motion to dismiss judge under perjury and prejudiceInboxxSteve Noh <[email protected]>Mar 29 (11 days ago)
to EVA.M.VIVAS, eoir.ijconduct *Motion of Dismissal of Judge and my attorney under Prejudice and Incompetence and Perjury 1. I was qualified for Franco-Gonzales Class Action Member, and got assigned with atty Laurel Esterle who backstabbed me citing the reason I am seeking Asylum was: “South korean prosecutes for being a gay” (this statement was a fraud, I never said it and all immigration atty know it), and she placed me into Sex Offender House with $750/month where Foods were not compatible with my diabetes diet requirement and it is a crooky house.2.after this complaint,, her supervisor , mr Pena who got on my case by replacing ms Esterle,but never contacted me ,but lied in the court that Judge-ordered housing and med care requirement assured /helped on my case...None happened, even after 3 years3.one day, Judge asked me tough a dozen of questions while mr. Pena(my atty) was sitting right next to me. She did not ask any question to my atty. I am diagnosed with Schizophrenia4.and I filed multiple complaints against Newly assigned executive director at Immdef.org, her name is Lindsay who never returned my emails of 300, some of them are very important in my immigration appeal5.Judge DENIED MY ATTEMPT TO DISMISS JUDGE TWICE AND DISMISS OF MY ATTY 4 TIMES. SHE WILL NOT LET ME GO FORWARD WITH DISMISSAL PROCEDURES… THAT IS MY CIVIL RIGHT VIOLATION. She did not allow me to speak ZERO, including “open door proceeding” (she denied)6.now ePath.org( homeless advocacy) group ( manager Ann_________________________)(Ricky______________________) and Public Counsel Atty(Tyra McGrey) and DMH and Special-Need Older Adult Group(Will Chau______________) are trying to get me my housing which has been reserved for me over last several months7. My immigration atty and my immigration office(mr. Majia) and his supervisor (viva) are not helping me with housing, which JUDGE ordered so many times. That is why Jose Parra from my atty office was assigned to help me with housing, he indeed secured a shelter at LAMP(mental ill and critically ill homeless shelter).However due to my Atty’s unethical work, Jose quitted his job at that law office.I, hee young noh, is a victim of 2012 and 2014 LAPD corruption.LAC DA Just Integrity Unit(974-5010) and LAPD police commission(ms debra green) and LAFD internal affair have been investigated but not by LAPD internal affair until last monthHowever my atty did not requrest U-Visa from all above ‘investigating org’In summary, I should have been granted on u-visa long ago, but Judge and my 3 attorneys are playing Perjury and Deception and Incompetence. I wish to dismiss both. Thanks Hee Young Noh(A# 205 314 100 ), contact 213-909-8456 <(213)%20909-8456>Pobox 74074.LA <http://74074.la/>,Ca90004, [email protected] <[email protected]>signed and dated
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http://www.laweekly.com/news/la-voters-can-have-say-in-independent-oversight-of-la-sheriffs-department-9335891 The Clark family has accused the police department of trying to cover up misconduct by its officers and decided to conduct its own autopsy.
