A civilian oversight board announced eight Los Angeles Police Department officers did not adhere to department policy after firing more than 100 shots at a mistaken pick-up truck during the manhunt for cop-turned-killer Christopher Dorner who went on a 10-day killing spree last year, the Associated Press reported.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and Alex Bustamante, the inspector general for the Los Angeles Police Commission, both recommended the the numerous shootings which occurred during the manhunt be ruled out of policy, according to President Steve Soboroff, the AP reported.
After months of investigating and a three-hour long discussion the police commission took Beck and Bustamante's recommendation about the shooting and stated the "lethal use of force" was "out of policy," according to the AP.
Beck will be responsible for deciding if the officers will be suspended, fired or will be required to undergo extensive retraining, but all eight have already been reassigned to non-field duties during the investigation, the AP reported. The eight officers in question all unnecasily shot at similar pick up trucks due to the decription of Dorner's car.
"These officers will all and have all received extensive training as had the whole Los Angeles Police Department relative to these types of issues," Beck said, the AP reported.
The two women who were in the pickup truck shot at by officers were already awarded $4.2 million, plus another $40,000 for the loss of their truck, according to the AP.
"There is no evidence to support that they were holding an object that could be reasonably perceived to be an imminent deadly threat," Beck wrote in his report, the AP reported. "I sympathize with the officers, but I have a very high standard for the application of deadly force, and the shooting did not meet that standard," he said Tuesday.
"This was a tragic cascade of circumstances that led to an inaccurate conclusion by the officers," he added.
