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Ruling: LA officer used unreasonable force in Costco killing

by Associated Press
| June 10, 2020 4:03 PM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An off-duty Los Angeles police officer violated departmental policy last year when he shot and killed a mentally ill man who had attacked him and his young son from behind in a Southern California Costco, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners ruled Wednesday.

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