ACTIVISTS PRESSURE PANEL COMMISSION REVIEWING LAPD SHOOTING.Byline: Dan Laidman Staff Writer A group of black leaders on Tuesday denounced the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County District Attorney's Office's decision not to prosecute the police officer who killed 13-year-old Devin Brown, while LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officials said their internal review should wrap up by mid-January. The response came a day after prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence insufficient evidence n. a finding (decision) by a trial judge or an appeals court that the prosecution in a criminal case or a plaintiff in a lawsuit has not proved the case because the attorney did not present enough convincing evidence. to file charges against the officer who fired 10 shots at the African-American teenager Feb. 6 as he backed a stolen car into a police cruiser at the end of a chase. Several dozen community activists came to voice their anger before the Police Commission, which will ultimately decide whether Officer Steven Garcia should be disciplined. ``The NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. is concerned,'' said Geraldine Washington, president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. . ``We intend to come back and stay until we get some justice.'' Activists, including Nation of Islam Nation of Islam: see Black Muslims. Nation of Islam or Black Muslims African American religious movement that mingles elements of Islam and black nationalism. It was founded in 1931 by Wallace D. Minister Tony Muhammad and Bethel AME See AIT. Church Pastor Lewis Logan, called for Garcia to be fired. Many directed their remarks at Police Commission President John Mack, a longtime civil-rights leader. ``We want justice,'' Logan said. ``Mr. Mack, you can make a difference.'' Mack called the Devin Brown case a ``high-priority matter'' that he and his colleagues are taking very seriously. ``The past eight months the ball was in the district attorney's court,'' he said. ``Now it is in our court.'' LAPD investigators will finish their probe within days and an internal use-of-force review board will consider the matter Dec. 28, said Chief William Bratton. The chief will then make a recommendation that he expects the Police Commission to consider in mid-January, weeks before the state deadline runs out for disciplining a peace officer. Andre Birotte Jr., the commission's inspector general, told the crowd that the District Attorney's Office report is not relevant to the administrative investigation. ``We do review this case with a fresh set of eyes,'' he said. A number of speakers echoed the criticism of a lawyer for Devin Brown's family, who said the report failed to emphasize Officer Garcia's location at the time of the shooting. Dan Laidman, (213) 978-0390 dan.laidman(at)dailynews.com |
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