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[quote=Anonymous]He fired 7 times in a crowded Costco, but based on the below, I bet he gets off.  Blue line rarely fails, no matter how many senseless tragedies there are.
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-costco-dispute-lapd-shooting-corona-20190618-story.html
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LAPD Chief Michel Moore briefly addressed the shooting in front of the Police Commission on Tuesday, telling the panel, “There’s many more questions than answers at this point.”

“I’ll wait for the full investigation before commenting on the officer’s decision to use deadly force,” Moore said. “The use of deadly force, whether on- or off-duty, is a matter that is the most-scrutinized decision that we have in this organization, and in this instance, it will be as well.”

French was struck by gunfire multiple times. His parents, Russell and Paola French, remain hospitalized in critical condition, the chief said.

“My heart goes out to the parents of Mr. French,” Moore added. “I pray for their recovery.”

The officer — who was identified by multiple sources as Salvador Sanchez, a patrol officer in the Southwest Division — suffered minor injuries.

Los Angeles investigators are assessing whether the off-duty officer, who has yet to be officially identified by the force, violated any department policies in the shooting. Sanchez has been employed with the LAPD since May 2012, according to department records.

If the officer was knocked unconscious during the attack, as his attorney alleges, it would justify the use of deadly force in the incident, said Ed Obayashi, a Plumas County sheriff’s deputy and use-of-force advisor to the California Assn. of Police Training Officers.

The injury makes him a victim of a serious violent felony — one that would likely have made him disoriented, groggy and launched his brain into a “fight or flight” mode — as opposed to a misdemeanor battery in which the injury was not as significant, Obayashi said.

Ultimately, the five-person Police Commission will decide whether the officer was justified in the shooting and whether he followed department rules before pulling the trigger.

Family members of the Frenches are challenging police accounts of the event. Kenneth French was nonverbal and had the mental capacity of a teenager, said his cousin Rick Shureih. French had no history of being violent, he said, and his parents are kind and gentle people.

Civil rights attorney Dale Galipo, who is representing the French family, said there appears to be unequal treatment of police officers compared with other citizens when deadly force is used.

“This is demonstrated by police departments that often cover for their officers and find shootings to be in policy when civil juries find the same shootings to be excessive and unreasonable, and in violation of the United States Constitution,” he said. “Additionally, rarely are any officers charged criminally with the shootings of unarmed people.”
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