In the wake of Clark’s death, there are deafening calls from the community for more transparency and accountability regarding the investigation into his death. These calls also include getting answers to the lingering question of why the officers decided to mute their audio. Ironically, the one group put into place to be a link among the community, City Hall and the police won’t be able to help. The 11-member Sacramento Community Police Review Commission was established in 2017 by the city council last year as part of a package of police reforms after the community complained that a previous version of the commission didn’t have enough oversight capabilities. But like most citizen watchdog groups established by mayors and city councils in cities in the wake of mounting concern over the question of “Who polices the police?” the Sacramento Community Police Review Commission is merely advisory. Most independent oversight commissions lack independence. They are unable to conduct their own investigations, subpoena records or to compel the testimony of police officers and their superiors accused of wrongdoing. In Los Angeles, efforts have begun to change the charter of the county via ballot measure to provide its Civilian Oversight Commission with subpoena power to effectively investigate deputy misconduct. The Reform Jails and Community Reinvestment Initiative seeks to ensure that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, the governing body for America’s most populous county and largest jail system, invests some of the $3.5 billion planned for building new jails into providing alternatives to incarceration. Proponents need to gather more than 150,000 signatures of registered voters to place it on the highly coveted November gubernatorial ballot. The reform effort will not affect the Los Angeles Police Department, which has a separate police commission. Civic engagement is incredibly important for the health of a community. The Reform Jails and Community Reinvestment Initiative puts the conversation of police accountability and alternatives to incarceration into the hands of the voters in L.A. County. This is necessary because there has been misconduct, most notably with former Sheriff Lee Baca and his undersheriff Paul Tanaka, who were both convicted of conspiracy and obstructing an FBI investigation into deputy jail abuses. We realize that to re-establish trust, we must create an oversight body for the Sheriff’s Department in L.A. County that serves to foster dialogue, feedback and shared knowledge between the community and the police. Civilian oversight bodies are put into place because the public has lost faith in their scandal-ridden, beleaguered police departments. But these groups often end up being more of a conciliatory gesture from local governments to placate the public in troubled times. They are prevented from doing the very work that both city officials and police departments claim they want to be done — improving public accountability and transparency. IF YOU LIKE THIS STORY, CONSIDER SIGNING UP FOR OUR EMAIL NEWSLETTERS.SHOW ME HOWTo root out misconduct, bring about real criminal justice reform and avoid having Bonnie investigate Clyde, these civilian bodies that hold the trust of the public must have two things — independence and power. Without it, they’re just for show. Oversight with no site. Oversight with no bite. Reform L.A. Jails will hold a campaign kickoff for its signature-gathering drive on Saturday, April 7, at noon at Mercado La Paloma, 3655 S. Grand Ave. More information at reformlajails.com. Jasmyne Cannick is a nationally known writer and commentator on political, race and social issues. She is a political consultant working on the L.A. County ballot measure to Reform L.A. Jails. Patrisse Cullors is the New York Times best-selling author of When They Call You a Terrorist and the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Dignity and Power Now, and JusticeLA. She is a proponent of the Reform L.A. County ballot measure to provide subpoena power to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Civilian Oversight Commission.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/marcos-breton/article208230624.html"Implicit bias" is a nice way of saying someone is racist without calling them racist. You have heard it more often recently, in association with the police shooting of Stephon Clark last month. If implicit bias were a light beer, its sales slogan would be: "Less judgmental, feels nicer." U.S Sen. Kamala Harris lapped up the phrase repeatedly in Sacramento last week while describing recent examples of police brutality. Presumably, this allowed Harris, as it has other other politicians, to speak of social justice without alienating law enforcement too much, or losing endorsements and financial contributions This is not a new phrase we're talking about. Social scientists have been citing implicit bias for years. It refers to the unconscious as opposed to conscious. It is about attitudes and biases we all harbor without really knowing or admitting we do. hose biases can result in all-white workplaces, run by male CEO's, who would never approve of a project that featured a diverse-cast movie not named "Black Panther." They are part of the social fabric that affect us in in many ways. With the police, implicit bias can kill. OPINION Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg repeated his call for addressing implicit bias within police ranks, and the term arose again just last week related to the city's settlement with Nandi Cain Jr., a black man beaten by a Sacramento Police officer after a jaywalking