COUNCIL QUESTIONS PARKS ON SHOOTING; CHIEF MEETS PANEL IN CLOSED SESSION.Byline: Deborah Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. members went behind closed doors Friday to meet with Police Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. , quizzing him about why police officers pursued and killed a mentally ill woman with a shopping cart. Representatives of the City Attorney's Office said the council was advised to hold the closed session because of the possibility of a lawsuit against the city due to the death. City Hall sources said council members were troubled by the pursuit that led up to the fatal shooting of the homeless woman two weeks ago near Hancock Park
Hancock Park is a park in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California which is the location of the La Brea Tar Pits, the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, and LACMA. . ``I think everybody finds that to be quite disturbing what has happened,'' said Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas. ``It is not a very pleasant matter at all. And I think it cannot be established at this time that it was a good shooting.'' Police officials said their inquiry is unfinished. ``The investigation is continuing and all aspects of the incident, including what led up to the confrontation, will be thoroughly investigated and reviewed at the highest level,'' said Police Cmdr. Dave Kalish. Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . officers do not target homeless people in particular but do address problems related to stolen shopping carts, he said. ``The reality is, we deal with quality of life issue, sometimes they involve homeless issues, but I wouldn't want to give the impression that the department is targeting or excessively focusing on homeless people stealing shopping carts,'' Kalish said. ``However, clearly we have an obligation to address the issue of the stolen carts that belong to the merchants, and have an obligation to address quality of life issues.'' A police ``fact sheet'' on the fatal confrontation described how two bicycle patrol officers, Edward Larrigan lar·ri·gan also Lar·ri·gan n. A moccasin with knee-high leggings made of oiled leather. [Origin unknown.] and Kathy Clark, approached Margaret Mitchell, 55, who was pushing a shopping cart on La Brea Avenue La Brea Avenue is a prominent north/south thoroughfare in Los Angeles. After Hawthorne Boulevard intersects with Century Boulevard in Inglewood, La Brea Avenue is formed. La Brea passes north through Windsor Hills, Baldwin Hills, and Ladera Heights. near 3rd Street on May 21. Mitchell evaded the officers and yelled for them to leave her alone, then stopped and faced them a block away, using her shopping cart as a barrier, according to the report. The police dismounted their bicycles, and Mitchell wielded a 12-inch screwdriver, threatening to kill them if they approached, the report said. As Larrigan prepared to spray Mitchell with chemical spray, a motorist tried to intervene. Mitchell fled, and the officers followed her on foot. Larrigan began to radio for help, when Mitchell lunged toward him with the screwdriver. He dropped to a crouch and fired one shot through her chest, the report stated. She died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world-renowned hospital located in Los Angeles, California. History Cedars-Sinai is the result of a merger in 1961 between two major Los Angeles hospitals, Cedars of Lebanon and Mount Sinai Home for the Incurables, with Steve Broidy as from the wound, which a medical examiner A public official charged with investigating all sudden, suspicious, unexplained, or unnatural deaths within the area of his or her appointed jurisdiction. A medical examiner differs from a Coroner in that a medical examiner is a physician. described as traveling through her chest, from front to back, slightly upward. |
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