Video came up Sunday morning from police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and shot a black man in the back when he got into a car.
Witnesses told the Kenosha News that the man was just trying to break up a fight between two women. Video posted online shows him running to a car, followed by police, and opening the driver’s side door.
One cop grabbed him by the back of the T-shirt and at least one open fire. A fusillade of shots was heard as bystanders wrote in horror.
A Kenosha Police Department spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Police said in a brief statement that the man was taken alive to a Milwaukee hospital and was in serious condition.
A state bureau is investigating the shooting.
The incident comes two days after a Black man was shot dead by police in Lafayette, Louisiana, as he was leaving officers – another confrontation that was captured on video.
Cops fired 11 bullets at Trayford Pellerin outside a gas station while responding to a report of a disturbance in which a man was stabbed.
Lafayette police said Pellerin ran away from her as she approached to arrest him and was not stopped by a Taser.
“They did my brother wrong,” Treneca Pellerin wrote on Facebook.
The NAACP and the ACLU decided to shoot Pellerin, and his family is represented by Ben Crump, the civil rights lawyer who handled the cases of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
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