Edit: Just finished watching the video. I wish they would release the video of Banko lunging with the knife.
[MENTION=849]jmdrake[/MENTION]
Banko was unarmed.
Banko was retreating.
Banko had stolen less that $1000 worth of goods, which in California and San Fran, is a third class misdemeanor.
Banko was put into a chokehold prior to being shot.
Banko's adversary was not charged by a leftist DA.
Banko was a member of politically protected class.
Neely and Banko were both killed by men with, presumably, training in the use of deadly force.
Yet one is having the book thrown at him and the other walks away.
Why is that, Capt. Ron?
https://rumble.com/embed/v2le1em/?pub=4
Shocking footage shows moment SF Walgreens security guard fatally shoots alleged trans activist shoplifter
https://nypost.com/2023/05/16/san-f...ty-guard-fatally-shooting-alleged-shoplifter/
By David Propper
May 16, 2023 12:45am Updated
A shocking surveillance video released Monday by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office shows the moment a Walgreens security guard shot and killed an alleged shoplifter.
The footage was made public by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins as she defended her decision not to go forward with charges against security guard Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony in the April 27 death of 24-year Banko Brown.
Jenkins said Anthony was defending himself when he shot Brown at a Walgreens in downtown San Francisco.
The footage shows Anthony, a licensed guard since 2012, step in to stop Brown from leaving the store with a bag of items before Anthony begins to repeatedly punch the suspected shoplifter.
After the two struggle for several seconds, Anthony puts Brown in a chokehold and forces him to the floor, where the pair stay for a few moments as store patrons casually walk past them.
The guard eventually lets Brown up and the alleged thief picks up the bag and walks toward the door, footage shows.
Brown then turns around on his way out and appears to make a move toward Anthony, who lifts his gun and shoots Brown once.
Anthony said in a police interview he instructed Brown to put the items back and claimed Brown was the aggressor who fought to keep the items.
The security guard told police that Brown kept threatening to stab him after he told the man to calm down while the two were tussling.
Anthony said he let go of Brown, but drew his gun and pointed it at the floor in case Brown launched at him.
He said he shot Brown when the suspect made a move to charge toward him, realizing when it was too late that Brown would just spit at him.
Brown did not have a knife on him.
Jenkins said there was nothing to disprove Anthony’s claim of self-defense and urged residents not to rely on the video of the shooting alone to form their opinion.
“There will be a temptation, as human beings, to only view the video footage of this incident and nothing else,” Jenkins said. “We are accustomed to seeing videos online, and that often is what captures our attention rather than going the extra step to look deeper.”
She said it was important for people to also review witness and police reports rather than just rely on the footage, which had no sound.
The criticism over the lack of prosecution only continued Monday. Brooke initially discharged the case on May 1.
Supervisor Shamann Walton said in a statement that Banko was “executed.”
“Where is the perceived threat?” Walton said.
The nonprofit that Brown, a trans man who struggled with homelessness, worked at also slammed Jenkins.
“We do not need to see the video to know that Banko Brown’s killing was unjustified. Armed force is not a justified response to poverty,” Julia Arroyo, the Young Women’s Freedom Center co-executive director, said in a statement Monday.
“We must live with the sobering reality that he was killed for no other cause but $14.”
The California city has been besieged by heartbreaking homelessness and rampant shoplifting.
