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Newly released body cam footage shows the shocking moment a sheriff’s deputy threatened to shoot an unarmed man as he sat in his car in South Los Angeles.
The man involved in New Year’s Eve is reportedly Feezy Lebron, a Los Angeles rapper who later posted about the incident on your Instagram account.
Lebron said he was using his cell phone while sitting in his parked car when two passing officers approached him and ordered him to get out of the vehicle.
“If you leave in this car, I’m going to shoot you,” the deputy is heard telling the rapper in the video. I’m going to make it very easy for you. If you put this car in gear, you’re taking one right in the chest.
Lebron was not arrested, but later cited for missing a license plate and later released. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday that it is investigating the incident.
Rapper Feezy Lebron identified himself as the driver sitting in his vehicle in Los Angeles on December 31 on his cell phone when two officers ordered him out and threatened to shoot.
Newly released body cam footage shows the shocking moment a sheriff’s deputy threatened to shoot an unarmed man as he sat in his car in South Los Angeles.
Lebron was not arrested, but was later cited for missing a license plate and later released
Deputies apprehended the man at 5:45 p.m. in an unincorporated area of South Los Angeles, the Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.
Video Released by the deputy body camera department shows the driver sitting in the car with the door open and another deputy next to him.
The officers order LeBron out of the vehicle and when he refuses, they tell him that if he doesn’t comply, they will arrest him and have his car towed away.
The first officer tries to physically remove him from the driver’s seat, and then the second officer tells him, ‘I’m just going to spray you.’ Get out or you’ll get sprayed,” as he points a can of pepper spray at the rapper.
When the driver reaches for the open door, apparently to close it, KTLA reported, the deputy takes out his gun, points it at him.
The deputy tells him: ‘I’m just going to spray you.’ Get out or you’ll get sprayed’, as he points a can of pepper spray at the rapper.
As the driver reaches the open door, apparently to close it, the officer points a gun at him.
The deputy tells him: You’re leaving in this car, I’m going to shoot you. I’m going to make it very easy for you: if you put this car in gear, you’ll take one right in the chest.
The deputy tells him: You’re leaving in this car, I’m going to shoot you. I’m going to make it very easy for you: if you put this car in gear, you’ll take one right in the chest.
Lebron is seen in the video sitting with both hands raised and says: ‘So you’re going to shoot me? I’m sitting in the fucking car, bro.
‘Move your hands from there and that’s it,’ the deputy tells him.
The driver finally gets out with his hands still up and handcuffed.
As he was being handcuffed, the deputy is heard telling him: ‘Unfortunately for you, you shouldn’t smoke so much weed in your car and we wouldn’t have to search you.’
While authorities did not identify Lebron as the driver, the rapper said in an Instagram post that he was the driver involved.
In the post, he identified the two officers and urged supporters: “Let’s get this guy’s face out before he gets a chance to MURDER a young black man sitting in his PARKED car…unarmed.”
“Remember they just want a reason to KILL YOU,” the post read.
While authorities did not identify Lebron as the driver, the rapper said in an Instagram post that he was the driver involved and urged fans to share the officers’ faces on social media.
Lebron is seen in the video sitting with both hands raised and says: ‘So you’re going to shoot me? I’m sitting in the fucking car, bro
While they were handcuffing him, the deputy is heard saying: ‘Unfortunately for you, you shouldn’t smoke so much weed in your car and then we wouldn’t have to search you.’
On Friday, the Sheriff’s Department confirmed that it is investigating the incident, but did not immediately say why the car was pulled over and declined to identify the driver because of the ongoing investigation.
“While the department is not making any statements related to the ongoing investigations, Sheriff (Robert) Luna has made it clear that he expects department personnel to treat all members of the public with dignity and respect, and that personnel who do not meet our training standards will be held accountable,’ the statement said.
The driver was handcuffed and put in a patrol car, but not taken into custody. Ultimately, he was cited for lack of a badge and released.