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A 20-year-old rapper was fatally shot by California police officers while he was sleeping in his car outside a Taco Bell. Six Vallejo officers fired “multiple rounds” at the man, who has been identified as Willie McCoy. According to the police department, McCoy had a handgun when officers fired out of “fear for their own safety.”

Earlier this week McCoy family said the police racially profiled the rapper and there was no justification for using deadly force against someone who was sleeping and not a threat The Guardian reported.

“There was no attempt to try to work out a peaceful solution,” McCoy’s older brother Marc McCoy, told the Guardian. “The police’s job is to arrest people who are breaking the law – not take the law into your own hands. You’re not judge, jury, and executioner… We’re never going to get over this.”

Police said officers were responding to a call after a Taco Bell employee called 911 and said a man was “slumped over” in his car at the restaurant last Saturday at approx. 10:30 p.m. The police said McCoy was unresponsive and had a gun on his lap. Also mentioning the door were locked and the car was on. Then after calling for backup police said McCoy “suddenly” moved.

Police claim they told McCoy to “keep his hands visible” but that he “quickly moved his hands downward for the firearm.”

Six officers fired shots within about four seconds, but they did not disclose the number of bullets that hit McCoy. The officers continued shouting commands before removing him from the vehicle and “rendering medical assistance”. McCoy died on the scene.

McCoy’s cousin David Harrison said,“ No one trusts the police in Vallejo. We are being targeted… Police have a campaign of executing young black men who fit a certain profile. Willie dressed the part. He represents hip-hop music. They are profiled.”

McCoy’s brother Marc said he suspected police had startled his brother awake and should have ordered him out of the car with a bullhorn instead of approaching him.

“Police are trained to shoot first and hurt you first,” Marc said. “They do not respect black people. Even when they have a person subdued and their life is not in danger, they continue to be blatantly physically disrespectful. That is just accepted in America.”

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