LAPD officer violated department policy when he fatally shot innocent 14-year-old girl and suspect at North Hollywood Burlington store last year, panel rules
An after-hours call to Jones's attorney, Leslie Lee Wilcox, seeking comment wasn't immediately returned Tuesday.
Police were called to the store in North Hollywood following reports that a man was behaving erratically and wielding a bike lock. He attacked two women, including one who fell to the floor before he dragged her by her feet through the store's aisles as she tried to crawl away.body-camera video shows
. Wielding a rifle, Officer Jones pushed to the front of the pack even as other officers repeatedly said "slow down" and "slow it down." The officers saw a woman crawling on the blood-stained floor and Lopez on the other side of the aisle, according to the video footage. "Hold up! Hold up!" another officer screamed just before Jones fired three shots.
Jones told the LAPD's Use of Force Review Board that he believed someone inside the store was shooting people, that he saw a bleeding victim, mistook the bicycle lock Lopez was wielding for a gun and that he thought a wall behind Lopez backed up against an exterior brick wall that would block the officer's shots. In fact, the area contained the women's dressing rooms.
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