stop. The mayor also invoked the term earlier talking about the March 18 shooting of Stephon Clark. Implicit bias possibly is behind Clark getting shot repeatedly in the back because he may have been breaking windows. Implicit bias drives some sort of instant blanket judgment on black men. Maybe. Or is it just racist to assume that all black men you come upon in the dark are carrying guns and are inherently dangerous? Can we really solve the problems by being so nice about them, coming up with gentle social jargon to mask them? The police officers who killed Clark didn't know his criminal record when they pulled their trigger and fired 20 shots between them. But they knew they were on a darkened street in a struggling neighborhood. They knew dogs were barking and growling at them. It seems fair to say they recognized an African American man in their sights just before the tragic moment that turned Sacramento into a national symbol of police brutality. It happened in a flash: The officers screamed, "Gun!" when, in fact, it was a cell phone. Implicit bias? Or racism? If it were the former, conventional wisdom suggests law enforcement officers can be trained to recognize and suppress their biases in stressful situations. Law enforcement officers in California are being trained to recognize implicit bias through course work provided by the California Commission on Peace Officer Training and Standards. The training is in progress and not all officers are training yet, but is it even possible to teach cops not to kill young black men in stressful confrontations? Maybe because we all must believe that it is possible, plenty of important people in Sacramento are done arguing the dreaded "R" word and have moved onto to confronting the more acceptable implicit bias concept. It's a start. Steinberg has labored to maintain a relationship with the cops. Even though he was not endorsed by the local police officers union, Steinberg has made a point to attend police roll calls. He maintains, then, a connection with the cops on the street and they feel less alienated from City Hall. When cops feel alienated, they are more likely to behave that way in public. An alienated cop, a stressed and scared cop, can be a more dangerous cop. Before the Clark shooting, Sacramento Police had been taking real steps to address the biases and alienation that front-line cops feel on the streets. In Police Chief Daniel Hahn, Sacramento has a law enforcement leader who is willing to have the hard conversations within his own ranks. Hahn understands the vast power that front-line cops wield every day and realizes that power can corrupt unless its checked with training and professionalism. Play Video 3:30 Sacramento Police Chief Hahn ask California Attorney General Becerra help in investigating the shooting of Stephon ClarkSacramento Police Chief Hahn ask California Attorney General Becerra for help investigating the shooting of unarmed Stephon Clark. Paul Kitagaki Jr. Since Hahn took the reins of a troubled department in August, Sacramento PD has been looking inward in encouraging ways, said Basim Elkarra, a leader in Sacramento's Muslim community and a member of the Sacramento Police Community Police Review Committee. When I suggested implicit bias was a slogan designed to avoid confronting racism, Elkarra disagreed. "The training they are doing in Sacramento Police is real, man," he said. He described crisis intervention training where instructors show their pupils a series of police shootings followed by intense discussions on how they were handle. "It was intense, people disagreed," he said. The training will inform ordinances on police pursuits of suspects that Elkarra and others hope will decrease the likelihood of the next Stephon Clark. It is a nice thought: That a paramilitary organization like Sacramento Police can truly embrace introspection without circling the wagons, as law enforcement agencies often do. If cops can admit they have biases – about skin color, appearances, modes of expression, poverty – maybe fewer people will die in Sacramento because of how they look or where they live. That would be nice, but training alone won't get it done. I get that its more practical to reduce racism to an inefficiency rather than confront it as a moral failing. But cops have been talking about implicit bias for years and Stephon Clark still ended up dead. And I fear that a decade from now we'll acknowledge that racism by any other name is still racism and is not so easily corrected. While Clark and other young black men like him die, the urge to fear "the other" is still alive and well, whatever the condition is called. An entire community needs to call out implicit bias – and racism – when it sees it. That makes a better slogan: More honest, live longer. 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I also write a weekly baseball column during the baseball season. I am a native of Northern California and the son of Mexican immigrants. I’ve been at The Bee for more than 20 years, and I love Sacramento. Contact Marcos Bretón: [email protected]or 916-321-1096. Twitter: @MarcosBreton MARCOS BRETÓNFace it, you just may not believe in Martin Luther King Jr.If one of your deputies hits a protester, what do you do? Dodge and weaveAwaiting death in season of renewal, Bishop Quinn reflects on life – and the secret to happinessHere's another result of the Stephon Clark autopsy – cops can't investigate copsMaximizing Productivity With Mini-habits A federal court jury awarded $10 million in damages Friday to a San Francisco man who spent six years in prison before his murder conviction was thrown out.
