“This doesn’t build public trust. Where is the evidence?” said Jeff Wenninger, a former Los Angeles Police lieutenant who oversaw use of force investigations.
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Wenninger said the report doesn’t address all the criteria it’s supposed to under the law, noting that CHP doesn’t cite anything to corroborate their claim that protesters were threatening lives or serious bodily injury. He called the report “nothing more than boilerplate.” Lorena Gonzalez, who as an assemblymember authored the 2021 bill that strictly restricted officers’ use of “less lethal” munitions, has called the police actions “a total training failure by CHP” in response to CalMatters’ reporting.
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