Did Alfred Olango Intentionally Provoke Officers After His Best Friend Died?

By Bob Owens

The events surrounding the death of Alfred Olango at the hands of El Cajon (CA) Police may be one of the best cautionary tales against jumping to conclusions that we’ve ever brought you.

The initial reports verged on monstrous.

We heard that the man’s sister called police for help because her brother was having a mental health crisis. When El Cajon officers approached the man, the had a brief interaction and then shots rang out. He fell. Eyewitnesses said that he had his hands out out his side when he was shot.

A crowd began to build, chanting “hands up, don’t shoot,” before EMS could perform preliminary life-saving measures and drive him away in an ambulance.

And then the truth began to come out

An employee of the restaurant filmed the confrontation between the man and officers in the restaurant parking lot. She had what appears to be not only an unobstructed view of the encounter, but from a very useful angle, as they captured the events from the behind the officers looking at the erratic man, giving us an idea of what the El Cajon officers saw.

It was from her camera and this angle that we saw what Alfred …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms