Paul Ray Kemp Jr., 40

June 27, 2014

Paul Ray Kemp Jr., a 40-year-old black man, was shot and killed by an Inglewood Police officer in the 3800 block of West 113th Street in Inglewood, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

About 2:53 a.m., police received a call of “unknown trouble” in the area and arrived to find Kemp in a fight with another man, according to a coroner’s report. Police asked the men to stop fighting, and Kemp ran east on West 113th Street.

An Inglewood police sergeant ran after Kemp and into a frontyard where a fight ensued.The sergeant then pulled out his gun and fired at Kemp, who collapsed, according to the narrative in the report.

Paramedics arrived and pronounced Kemp dead at 3:13 a.m. According to the report, Kemp had six gunshot wounds and had hit by a Taser.

An officer was also shot in the hand and hospitalized.

Anyone with information is asked to call Inglewood police at (310) 412-5240. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.

-- Nicole Santa Cruz

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i'm sad to see bandit,Mr Kemp an many others go in this way. he was a good man i knew him when we was kids him an barney. the truth is this will never stop only get worst. we are living in the end times thank god Mr kemp was right with the almighty GOD. he's in a better place now he doing better then we are, we will miss him badly but the thing is , it's hard to live in the world where the devil is the king of the world...RIP to paul, timothy jr. for the lord has you guys now...soon we will all be laughing an never have a memory of this day..when the lord come an make the evil one's burn in the lake of the fire. and for those who speak with that sword of a tongue about the dead remember what go's around come's around in the devil world so be careful of what you say becus our words are curse...my god bless us all.

— THE END OF THE WORLD Aug. 21, 2014 at 5:33 p.m.

You know what disgusts and infuriates me to my core is the fact that most of the recent killings not only in L.A but in other states (St.Louis), are all either African American or Latino men. Predominately "Black", being that is the derogatory term they choose to reference to us as, and is done so by white or Europeans as they are police officers. This deeply saddens me that once again, another young mans life has been taken due to police brutality and the lack of proper procedures being used to apprehend these "so called" suspects. Not at all ever being in or in attendance to an academy, but my educated guess tells me that you are no taught to aim or shoot to kill unless your life is being threatened, but you're to aim to stop or TEMPORARILY terminate their ability to move. Not to permanently kill them in which has happened on numerous occasions in the last month. Not only does the police force hire criminals as they have been doing that I know of since 2000, but they hire young boys that do not always follow proper protocol and who are scared at the sight of any signs threat whether it be words of profanity or an unarmed man simply complying to polices orders and in which are still being killed for simply doing what we call "officers of the law" are telling them. So my question now is not is the deceased victim that they call "suspect" actually the suspect in this matter? But is the one that's job is to protect and serve the community and the one that should be awaiting trial for murdering innocent men and children and actually getting away with it the real suspect? They got away with it in the Treyvon Martin case and with the killing of Oscar Grant who was clearly no threat in handcuffs. Are they going to let them get away with it again, and again and again. Now if the tables were turned and it was an African American man killing a white cop, it's sad to say that we would probably be dead or awaiting execution. I don't believe their are enough apologies in the world to fill any mother, father, or family members void of not having their loved one anymore. I can;t say I blame any of the protesters or people deemed bad for wanting justice, or even revenge for that matter. I would, indefinitely.
My condolences goes out to all the families that have lost any loved ones to racial police brutality and may God rest all their souls, for I too have lost a few loved ones to police brutality and still to this day am livid about what they're trying to do to stop it. Nothing.....

— Lisa Aug. 18, 2014 at 6:57 p.m.

When will WE as a people stop begging this system for justice, one day we will get the kind of guts arabs have and start retaliating against whoever causes harm to you or your loved ones! The police are a GANG who can kill with no remorse or worry about retribution, so one or two things will have to happen, either they start killing whites in the same manner they kill us or we start dealing with these bastards ourselves, I don't care WHO harmed you he/she should feel the same hurt as you, I'm still waiting for Trayvon Martin's dad to give zimmerman his just due! It's time for some serious getback, stop worrying about "snitchin". that shyt only applies IF you are living a criminals life, these fools need to be taught a lesson, white, black, I don't care, stand up for your people!

— Sleeper July 31, 2014 at 9:15 p.m.

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