California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta’s office cleared LAPD Officer Toni McBride of wrongdoing in the fatal 2020 shooting of Daniel Hernandez.
McBride is the daughter of Jamie McBride, an influential leader at the Los Angeles Police Protective League, which was one of Lacey’s largest campaign donors.concerns, given his track record. Lewinski has been accused of using “pseudoscience” to justify questionable police shootings across the country through his for-hire Force Science Institute.
McBride, a trained sharpshooter, repeatedly commanded Hernandez to drop the weapon. She then shot him in three bursts of two shots each — the first as he advanced toward her, which made him fall to the ground; the second as he got back to his hands and knees as if to advance again; and the third while he was rolling on the ground.
Such analyses have been questioned in the past by other academics in the field of psychology who have studied people’s ability to process multiple pieces of information at once. They’ve also been criticized by experts in the field of policing who have studied using time and space to de-escalate tense situations, and by civil rights attorneys who have studied the law around police use of force.
Capt. Kelly Muniz, an LAPD spokeswoman, said the department was aware of Bonta’s report but declined to comment on it. She said McBride is currently assigned to patrol in the department’s Northeast Division. The federal judge tossed the Hernandez family’s civil lawsuit after finding McBride’s actions were reasonable and that she was protected from such litigation by the legal doctrine of qualified immunity, which shields police officers from legal claims based on their actions taken at work. The family has appealed the judge’s decision to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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