LOS ANGELES — Shameka Smith on Tuesday stood outside the Westlake apartment building where Los Angeles police had killed her husband the day before, wondering how things had gone so wrong.
"I begged them not to shoot him," she said, as family members draped their arms over her shoulders to comfort her.
Smith and her relatives and friends called on the LAPD to release unedited video of the shooting recorded by officers' body-worn cameras, saying they questioned department officials' claim that Takar Smith was shot because he had raised a knife above his head as officers struggled to detain him.
