Teresa Anderson, public policy director of The Arc of California, posted a call for action on the shooting. The failure to bring charges stunned a lot of our families.”Īnd beyond the Inland Empire, other autism and disability groups in California have weighed in. In all, safety is the top priority: safety in interactions outside the home and safety in police relations. Beth Burt, Executive Director of the Inland Empire Society and President of the Autism Society statewide, explained “We conduct regular surveys of our families on how we can best serve them.
The Facebook page of the Autism Society-Inland Empire, an area that includes San Bernardino and Riverside counties, filled with posts on the shooting: anger and incredulity at the failure to bring charges, and determination that Officer Sanchez be held accountable. This time will be different, California’s disability activists have promised over the month since Estrin’s decision. The police officer in Miami was convicted of negligence, a misdemeanor, while the police officer in Chicago was given a six-month suspension.
These shootings also received initial media attention, but then quickly faded from view.
The Costco shooting is latest of a number of police shootings of men with developmental disabilities, in recent years, including in Chicago, and in North Miami. Will this shooting follow the trajectory of other police shootings of adults with developmental differences? The Los Angeles Police Commission earlier found Sanchez violated LAPD policy on the use of force and he was fired from the department.What to make of the shooting? The media have moved on, as has the District Attorney and local elected officials. However, the state Attorney General charged Sanchez in August with voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. The Riverside County Grand Jury in September 2019 declined to indict Sanchez after a criminal investigation. The bulk of the verdict will be borne by the City of Los Angeles, with the eight-person jury finding that Sanchez was acting within the scope of his LAPD employment when he opened fire inside the store, attorney Dale K. Sanchez opened fire and struck Kenneth and Paola French in the back, and Russell French in the abdomen. Sanchez drew his firearm and both parents pleaded with Sanchez not to shoot, saying their son had a mental illness, the wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit filled in December 2019 alleged. Kenneth French, 32, and his parents, Paola French and Russell French, were shopping at a Costco on Jwhen Kenneth hit off-duty LAPD officer Salvador Sanchez in the back of the head while Sanchez held his 18-month-old child.
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The family of a man with intellectual disabilities shot and killed by an off-duty Los Angeles Police officer in 2019 in Corona was awarded slightly more than $17 million Wednesday by a Riverside federal jury after a trial over allegations of wrongful death and civil rights violations.
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