On a North Hollywood street last year, Los Angeles Police Officer Daniel Harty watched through his rifle scope as 50-year-old Rommel Mendoza walked “erratically” toward him and a line of other officers, waving a sword and holding the lid of a cooking pan like a shield.
Police officials and officers like Harty say such weapons represent real, imminent threats. Others claim the danger is exaggerated and that officers are too quick to pull the trigger — another reason, amid the broader “defund the police” movement, they want mental health clinicians to take over calls from cops.
intended to reduce shootings — have also occurred, driven in part by unpredictable and fast-moving incidents and officers perceiving threats as being more imminent than they were. ruling that McBride should have reassessed the threat that Hernandez posed to her between rounds and stopped shooting after the fourth shot.
Although Harty said he believed his instructions from senior officers that day were to shoot Mendoza if he reached the white SUV — which he referred to as an agreed-upon “threshold” — others on the line believed the SUV was the point at which Mendoza should be shot with a projectile, not a rifle round.
Yvonne Mendoza said her brother immigrated to the United States at an early age and worked hard for years to provide for his family and others in his hometown in the Philippines, where he helped build a church, paid people’s hospital bills and was always the first to donate when natural disasters struck.His younger brother, Raymund, said his brother was in crisis and police botched their response.The family’s comments echoed those of protesters and activists in other cases.
A still-used LAPD training bulletin from 2002 says such encounters were increasingly common, and that the department’s goal was to resolve such incidents “using the minimum force necessary.”The bulletin cites the “21-foot rule,” but says “distance is not the only factor that must be considered.”
Issue here is not enough help for people with mental health problems. Where do they go to get help? We need mental health hospitals and it needs to be accessible to all.
The problem here isn’t the LAPD. Pro tip: don’t brandish weapons and don’t get shot. Maybe if Garcetti forced these folks into treatment they would have a better chance of survival.
Don't LAPD officers have a right to defend themselves against those threatening them with deadly objects? Guns aren't the only deadly weapon.
If you threaten to hurt or kill someone with a sharp object then it’s as dangerous as a gun. Is there a problem?
Where’s the social workers when you neees then.
This it what happens when you let cops kill people with effectively immunity
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