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Default Unarmed elderly man with dementia killed by police in Calif.

Bod was thinking very hard :
Yet another unarmed man killed by police.

Police in Bakersfield, Calif., found a crucifix on an unarmed 73-year-old
retiree with dementia shot dead by an officer, after police said the man
ignored their requests to remove his hands from his jacket.

"During a search of Mr. Serna a dark-colored simulated woodgrain crucifix was
recovered," read a statement from the Bakersfield Police Department. "Mr.
Serna was not armed at the time of the shooting. No firearm has been
recovered."

Serna has never carried a gun and was opposed to firearms, Serna's son, Frank
Serna, told KGET. "I don't know what led police to believe he had a gun,"
Frank Serna said.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...e-ca/95399066/


The rest of the story reads like suicide by cop. It makes me wonder if
he was really suffering from dementia or it was just suggested by
family that he was. Maybe this sort of thing will come out in the
investigation that is sure to follow. Until it does or doesn't,
speculate all you want, I trust your 'reporting' as much as I do
Burford's.