Jamal Trulove accused four San Francisco police officers of framing him for a 2007 killing at the city’s Sunnydale public housing complex. An eight-member jury in Oakland heard three weeks of testimony and deliberated for two days before unanimously finding Friday that the two lead homicide inspectors on the case, Michael Johnson and Maureen D’Amico, had violated Trulove’s rights by fabricating evidence against him and withholding evidence that might have helped him. Jurors found no wrongdoing by a third inspector, Robert McMillan, or by Officer John Evans, the crime-scene investigator. All four officers are now retired. The city is responsible for the damages. “It’s about time,” said Kate Chatfield, a lawyer for Trulove. “Justice is not (merely) being acquitted for a crime you did not do. This was finally justice.” Recommended Video: Not guilty verdict reached in Kate Steinle murder case A jury found a Mexican man not guilty in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier that touched off a fierce national immigration debate , rejecting possible charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to first-degree murder. 00:00 00:50A jury found a Mexican man not guilty in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier that touched off a fierce national immigration debate , rejecting possible charges ranging from involuntary manslaughter to first-degree murder. Media: Fox10PhoenixHer co-counsel, Alex Reisman, said Trulove was in tears after the verdict was Crime statistics for 2015 showed a sharp increase in violent crimes in Los Angeles — and the rest of the country — over previous years.
One much-discussed rationale for the crime spike is the so-called Ferguson effect. This is the theory that law enforcement has withdrawn from protecting communities as a result of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014 and the nationwide public outrage that followed. Some argue that officers have become reluctant to engage in proactive policing and are arresting fewer suspects because they fear intense media scrutiny and public condemnation. That is not what's going on in Los Angeles. In 2015, LAPD officers made 8% more arrests for violent crime than the year before and arrested 28% more people on auto theft charges. In addition, weapons-related arrests went up by 5%. If our patrol officers and detectives were not aggressively investigating crimes and stopping suspects, arrest rates would be flat or lower. Instead, we see only lower arrest rates for certain crimes modified by Proposition 47 and other legislation. In short, LAPD officers are in no way avoiding their duty to protect the public. Nevertheless, there is a Ferguson effect being felt in Los Angeles. It's just not the effect that is being discussed. The events in Ferguson highlighted how many communities in America do not believe that the police are using their authority fairly and legitimately. This perception — and in some unfortunate cases, reality — has created a barrier to cooperation between cops and residents to combating crime. That is the real Ferguson effect. There are any number of theories on what causes crime rates to swell, but nearly everyone agrees that public trust is essential to successful law enforcement. Police alone cannot reduce crime. Community partnerships, joint problem solving and open communication with the public are critical. When those links are weak, police are less effective, particularly at preventing crime. The legitimacy of the whole criminal justice system, in fact, starts with the public's perception of policing. Every day, officers have to take actions that are often misunderstood or unpopular, most especially the use of physical, even deadly, force. Every community — including people of color and residents of poor neighborhoods — needs to have faith that officers will apply force in the right way, at the right time and for the right reasons. It isn't sufficient to simply say that police officers used force appropriately, to protect their own lives or the lives of others, after the fact. Without legitimacy, law enforcement will always struggle. The Los Angeles Police Department has confronted and overcome many such challenges in recent decades. But we know there is still much work to do, especially in communities that have been underserved and suffered the most from violent crimes. This is why the LAPD is taking a dual approach to responding to the city's increase in crime. We have doubled the size of the Metropolitan Division, a squad of highly trained officers who concentrate on the most dangerous criminals and violent crime. This unit has the geographic flexibility to focus on areas where crime is rising, bringing extra help to make neighborhoods safer. At the same time, we are investing in efforts to build strong bonds and promote mutual understanding between the police and the public. In August, for instance, we formed the new Community Relationship Division to better consolidate, coordinate and improve our public outreach efforts, which are so essential for building strong partnerships with the public. We also have developed a nationally recognized Community Safety Partnership Program. In less-privileged communities, police officers organize activities, provide mentoring and play in sports leagues with local young people. This program has proved its value in six public housing projects that historically suffered from high crime rates. In 