Posted on 02/16/2022 1:57:29 PM PST by BenLurkin
An off-duty Los Angeles police lieutenant broke department policy when he opened fire on a car after its passenger shot someone on the sidewalk, the LAPD’s civilian oversight panel ruled Tuesday.
Though Lt. Victor Arellano said he feared being shot himself when he fired his handgun, an internal review board found that he did not see anyone in the car aiming a gun at him or posing any other specific threat. Department policy bars officers from firing at moving vehicles unless someone in it is threatening them or someone else with immediate deadly force.
The panel found that the Honda Civic had already passed by Arellano when he ran into the roadway and fired at it from more than 60 feet away...
Arellano, who served on the Wilshire Area Gang Impact Team, could not be reached for comment.
According to Moore’s report, Arellano said that he had tried to lower his seat backward in his own car after witnessing the shooting so that the suspects in the Honda would not see him, but then realized they had seen him.
Believing they were gang members, Arellano feared they would try to kill him for being a witness...
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Gascon: “Twenty years for this b*****d!”
No danger from a drive-by shooter
Wait. Didn’t someone in the car just shoot someone on the sidewalk? WTF is wrong with these people?
Where I am police officers are considered as being on duty 24/7.
Good point!
WTH…can’t shoot at a perp after perp has already shot someone??? Hope the officer was jabbed and masked…otherwise he will get life…
Anarcho-tyranny R US.
A LONG time ago, shooting was okay if first you yell,”Stop in the name of the law!”
It was not that long ago. Tennessee vs Garner was decided in 1985.
WTF is wrong with these people?
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It’s a civilian review board made up of the woke, politically correct democrats(communist) that have an axe to grind, hate police, and have future political office asperations.
now your enemy
Grammar and spelling chiefs
Should have been “know”
Correct both ways.
Another WTF moment!
A fleeing felon should be target practice for police in any country I was running.
“he opened fire on a car after its passenger shot someone on the sidewalk”
Another evil SUV, no doubt.
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