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Los Angeles officer who shot to death man had arrested him 6 years before
Source: Reuters
Los Angeles officer who shot to death man had arrested him 6 years before
BY ALEX DOBUZINSKIS
LOS ANGELES Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:12pm EST
(Reuters) - A Los Angeles police officer involved in a high-profile shooting death of an unarmed black man in August had arrested him six years earlier for marijuana possession, but the officer did not recognize him, a police spokesman said on Friday.
The Aug. 11 shooting death of Ezell Ford, 25, who according to a family lawyer had mental issues, in mostly poor South Los Angeles has raised tensions between police and some people in the city's African-American community.
Members of the Black Lives Matter movement, which began as a response to the 2012 shooting of a teenager by a Florida neighborhood watchman, have called for the two officers who shot Ford to be fired and criminally charged.
The two officers have been pulled from field duty while the shooting is under review.
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BY ALEX DOBUZINSKIS
LOS ANGELES Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:12pm EST
(Reuters) - A Los Angeles police officer involved in a high-profile shooting death of an unarmed black man in August had arrested him six years earlier for marijuana possession, but the officer did not recognize him, a police spokesman said on Friday.
The Aug. 11 shooting death of Ezell Ford, 25, who according to a family lawyer had mental issues, in mostly poor South Los Angeles has raised tensions between police and some people in the city's African-American community.
Members of the Black Lives Matter movement, which began as a response to the 2012 shooting of a teenager by a Florida neighborhood watchman, have called for the two officers who shot Ford to be fired and criminally charged.
The two officers have been pulled from field duty while the shooting is under review.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/17/us-usa-california-shooting-idUSKBN0KQ03820150117
