November 13, 2007 (LPAC)--In what has become known as a "Giuliani Time" incident, last night New York City police officers mistakenly shot and killed an 18 year-old, pumping 20 bullets into him. The five police officers who took part in the shooting believed the youth, Khiel Coppin, had a gun. But after the shooting stopped and Khiel was dead, the police saw he was only holding a hairbrush. Police were responding to a 9-1-1 call from Coppin's mother. They first described the situation as "a family dispute with a gun," according to the New York Times.

Lyndon LaRouche has referred to previous shooting of this kind, as part of the policy of the Revolution in Military Affairs, that of turning our military and police into trained killers. Point-and-shoot video games are part of the training.

ABC News reported some previous incidents: "In November 2006, an unarmed man named Sean Bell was killed after police fired 50 bullets at his car on what turned out to be his wedding day. In 1999, an unarmed African immigrant named Amadou Diallo was killed when police fired 41 shots at him. Diallo had reached in his pocket, to get his ID, when the cops asked him for it, then they brutally killed him, "mistaking" the wallet, to be a gun.