Friends described Brendon K. Glenn as a "traveler," part of an urban tribe of homeless young adults and teenagers that roams the country, forming shifting alliances or "families" to survive in the streets.
The 29-year-old was "spanging" — the street term for asking people for spare change — outside a Venice bar with his dog Dozer on Tuesday night, friends said, when someone complained that he was harassing customers.
Glenn scuffled with a bouncer and two police officers, one of whom shot and killed him.
The shooting has set off protests in Venice and questions about whether the officers used excessive force. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said last week that he was "very concerned" about the shooting after reviewing a security video of the altercation.
The tape has not been publicly released. But Beck was blunt in his view: "Any time an unarmed person is shot by a Los Angeles police officer, it takes extraordinary circumstances to justify that. I have not seen those extraordinary circumstances."
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