LAPD detective involved in drunken shooting on skid row challenges 55-day suspension

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Tom Dreisbach
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An LAPD detective spent hours getting drunk with his subordinates.

He wandered off to Skid Row, got in a fight with a homeless man, and shot him.

The Police Chief and recommended he get fired.

He got a 55-day suspension and is back on the job.
Surveillance video of the altercation and shooting involving LAPD Det. Michael Johnson in skid row in 2019, provided by the LAPD, is partially obscured by rain water.

LAPD detective involved in drunken shooting on skid row challenges 55-day suspension
A LAPD detective who avoided being fired for shooting a man on skid row after a night of drinking in 2019 is challenging the suspension he received.
latimes.com
9:39 AM · Apr 15, 2021

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-15/lapd-detective-involved-in-drunken-shooting-challenges-55-day-suspension

A Los Angeles police detective who narrowly avoided getting fired after drinking for hours with his subordinates in downtown bars and then shooting a homeless man during an early-morning altercation on skid row in 2019 is challenging the lesser suspension he received.

Det. Michael Johnson, who was hospitalized in critical condition and placed in an induced coma after being badly beaten and losing his gun during the fight, argued in a filing in L.A. County Superior Court last week that the 55-day suspension without pay he received should be overturned as excessive.

“Under all of the facts and circumstances of this case, the penalty imposed ... was excessive and was not based on the evidence presented, and as such, constitutes an arbitrary and capricious abuse of discretion,” Johnson’s complaint stated.

The challenge, which revealed the details of Johnson’s suspension for the first time, comes more than a year after LAPD Chief Michel Moore said publicly that he had recommended Johnson be fired for his actions, and as the L.A. County district attorney’s office continues to review the shooting.

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