Newly launched video from the Los Angeles Police Division on Monday reveals how a confrontation final month between a plainclothes vice officer and an unarmed 18-year-old resulted in a deadly taking pictures.
The household of Ricardo “Ricky” Ramirez Jr. lately introduced they had been asking the state prosecutor to file legal prices. They plan to sue the town for wrongful demise.
Round 10:25 p.m. on July 13, Ramirez was in a silver Cadillac with three different occupants, all carrying ski masks. Sgt. Michael Kilos started to observe them. Authorities believed they had been “in a doable dispute with the motive force of one other automobile,” based on a launch from the division.
The video reveals the Cadillac blocking a Toyota Camry at 66th and Figueroa streets. All 4 of the Cadillac’s occupants get out, surrounding the Camry. Different automobiles behind the Camry start to again up earlier than it speeds away.
“Comply with that automotive as a result of they had been all masked up. Comply with that automotive. Comply with that automotive,” one officer says over radio site visitors. There’s a name for a marked police officer to tug the Cadillac over.
As an alternative, Kilos — who was initially conducting a prostitution enforcement element alongside Figueroa Road in South L.A. — adopted the Cadillac 10 blocks with out lights or sirens till it stopped, blocking each lanes of site visitors on the 400 block of 66th Road close to the intersection with Flower Road.
Video reveals Ramirez get out of the Cadillac and run towards the motive force’s-side door of Kilos’ unmarked automobile. Instantly, Kilos fires via the window, taking pictures Ramirez within the chest. Ramirez falls to the bottom, crawls away and collapses on the street.
Officers arrive and handcuff Ramirez earlier than calling for an ambulance and beginning CPR.
Police stated in a July 18 assertion that two passengers exited the Cadillac and approached Kilos’ automobile from both facet, however solely Ramirez is seen within the video.
“It’s a mother or father’s worst nightmare to listen to their youngster has been killed, now seeing the video the horror worsens: Ricky was shot in chilly blood with each of his fingers outstretched with clearly no gun,” Ramirez’s father, Ricardo Ramirez Sr., stated in a press release.
“I noticed my boy introduced into this world and, horribly, I noticed him taken out of this world by a trigger-happy cop,” Ramirez’s mom, Renee Villalobos, stated in the identical assertion.
The household’s legal professional, Christopher Dolan, stated there was no motive for Kilos to shoot, and the officer by no means introduced himself as regulation enforcement. It was a “case of shoot and ask questions later,” Dolan stated.
“We’ll vigorously prosecute this case to carry Ricky and his household justice,” the legal professional stated.
The incident remains to be underneath investigation, based on the LAPD.
