Honolulu police chief defends cops who shot Lindani Myeni amid calls for release of all footage

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Honolulu acting deputy chief Allan Nagata defended his officers who shot and killed South African rugby player Lindani Myeni on Wednesday, saying they “did everything right” as they were in “the fight for their lives”.

According to media reports, officers from the Honolulu Police Department were forced to use lethal force when Myeni allegedly attacked them, injuring three of their officers, just after 8pm on Wednesday night.

The Myeni family lawyer James Bickerton told TimesLIVE that the Honolulu police department was “still hiding facts” about the incident. He said that they had not heard the 911 tapes nor seen the body camera footage preceding “what they chose to release”.On Saturday the Honolulu police released body camera footage from two of the three police officers who responded to a call of a burglary in progress in the Hawaiian suburb.

“It was ineffective and the suspect begins assaulting the third officer. The suspect then charges towards the first officer who then fires a single shot at the suspect,” said Nagata during a press conference aired by Hawaii News Now. Nagata admitted that the officers did not identify themselves but added, “Hey, let’s be honest, they’re in uniform, they’re coming there with police cars, and they told him, get on the ground, comply”.

“It was a moonless night and the tapes show a man having a flashlight shone in his face while a woman shouted “that's him”. Lindani likely could only see lights and hear a woman yelling to the men holding the lights and a gun,” he said.

 

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A joke! 'the fight for their lives' 3 armed policemen against 1 unarmed man...? Wow

A good lawyer would wipe the floor with cops 👮‍♂️! How do say “police” after you shot the suspect ?

BLM but not for Africans Is BLM like Apartheid ?

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What I hear the police didn't introduce themselves from beginning,they introduce then shoot immediately because black man is a suspect same here in SA some police are racist

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