Family shares its view that an off-duty police officer’s deadly shooting of a man with disabilities in a Costco was 'completely unjustified;” police have said the man is accused of assaulting the off-duty officer without provocation.
in Southern California that left a 32-year-old man with disabilities dead and his parents injured was"completely unjustified" and prosecution of the officer should be considered, the man's family said in a statement.
"The family believes that shooting was excessive and completely unjustified because Mr. French was unarmed and posed no immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury to anyone," the family's statement read.
“There seems to be unequal treatment of police officers compared to other citizens when deadly force is used, causing death or serious bodily injury, which is a great concern to many members of the community,” Galipo has said, according to the statement.
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