Less than 10 seconds after officers opened the door, police shot Yong Yang in his parents’ Koreatown home while he was holding a knife during a bipolar episode.
Parents in Los Angeles’ Koreatown called for mental health help in the middle of their son’s bipolar episode this month. Clinical personnel showed up — and so did police shortly after.
Police fatally shot Yong Yang, 40, who had a knife in his hand, less than 10 seconds after officers opened the door to his parents’ apartment where he had locked himself in, newly released bodycam video shows.
Now the parents of Yang, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder around 15 years ago, have told NBC News exclusively that they are disputing part of the account captured on bodycam, in which police recount a clinician’s saying Yang was violent before the shooting on May 2.
If you have 100 doctors and 2 of them are incompetent would you never go to hospital? Trusting any unknown person is a dice roll.
Doctors are held to a higher degree than our police officers are, so yes. I’d take my chances with getting those two incompetent doctors.
Expecially since if I’m unhappy with my care, I can choose a different one.
Can I do that with a police officer?
No, no I cannot.
Even if something goes wrong with that doctor, if I’m still alive, I’ll be able to take action against them, taking action against a police officer?
Goodluck.