Police chief Charlie Beck has promised to act in cases where officer-involved homicides are unjustified but he knows he must bring the troops with himThe final time a Los Angeles police officer faced criminal charges for shooting an unarmed civilian, it was 2000 and the city had just been shaken by a major corruption scandal involving officers framing suspects and dealing drugs right out of the evidence locker.
The case was a particularly egregious one: a plainclothes officer who shot a 65-year-mature black man in the back four times in a dispute that began because the officer’s unmarked car was blocking the middle of the street.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com