2015, these communities saw violent crime drop 17% and property crime drop 27% compared with the year prior. Investigating crimes and making arrests, the core functions of any police agency, are dramatically hampered if we don't have the trust and confidence of the communities we serve. Addressing that part of the Ferguson effect is crucial if we are to reduce crime and make our communities safer together. Charlie Beck is the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Police Commission faults LAPD officer who shot and killed 70-year-old man holding metal pipe2/15/2018 LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, center, shown at a news conference this year, disagreed with the officer's actions and faulted him for not turning on his body camera until after the shooting and not carrying a Taser, violations of department rules. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) A veteran Los Angeles police officer violated department rules for using deadly force last year when he shot and killed a 70-year-old man holding a pipe in downtown L.A., an oversight panel determined. Siding with Chief Charlie Beck, the Los Angeles Police Commission unanimously faulted Officer Charles Garcia for firing his gun and for some of the tactics he used before pulling the trigger. Several bystanders filmed the March 4 shooting, which happened at a busy intersection — Olympic Boulevard and Broadway — in the middle of the afternoon. Those videos, which show Garcia fire twice at Alejandro Mendez as he stood several feet away, quickly raised questions both inside and outside the LAPD. In his report to the commission, Beck said the decision by Garcia and his partner to "immediately deploy" on Mendez limited the time they had to "assess the situation or consider other tactical options." PAID POSTWhat Is This? How to fix your fatigue (Do this every day)Dr. Gundry reveals the top 3 common foods that you’d never guess are making you tired. Watch Now SEE MORESponsored Content by They could have pulled out a bean-bag shotgun instead, Beck wrote, giving them more room to react to someone who didn't have a gun. Read LAPD Chief Charlie Beck's report on the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Mendez » Beck ultimately placed the responsibility on Garcia, noting his partner was a reserve officer working his first full day in the field. Garcia, who has been with the LAPD for more than 20 years, should have come up with a better plan for resolving the situation "with the least amount of force necessary," the chief wrote. Garcia's name was redacted from a public copy of Beck's report, though the department previously identified him as the only officer who fired his gun during the deadly encounter. The name of the reserve officer, who was cleared of any wrongdoing, has not been released. Larry Hanna, an attorney representing Garcia, said he believed the officers acted appropriately to safeguard bystanders in the area. They first used a Taser to try to subdue Mendez, he said. Mendez, he added, had swung a long metal pipe at others, and the officers believed he continued to pose a threat. "There was no way they could stand by and let this person just swing at civilians," Hanna said. "One hit to the head and the civilian goes down, then the chief or other people would be saying, 'Why didn't they take action? Why didn't they do something?'" Fewer shootings by police — that's the goal of new rules adopted by the L.A. Police Commission APR 18, 2017 | 8:00 PMThe situation unfolded shortly before 12:30 p.m., when the Central Division officers responded to a report of a gray-haired man swinging a pipe outside a Carl's Jr. at Olympic and Main Street. They ultimately found their suspect, later identified as Mendez, about a block away. At least one officer told investigators he saw Mendez swinging a "long stick or pipe" toward people as they approached him, according to Beck's report. Video from the officers' patrol car showed Mendez "jabbing" the pole as he stepped toward a security officer, who then stepped backward and moved a bike to keep Mendez away, the report said. LAPD officers expected to face more scrutiny over shootings with new rules APR 17, 2017 | 3:00 AMOne officer told investigators that he feared someone could be hit by the pipe, so they "couldn't wait for a backup and had to move," Beck's report said. The officers began issuing commands that Mendez ignored, the report said. At least one officer moved closer, telling him to "stop and drop the stick." The reserve officer then fired a Taser, the report said, but it had no effect on Mendez. Mendez, still holding the pipe, moved closer, Garcia later told investigators, according to Beck's report. "He came at me, and I fired," Garcia told them. "He was coming at me, my partner. I was thinking about the other people that were all there, if he — it would take, literally, a couple seconds for him to advance and just start swinging." Paramedics took Mendez to a hospital, where he died less than an hour later. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-parking-lots-housing-20180209-story.html uary 9, 2018 at 7:37 pm | UPDATED: February 9, 2018 at 7:38 pmImmigrant rights’ advocates are celebrating a federal court ruling that found, in part, that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department violated the Constitution when it held jail inmates longer than their release dates for immigration purposes.
