Posted on 12/24/2021 4:04:04 PM PST by Navy Patriot
LOS ANGELES -- The coroner's office has identified the 14-year-old girl who was fatally shot by Los Angeles police Thursday when officers fired on an assault suspect and a bullet went through the wall and struck the girl as she was in a clothing store dressing room.
Police also fatally shot the suspect Thursday morning at a Burlington store in the North Hollywood area of the San Fernando Valley, police said.
The Los Angeles County coroner identified the girl as Valentina Orellana-Peralta and the suspect as Daniel Elena Lopez, 24. Online coroner records show their autopsies have been completed and their causes of death were both a gunshot wound to the chest.
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Poor girl. May she Rest In Peace.
So, who gets charged? Normally the perp that caused the disturbance is but in this new woke world, will it be the officer? If it is, it is an automatic guilty verdict.
“identified the girl as Valentina Orellana-Peralta and the suspect as Daniel Elena Lopez”
So, what was the cop’s name?
This is so beyond freeeking stupid I’m going to hurt myself venting, after jawboning about how dumbass Potter was.
It’s been about 40 years since the first reported incident of a person being shot while quietly minding his own business in the next room. In a tall apartment building in Honolulu, about 1980, cops shot, missed, killed a kid on the couch next door.
That event started the push for frangible bullets to be used in urban environments. It didn’t take long for very effective frangible rounds to be available and I always had them available. They were designed to not penetrate two layers of sheetrock with much energy left. This stuff has been available to cops in urban areas for decades but you never see them use it. Think how many frangibles they could buy for the cost of the mistake? Garcetti is going to have to write some serious checks to clean this one up.
I lived in North Hollywood for a year back in the 1970s, and then it was just a working class area, but with some isolated Mexican gang activity. Nearby Pacoima was the hotbed of Mexican gangs back then. However, that scourge has exploded throughout the Valley, and today there is no real difference between North Hollywood and Pacoima.
The cop is at direct, immediate fault because he shot without knowing what was behind the suspect. Just the same as if we did so. Whether he gets charged, disciplined, or fired will and should depend on more information, such as was the gunman actually firing or did he just see him and open fire?
Yes, what is the cop’s name and what kind of bullets was he using?
A wall was behind the suspect. What was the cop supposed to do? Ask the suspect to wait while the cop ran inside to make sure no one was on the other side of the wall? On the other hand, it's why cops have tasers, but I don't know if a taser was used but not effective or if it was not used for some reason.
The call was there was an active shooter. That gets the cops all fired up to blast away.
Indeed. That poor little innocent girl. What a horrible, tragic thing and on Christmas Eve, too. I’m shocked the cop would open fire in a mall.
Rule Number 4: Be sure of your target AND what is beyond it.
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See post 13.
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Just a few days ago, some were upset that a security guard didn’t open fire at the Gold Coast Ferrari dealership in ChiCongo with customers around as 2 thugs were stealing those high watches
This is why you just don’t do that unless you want prison time
Having trouble figuring that out, are ya?
“This is why you just don’t do that unless you want prison time”
Yep.
THINGS can be replaced, a LIFE?
Not so much.
If there was no danger of anyone being shot by the doer of evil things then just sit tight, keep eyes on the situation, wait for support and attempt a less lethal ending.
BUT, if said doer of evil things wants a shoot’em up then there isn’t much you can do.
Situations are fluid and can change for better or worse in seconds.
Agreed. This puts a bit of a damper on my Christmas.
Very sad. Very tragic.
Prayers up for her family.
YES!
And, while doing that, change out his magazine for the one with frangible rounds, since (s)he already knew the perp wasn't wearing a vest or body armor. /sar
I trust the government don’t you?
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