The Los Angeles Police Commission ruled that the fatal police shooting of Alex Flores Jr. was justified, though they disapproved of the tactics used in the lead-up to the shooting.
The Los Angeles Police Commission ruled Tuesday that the fatal police shooting of 34-year-old Alex Flores Jr. as he charged at an LAPD officer with a kitchen knife in November was justified and within department policy, though they disapproved of the tactics used in the lead-up to the shooting.
Body-camera video released by the LAPD in the days after the shooting showed several officers running down the street toward Flores. One pulled out a Taser, which he would later deploy without striking Flores, while the officer who shot Flores pulled his handgun as he screamed at Flores to drop the knife.“Don’t come at me!” the officer then yelled as Flores rushed forward at him. The officer fired multiple times until Flores fell to the ground.
In a report on his own findings that was presented to the commission, Moore wrote that he would have preferred if the sergeant leading the response had “slowed down the intensity of the incident and communicated a tactical plan” to the other officers before they ran up on Flores on the street — including by designating one officer to make contact with Flores, another to provide cover for the first officer, and a third to be in control of less-lethal weapons that could have assisted in taking...
Flores’ sister, Amanda Flores, said her brother was struggling with mental illness. Three days before he was shot, she said, she had found him at their parents’ house paranoid and afraid of nameless people who he believed were out to get him.“He said to me that there was people watching him, stalking him,” she said. “I witnessed how paranoid he was.”
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