Harith Augustus, aka “Snoop the Barber,” was a popular barber in Chicago’s south side.
On July 14, 2018, Augustus was on a sidewalk near his barbershop, just walking and doing nothing suspicious, when he was accosted by five cops. Two of the officers were black, three were white. They noticed a possible gun bulge under his shirt.
Augustus did have a handgun, but in America that’s exercising a right. And therefore, doesn’t justify a police investigative stop. Bottom line, it was an unconstitutional stop-and-frisk.
Video shows Snoop arguing with the cops, the cops physically manhandling him, and Snoop breaking free and trying to run away, at which point a female cop shot him 5 times in the back — killing him.
They claimed Snoop went for his gun, but they were lying. When police videos were finally pried loose with FOIA laws, one video showed a cop walking over to Snoop’s body, unsnapping a holster strap, and removing his gun from the holster. (Watch video below.)
Other videos show the cops talking to each other about what their story would be. Later, the city’s attorneys would lie to the courts.
Police press releases called Snoop a “suspect” and an “adult male offender.” That was slander. He was neither of those things. Read stories here and here.
He was a black man with a gun, and in Chicago black people aren’t supposed to have guns. Never mind what the Second Amendment says; it’s an unwritten law of the streets, violently enforced by that city’s police.