The family of a man who was killed by Los Angeles police SWAT officers during a standoff last spring is suing the department.
Chief Michel Moore has ordered an internal review of SWAT team operations to determine whether “any potential problems or patterns” exist in how the unit uses force.
Police say James let off a single shot from a window at officers and bystanders on the street below, prompting Ng and Dominguez to open fire, killing him. According to a report for Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore, Ng was walking up when Maya made the comment.received a two-day suspension Instead of leaving the department, a gasping James was seen opening a window before pulling out a handgun and letting off a shot indiscriminately toward the street below. No one was injured.
Ideally, one officer would be the designated shooter, while the other played the role of spotter, passing along details about what was happening in the apartment below to avoid the “simultaneous discharge of their rifles,” the board said. “Also, in the area of — the studio, there was people that are actually living in the storefronts that are there. In the event to the defense of their lives, of police officers’ lives and the innocent bystanders that were there, I felt that the suspect was posing a deadly threat, so I fired one round at the suspect
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