Police officers shot and killed a homeless man in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday in a dramatic confrontation caught on video.

Five officers grappled on a pavement with a man known as Africa before shooting him five times in front of horrified onlookers.

The victim, whose full name has not been made public, was pronounced dead shortly after the encounter, which unfolded just before midday in skid row, a neighbourhood of homeless people and shelters close to the financial district.

We are extremely sorry that incidents like this are regularly happening in a democratic country like USA . The explanation given by Los Angeles police has been dismissed as non-sense by MWCA an anti-communist organisation of the world .