easing tensions in the community.
The shooting investigation is now in the hands of the police department's internal affairs bureau and the district attorney's office.
Police couldn't talk about the shooting investigation Wednesday, but they promised to investigate the harassment claims.
"I personally take that serious, as well as the entire police department," Deputy Police Commissioner Thomas Wright said. "So, we're not going to tolerate any improper behavior by police officers. And so, we're here to hear their concerns and, if there's anything we need to do that needs to be corrected, we'll ensure that it happens."
FOX 29's Chris O'Connell had the exclusive video in his report Wednesday night, and FOX 29's Steve Keeley was continuing to work the story Thursday morning at Second and Nedro.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Stop police brutality and cover up.Stop harassment and racist against minority.We all people should be treated with respect.

Anonymous said...

I was a victim of police harassment, they raid my house and point their gun at my face while we were sitting having dinner...They treat us like while animal...Screaming Yelling at us! Latter on they appology for their mistaken..Wrong house?

Anonymous said...

correction=wild animals

Anonymous said...

This country full hatred toward minority nowaday...Policemen are nasty!

Anonymous said...

Shoot them back if your life is threaten. Don't let them killed you just like an animal.

Anonymous said...

Just beleive me, those state employee-law enforcemnets can do the wrongs thing, but the US government will not send them to the hell or back to where they are coming.

Anonymous said...

When you go to the court for the damn ticket or something, the policemen there are so nasty, they look and treat you like dirt when asking them a godamn simple questions...Man!

Anonymous said...

When Police pull you over traffic stop, your ticket will be higher than white folks,,,