Thursday’s decision by the Central District of California means that the Sheriff’s Department unlawfully held thousands of suspected immigrant inmates on the basis of these “immigration detainers” between 2010-2014 – some for days after their release date – without probable cause of a crime, according to civil rights groups and attorneys involved in the case. The court’s ruling, which stemmed from lawsuits filed against the Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also found it’s unconstitutional or illegal for ICE to issue such immigration holds for certain inmates. Advocates say this also affects thousands of people. “It’s hugely significant,” said Jennie Pasquarella, director of immigrants’ rights for the American Civil Liberties Union of California and a senior staff attorney for ACLU of Southern California. “It’s the first class-action seeking damages that has addressed the detainer issues … nationwide that I know of.” Pasquerella noted that many law enforcement agencies had stopped holding inmates past their release date for federal immigration authorities due to these legal concerns, which is why the debate over sanctuary cities and states has exploded. “The Trump administration has been trying all manner of ways to coerce police to comply with them, but this reaffirms that there is no legal authority for them to comply – nor is there necessarily authority for ICE to be issuing them in the first place,” she said. Every person who was held on an immigration detainer by the Sheriff’s Department during those five years should benefit from the ruling, Pasquarella said. The ACLU estimates that number to be between 10,000 and 12,000 people. “The next stage is to determine damages,” Pasquarella explained. “They may be eligible for compensation.” Because holding inmates longer than their release dates constitutes a new arrest under the Fourth Amendment, Sheriff’s Department officials could only arrest these individuals if deputies had “probable cause” to suspect they were involved in criminal activity, the court stated in its ruling. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. “The LASD officers have no authority to arrest individuals for civil immigration offenses, and thus, detaining individuals beyond their date for release violated the individuals’ Fourth Amendment Rights,” the ruling stated. The Supreme Court has said that local officers generally lack authority to arrest people suspected of civil immigration violations, the ruling added. The Sheriff’s Department, in a written statement, said that it could not get into specifics concerning the lawsuit. But it noted that the lawsuit, which was filed in 2012, involved past practices. “Currently, the Sheriff’s Department does not detain any inmate beyond their normal release date regardless of whether or not there is a valid ICE detainer,” the department said. “This has been the standard practice since 2014.” It was unclear if the department would appeal the decision. The Central District of California’s ruling also found Thursday that it’s unconstitutional for ICE to issue immigration detainers for inmates based on evidence of a person’s foreign birthplace without records in an immigration database. The court also found it illegal for ICE to issue detainers without an administrative warrant signed by an ICE officer. Those decisions apply to all detainers issued from ICE offices in California, said Jessica Bansal, litigation director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. She noted the federal agency has an office in Laguna Niguel that issues detainers around the country. Now that the ruling has been made, the court could issue an injunction lifting these immigration holds, Bansal said. ICE implemented a policy last year whereby warrants are now issued with detainers, she added. However, they were not generally issued before April, 2017. ICE does not comment on pending litigation as a matter of policy, spokeswoman Lori K. Haley said. But she noted that lack of comment should not be construed as agreement with any of the allegations. “In (Department of Homeland Security’s) homeland security mission, our trained law enforcement professionals adhere to the Department’s mission, uphold our laws while continuing to provide our nation with safety and security,” she said in an email. Several issues still need to be resolved during the trial of this case, including whether ICE’s databases are accurate and complete enough for the agency to issue immigration holds for any inmate, according to the plaintiffs. The two lawsuits, which have been combined, were filed by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the law firm of Kaye, McLane, Bednarski & Litt, the National Immigrant Justice Center and the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. Get the latest news delivered daily! SUBSCRIBE Follow Us
