Diaz Zeferino moments before being executed by Gardena Police. Despicable.
Sigh.
Shit.
Fuck.
Motherfucker.
God damn.
Son of a bitch.
These are the words that come to my mind as I see the video that Gardena, California, police fought for two years to hide from all of us. They murdered Diaz Zeferino.
They executed a good man in cold blood, paid his family $4.7 million, cleared all of the officers involved, and then hoped we would never see the horror of what they did.
Thank you to the Los Angeles Times for fighting tirelessly to get this video, posted below, released.
Beyond shooting and killing a man in cold blood, it turns out that Diaz Zeferino wasn't even who they were looking for. He was helping a friend search for a stolen bicycle. Being the brown man he is, police assumed he stole it.
He didn't. Now he's dead and word is that these officers are already back on the street.