Actor, killed by police, memorialized by "E.R." episode

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>From: "Lou Paulsen" <wwchi at enteract.com>
>To: <marxism at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Actor, killed by police, memorialized by "E.R." episode
>Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 12:13:56 -0600
>
>Viewers of NBC's popular show "E.R." last night saw, at the beginning of
>credits, the notice: "In membory of Anthony Lee."  Most probably wondered
>who he was.
>
>Anthony Dwain Lee was a Black actor who appeared in that same episode as a
>homeless drug-using man who nearly dies of an embolism when his complaints
>are dismissed as drug-seeking behavior, but is saved at the last moment by
>Dr. Carter.
>
>In real life, racism was more deadly.  Lee was shot dead by LA police on
>October 28.  He was attending a Halloween party, in costume; in his
>possession was a toy gun made of gray rubber.  He was with two other people
>in a back room of the house, separated from an outside walkway by a glass
>door.  A light shone at him from the outside walkway.  He may have turned
>towards it.  LA police, who were at the house answering a complaint of loud
>noise, and who were looking for the owner, fired nine bullets into Lee
>through the glass door.  "He pointed the gun right at me," the officer
>stated later.
>
>Here is a CNN story:
><http://www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/24/bc.brf..costumekilling.ap/index.html>