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Deputies shot and killed Anthony Weber during a foot chase Sunday evening. They said they spotted a handgun tucked into his pants, but investigators never recovered a weapon. The year-old Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission — a nine-person board appointed by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to monitor the Sheriff's Department — called the crisis meeting to quell tensions between the community and the law enforcement agency. John Weber, the teen's father, brought an enlarged cellphone photograph of his son lying on the ground. "Where's the gun?" he asked. "I know where the bullets are, they're right in my baby's back." Sheriff's officials were silent. At least 150 people showed up to the forum, held at New Congregational Missionary Baptist Church in South L.A. "You killed a 16-year-old!" another man screamed. The boy's brother, also named John Weber, also addressed sheriff's officials. "Was my brother murdered? Yes or no?" he asked. "Yes!" others in the crowd screamed. At one point, the younger Weber asked a sheriff's captain if his brother's family or community was "due something." "Absolutely not," Capt. Christopher Bergner replied. An angry group then convened around the panel, prompting authorities to end the meeting early. Bergner's response didn't sit well with those on the oversight panel. "We are just as insulted by that response as the community," said Commissioner Xavier Thompson. Patti Giggans, another commissioner, said the meeting ended early because Weber's family and the community were disrespected. "The way families are treated after a shooting is not OK," she said. In a statement Thursday morning, the Sheriff's Department said that Bergner couldn't hear the question being asked because of the noise in the room. He heard, "Don't you think we are doomed?" the department said. "That is the only reason why he replied 'Absolutely not,'" according to the statement. The shooting occurred about 8 p.m. Sunday in the Westmont neighborhood of South L.A. Two deputies responded to a report of a young man in blue jeans and a black shirt pointing a handgun at a motorist in the 1200 block of 107th Street. The caller, according to audio of the dispatch call, said he feared for his life. While on foot, deputies encountered a 16-year-old boy who matched the description. They spotted a handgun tucked into his pants, according to statements by the Sheriff's Department. When they ordered him not to move, the teen ignored the deputies' commands and took off running into an apartment complex known as a gang hangout, Bergner has said previously. After entering a courtyard, the young man turned toward the deputies and one of them fired about 10 shots. The teenager was struck "several times" in the upper body, the department said in a statement. Authorities said a gun carried by the boy may have been taken by someone in the crowd that converged on the scene. After the shooting, neighbors flooded the courtyard and the two deputies called for additional help to control the crowd as it swelled to 30 or 40 people. Deputies believe the gun went missing during the commotion, Bergner has said. At Wednesday's meeting, Sheriff's Chief Joe Gooden said the deputies involved were not wearing body cameras, but noted that the department is working on a body-camera program. "It's not as simple as giving every deputy a camera," he said. [email protected] For more crime news, follow @nicolesantacruz on Twitter. Times staff writers Alene Tchekmedyian, Angel Jennings and Javier Panzar contributed to this report. UPDATES: Feb. 8, 11:50 a.m.: This article has been updated with audio from the town hall meeting. Feb. 8, 9:25 a.m.: This article has been updated with a response from the Sheriff's Department. This article was originally published at 10:25 p.m. on Feb. 7. |