Video After The Jump
Another cop shooting is grabbing the nation's attention.
25-year old Lavall Hall was fatally shot by Miami Gardens police officer Eddo Trimino on February 15. The dashcam footage was just released on Wednesday, April 9, by Hall's family.
Police were initially called to the scene by Hall's mother, Catherine Daniels, who wanted help getting her son in a mental hospital. Unlike other cases involving white officers killing African Americans, Daniels stressed this shooting had more to to with the police officer's lack of training in dealing with the mentally ill.
Catherine Daniels (center) speaks on her son, Lavall Hall's, shooting by cop in Miami Gardens
When police arrived on the scene Hall was reportedly in his underwear and waving a broomstick. Officer Trimino can be heard commanding Hall, who can't be seen in the video, to "get on the ground or you're dead," before firing his weapon five times, striking Hall in the arm and stomach area, killing him.
“After seeing the video it’s clear to me that the incident was avoidable,” Eric Pettus, an executive board member for the NAACP in Miami-Dade, told the Miami Herald. “This was a call that was a mental health issue.”
Hall’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit last month in federal court in Miami against the city of Miami Gardens.
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