El Cajon police say black man was holding vape smoking device in hand when officers fatally shot him
An image from cellphone video of a deadly confrontation between two El Cajon police officers and a man whose sister says she told them he was mentally ill. (El Cajon Police Department)
Veronica Rocha, Sarah Parvini and Richard Winton
Just moments after an African American man was shot and killed by El Cajon police Tuesday, his sister was captured in an eyewitness video as she wept and screamed at officers, saying she told authorities her brother was mentally ill.
In the video posted on YouTube (some explicit language), the man’s sister said she told officers he was sick and needed help. She said she called police three times but instead should have called a “crisis communication team.”
“Don’t you guys have a crisis communication team to talk to somebody mentally sick?” she asked an officer.
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