Sandy Elementary School Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut

In a recent article by Wesley Lowery in Los Angeles Times news entitled "Family of man shot by sheriff's deputies calls for FBI probe," Lowery informs that an IngleWood man was shot down by a sheriff deputy this month, requesting an FBI probe of the shooting.

"Jose de la Trinidad, 36, was shot and killed by deputies Nov. 10, just minutes after leaving his niece's quinceanera with his older brother." According to the article, Trinidad had just left his nieces and was caught by police when he over speed after his brother had been pulled over by another cop. With the fear of getting in trouble with the sheriff, avoided any confrontations and fled as quickly as possible, but in the 1900 block of East 122nd Street in Willowbrook, he finally stopped.

"After police attempted to pull the older brother over for speeding, he sped off. After pleading with his brother to stop, Jose de la Trinidad was let out of the car in the 1900 block of East 122nd Street in Willowbrook, family members said." When he finally got out of the car, he was unarmed. Although he had no kind of weapon visible with him, he was shot to death by deputies. The police men thought that Trinidad had some kind of weapon with him when he aimed for his waistband and took a very risky action when they shot the man down.

"The slain man's family, however, said that a 19-year-old woman who witnessed the shooting from her bedroom window reported that she saw De la Trinidad with his hands behind his head before shots were fired." This was clearly sign of surrender, but instead they gunned him down. According to eye witness, Trinidad stopped at the scene, got out of the car, and moved his arms behind his head, not towards his waist. Deputies that were in the scene had forced many witnesses to change their stories.

It seems that there are many stories that I hear of like this when police men are not doing their job by following the rules that they are to abide to. I remember a story that I've heard of like this. A man was shot down just because they accused him of owning a weapon when he had no possesion of it.

Family and friends had set up a memorial for Jose de la Trinidad at Wells Fargo Bank. The father of two daughters will never have that father figure to help them grow up to young adults. The widow is very much upset and depressed that this had happened to her family but will continue to raise their children together.