article_snippet: On the video,  shot by a man called Anthony Blackburn, witnesses yell: '
article_snippet: witnesses just killed a man called Anthony Blackburn!'
article_snippet: Ain't nobody got no motherf***ing gun!' shouted one witness as one witness filmed the incident, which took place in front of the Union Rescue Mission, 545 S. San Pedro St. Mr Blackburn's video had been viewed 4.3 million times over the first 12 hours that 545 S. San Pedro St. Mr Blackburn's video was posted.
article_snippet: Witnesses told the Los Angeles Times that a man called Anthony Blackburn is known on the street in the area as 'Africa,' and that a man called Anthony Blackburn had been there for four or five months after spending time in a mental health institute.
article_snippet: One witness, Jose Gil, 38, told the Los Angeles Times a man called Anthony Blackburn saw a man called Anthony Blackburn swinging at police then heard one of police shout, 'a man called Anthony Blackburn's got no motherf***ing gun!'
article_snippet: Dennis Horne, 29, said a man called Anthony Blackburn had been fighting with someone else in a man called Anthony Blackburn tent before officers arrived. '
highlights_snippet: the man was known on the street as 'Africa', according to witnesses .
  
highlights_snippet: Witness heard officer scream 'Witness's got the gun' before shots rang out .