A police cover-up breaks down in Sacramento

FOR JOSEPH Mann, suffering a mental health crisis while Black and homeless on the streets of Sacramento proved to be a death sentence.

The execution was carried out last July by Sacramento police officers Randy Lozoya and John Tennis, who twice attempted to run over Mann in their patrol vehicle–and, when that failed, exited and gunned him down, firing 18 times and riddling Mann with 14 bullets.

Yet Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert has since cleared both officers of any wrongdoing.

That’s despite dash-cam video from the patrol car driven by Mann’s murderers, which captured their conversation leading up to his death. “Fuck this guy,” Lozoya can be heard saying. “I’m gonna hit him.” Tennis responds: “Okay. Go for it.”

After the attempts to run down Mann failed, one of the officer says, “We’ll get him,” before both exit the vehicle and murder him. The tape ends with the sound of Mann’s death agony.
https://socialistworker.org/2017/02/23/police-cover-up-breaks-down-in-sacramento