LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Commission found Tuesday that one officer acted within policy but the other violated it in the fatal close-range shooting of a 25-year-old black man last year.
The commission's vote was unanimous involving both officers, finding that the senior officer was justified in the August shooting death of Ezell Ford and the other was unjustified.
The commission did not specify what the second officer did to violate policy, but it found that the officer violated policy in every aspect they examined, from the initial contact with Ford through the use of both lethal and nonlethal force. The second officer was found in violation in only one area — an earlier drawing of a gun before the final use of deadly force. Read more...
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