A man was convicted Wednesday of being involved in a March 2017 murder in Los Angeles and then shooting at police and wounding a SWAT officer who was struck in the hip following a pursuit when authorities tried to arrest him nearly three months later.
Jurors deliberated about five days before returning their verdict Monday on 13 counts in the trial of Qasim Knox, with the verdict being read Tuesday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.
The panel acquitted the 33-year-old defendant of the most serious charge of first-degree murder, instead finding him guilty of the lesser count of second-degree murder for the March 31, 2017, killing of Whitney Henry Yorke in rival gang territory, along with acquitting him of one count of attempted murder involving two Los Angeles Police Department SWAT officers, including the wounded officer, and finding him guilty of the lesser charge of attempted voluntary manslaughter.
Jurors also found Knox guilty of assault with a semiautomatic firearm against the two LAPD SWAT officers, one count of attempted murder involving three Hawthorne police officers who also responded June 29, 2017, to the scene near the Hawthorne-El Segundo border, three counts of assault with a firearm against the three Hawthorne officers, one count each of shooting at an inhabited dwelling and shooting at an unoccupied vehicle and three counts of possession of a firearm by a felon.
Knox’s attorney, Jovan Blacknell, told jurors that his client’s older brother and his 13-year-old best friend were killed by police during separate traffic stops, arguing that Knox “very overtly gives up” and throws one of two guns when he realized police wanted to stop him.
The defense lawyer contended that his client thought he was going to surrender and was then shot at by the officers.
“Once the shooting happens … it’s a fight or flight. … To Mr. Knox, the officers were coming to kill him,” Blacknell said. “If Mr. Knox was of the mindset `I’m going to have a shootout with these officers,’ he doesn’t leave eight bullets in his gun.”
Knox was struck three times by police gunfire, according to his attorney.
Deputy District Attorney Stephen Lonseth disputed the defense’s contention that Knox was trying to surrender when he fled from the vehicle, calling it a “complete fantasy.”
“He was on the run for a murder and he was going to do anything he could” to escape, the prosecutor told jurors in his final argument, adding that the officers were doing everything they could to defend themselves.
“There is no self-defense in this case. … This isn’t about some PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder),” the prosecutor said.
Knox streamed part of the incident on Facebook Live with a gun in his hand, saying, “They’re about to kill me. … They got me.”
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office’s Justice System Integrity Division subsequently reviewed the shooting of Knox, concluding that LAPD SWAT officers and Hawthorne police officers “acted lawfully in self-defense, in the defense of others and in pursuit of a fleeing felon when they used deadly force” against him.
The two LAPD SWAT officers “were under fire from him and justified” in firing at him and that three Hawthorne police officers who encountered Knox “were also fired upon prior to reasonably returning fire in self-defense and defense of each other,” according to a July 2019 memorandum from the District Attorney’s Office.
Knox is facing multiple life terms in state prison, according to the prosecutor. Sentencing is set July 18 before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench.
Knox’s attorney said he believes that his client has been wrongly portrayed as if he was “a monster.”
“I don’t think that’s an accurate description of him at all,” Blacknell said after the verdict. “He was a deeply traumatized person.”
Just goes to show how incompetent anybody is even at the SWAT Department of the police department. None of you ever graduated from the Law Enforcement Academy so none of you haven’t education or a job even with 40 Years of servitude without graduating from the police academy you got nothing but trash man and the most lousiest disrespect to the nation.
Drug Dealer Task Force!
Hate, Greed, Corruption, Lust, Death, Lies, Discrimination!
100% Government Mutiny!
1000% Cyberfraud & Treason!
You do have to understand that this is for every Department across the United States of America.
Whether that be the police department the Sheriff’s Department fire department or the ambulance services of the State of California as well As The United States of America!!!!
$30 Million A Day $1500.00 Hour
10.4 trillion dollars Each department of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Times 109 Cities =
$1,133,600,000,000.00
1100 E-Trillion Dollars A Year!
Then the captain of the Police Department pulls in $507,000.00 Times 109 Cities = $55,232,000.00
And this has been going on since 1995 now you can see why the world is so fucking broke.
Allied Universal ,Golden West Security Services,
And you pay your security outfit in the state of California $900 a day to follow my dick around the fucking state right. After you’re making $300 an hour and 50 grand every 72-hour shift how you pull in three quarters of a million dollars just on a monthly basis and you want to tell me I’m the criminal because I have an education in law
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But to find one of the uneducated law enforcement in the United States of America with a non-commissioned license that’s not broke it’s very rare because each and every one of them was 50 million dollars in the Bank, Broken and looking for the next paycheck.
Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that a violation has occurred, the Attorney General, for or in the name of the United States, may in a civil action obtain appropriate equitable and declaratory relief to eliminate the pattern or practice.
Types of misconduct covered include, among other things: Excessive Force, Discriminatory Harassment, False Arrest, Coercive Sexual Conduct, Unlawful Stops, Searches, or Arrests. And only if he feels that there’s a violation. “IF” is the Word.
Now you can understand why them cocaine head are sitting in the captain chair, Snorting 60 million worth of cocaine. How is probably the first time he’s had any kind of money in his pocket since he came across the border.
Hell I was told that’s the only place that will not educate a human being across the border.
What they didn’t find in the train derailment on the 25 and 2020 out there in between Palm Springs and Blythe they all died in the boat explosion in Cancun Sea. 2020
And here’s another family member.
Firefighters also located one victim of the blaze, an elderly man, inside the home. Neighbors identified him as Will Rothschild, hailing from the wealthy Rothschild family. Law enforcement is yet to confirm his identity, reported ABC7 News.
There’s 55 LAPD Locations & 54 Los Angeles Sheriff Department’s Times 109 Cities in the County! For a 96 billion dollars budget for each department. Equals
10.424 Trillion Dollars A Year Times 109 Department’s
Equals out to. 1133 Trillion Dollars A Year just for Law Enforcement in Los Angeles County!
1133 times 3,143 Counties in the United States of America for a total for an idiot is $3.561019E14
The United States has a total of 3,143 counties and county equivalents, serving as crucial units of local government. The number of counties varies across states due to factors like historical settlement patterns, geographical size, and population distribution
We don’t have the ability to make $21 an hour .
I make 30 cents a day.
They make $300.00 Hour / $550 Hour OT
Who the Drug Dealers????
E- Trillions Yearly. Since 1995
Bone Island of Skid Row!
Catalina Island, CA.
Always a new guest with every boat Full
And now Cher’s Whole Family has been confirmed!
Dead by Boat Sanking in Cancun in 2020
As Well as Every Celebrity in the World Are Dead.
They Said that Cher was Eaten in Half in Acapulco 2020 with Rest of the Family were All Eaten in Half because somebody Sliced them Before Entering Sea Of Cancun!
At some point you have to understand you’ve been brainwashed for this this long up to this point because of the fact that the world has to destroy the nation long before it can do anything in the world because this used to be the United States of America the land of the brave and the home of the free. And 1855, the British sacked the White House and burnt it to the fucking ground and America was lost at that point because it became the Land of the Dead in the home of the corruption. Where I feel that we can all learn from my mistakes to set the better path forward as the global Federation of many nations of many galaxies. Where we learn from our past mistakes so we don’t have to get burnt for them