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Officials: L.A. deputies shoot, kill Black man who dropped gun

By STEFANIE DAZIO "If he reached down to
Associated Press grab it, that's different,"
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Givens told the Times. "But
Angeles County sheriff's if it's on the ground, why
deputies shot and killed shoot? That means he was
Dijon Kizzee after they unarmed."
stopped the Black man on Police say the handgun
his bicycle for a traffic viola- was recovered and no
tion and he ran from them, deputies were injured. TV
punched one and then news helicopters showed a
dropped a bundle that in- gun near the body.
cluded a gun, authorities Dean, in a Monday after-
and relatives said. noon news conference,
The shooting death Mon- said investigators had not
day afternoon comes on yet interviewed witnesses
the heels of a police shoot- or reviewed any surveil-
ing in Kenosha, Wisconsin, lance or cellphone video.
that left Jacob Blake, who "Give us time to conduct
is also Black, paralyzed and our investigation," he said.
spurred days of protests, "We will get all of the facts
reinvigorating the national of this case and eventually
debate on racial injustice present them."
and policing. The Sheriff's Department
Kizzee's family and friends Protesters clash with deputies of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department during protests following the said multiple agencies are
created a small memo- death of Dijon Kizzee on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, in Los Angeles, Calif. Associated Press investigating.
rial to the 29-year-old at Fair described her nephew
the shooting scene in the The Associated Press, rela- ers. Johnson said he had violation of vehicle codes, as "a mother's child," saying
South Los Angeles area tives remembered Kizzee often warned his nephew he dropped his bike and he took care of his mother
on Tuesday, leaving flow- as an energetic young that, as a Black man, he ran. When they caught after a car crash until her
ers, balloons and candles man with many friends and had to be especially care- up to him he punched death in 2011 from a heart
just feet away from first re- expressed anger at the ful. "'You have a target one of them in the face attack. After that, he took
sponders' discarded blue shooting. "You guys take on your back, just by be- and dropped a bundle of care of his younger brother,
medical gloves and rolled care of dogs, you don't ing you,'" Johnson remem- clothes he was carrying. Sean Jones, who is 18 and
bandages. More than 100 take care of us," Kizzee's bered saying as recently as The deputies spotted a just graduated from high
protesters had marched in aunt Fletcher Fair said, ad- a few weeks ago. "He was handgun in the bundle and school.
the area the night before, dressing the sheriff's de- like, 'yeah, all right, uncle,' opened fire. Fair lives near where Kizzee
some chanting "Say his partment. "He was a sweet like he always says." "He was in possession of a was killed and couldn't be-
name" and "No justice, no and loving young man. He Sheriff's Lt. Brandon Dean firearm and did assault a lieve the circumstances sur-
peace," the Los Angeles had his whole life ahead of told the Los Angeles Times deputy," Dean said. rounding the death of her
Times reported. him and it was cut short by that investigators had not Neighborhood resident nephew.
The sheriff's department has rogue sheriffs." yet interviewed the two Arlander Givens, 68, ques- "How do you get a violation
not released Kizzee's name, Kizzee's uncle Anthony deputies involved, but he tioned why deputies fired on a bicycle?" she asked.
but two relatives confirmed Johnson, 33, recalled that gave this account: When at a man who, accord- "I stayed here until they
his identity. the two grew up together deputies tried to stop the ing to the sheriff's official, picked his body up. I didn't
In interviews Tuesday with and were as close as broth- man for riding his bicycle in wasn't holding a weapon. want to leave."q
Barr tightens rules on surveillance of political candidates

candidates for federal of- Barr is acting on an issue rant from the court. No ap-
fice or their staff members that has provoked loud plication for a candidate
and advisers. concerns from Trump’s al- or staffer may be submitted
The restrictions, announced lies, who have seized on unless the FBI director has
by Attorney General Wil- errors in the surveillance decided that a defensive
liam Barr in a pair of memos, process to attack the un- briefing is not appropriate
are part of broader chang- derpinnings of the Russia and has said so in writing.
es to the FBI’s surveillance probe even as reports from Applications must also be
procedures implemented the Justice Department’s approved by the attorney
in response to problems watchdog and the Sen- general and must include
during the 2016 investiga- ate intelligence commit- a “full and complete state-
tion into ties between Rus- tee have laid out extensive ment as to whether other
sia and President Donald contacts between Russia less intrusive investigative
Trump’s campaign. Com- and Trump associates dur- measures have been tried
ing just two months before ing the 2016 presidential and failed.”
Attorney General William Barr talks to the media during a news the presidential election, contest. The FBI had contemplat-
conference about Operation Legend, a federal task force the changes are designed One new restriction out- ed giving such “defensive
formed to fight violent crime in several cities, Wednesday, Aug. to ensure that law enforce- lined Tuesday would re- briefings” to the Trump
19, 2020, in Kansas City, Mo. ment officials have to clear quire the FBI to consider campaign in 2016 but de-
Associated Press additional hurdles before briefing a federal candi- cided against it for fear of
By ERIC TUCKER nounced new restrictions pursuing the same type of date or staffer that the compromising an ongoing
Associated Press Tuesday on how it con- surveillance as was con- person is possibly being tar- investigation, according to
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ducts any secret national ducted on a former adviser geted by a foreign power a Justice Department in-
Justice Department an- security surveillance of to Trump’s 2016 campaign. before applying for a war- spector general report.q