The three Honolulu police officers who fatally shot Lindani Myeni will not be charged as the prosecuting attorney claims Myeni attacked the officers before the shooting.
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Prosecutor Steven S. Alm made the announcement on Wednesday claiming the charges will not be filed against the three officers because Myeni refused to comply and attacked them. As we previously reported, Myeni was shot on April 14 when officers arrived at a neighbor’s home after receiving a 911 call stating he entered the wrong house. Surveillance footage shows Myeni acknowledging the mistake and quickly apologized to the residents in the home.
Shortly after, the officers arrived at the home where one of them pointed a gun at Myeni. Allegedly, he attacked the officer before he was shot three times and the officers only identified themselves after the shooting.
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Alm claims that race did not play a role in the shooting but the family’s lawyers will not accept his decision. They said in a statement that Alm “did not address whether it was lawful for Mr. Myeni to defend himself from the unknown assailant with a gun. Without that analysis, the rest of his analysis can have no weight.”
“The big question was whether Mr. Myeni knew they were officers, and not a private security detail of the hysterical 911 caller standing behind them who had, just minutes before, falsely pretended to report a ‘break in’ to someone. We know that Lindani said ‘Who are you?’ at least twice.”
SOURCE: ABC News