article_snippet: While two police detain a nearby female who picked up one of their dropped batons, another can be heard shouting: 'Drop the gun!
article_snippet: Garner, who was put in a chokehold by an officer, was heard gasping, 'I can't breathe' before an officer lost consciousness and later died.
article_snippet: as more officers pull up and order the crowds to disperse. '
article_snippet: Earl Ofari Hutchinson, head of the activist group the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, called on the Police Commission to hold special hearing on use of force by officers in Skid Row encounters.
article_snippet: Hutchinson said in a statement that the shooting 'underscores the need for the Police Commission to hold a special hearing to fully examine police tactics and training in the use of deadly force by LAPD officers involving skid row residents many of whom have major mental challenges.'
highlights_snippet: Video shows Four LAPD officers detain the man female friend and shout 'drop the gun!'
  