COUNTY SEEKS REVIEW OF JAIL DEATH.Byline: Staff and Wire Services 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. - Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday Tuesday: see week. to seek an independent counsel's review of the Twin Towers jail death of a homeless Palmdale man. Special Counsel Merrick Bobb will review the case along with reports from outside medical experts of his own choosing, and report back to the board in 90 days. The issue arose after the supervisors two weeks ago approved a $600,000 payment to the sisters of Kevin Evans Ev·ans , Herbert McLean 1882-1971. American anatomist who isolated four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1922). , who died in October 1999 during a struggle with deputies who were trying to strap him to a jail bed. Evans, 33, had been sent to Twin Towers by a Lancaster Superior Court judge after he was stopped by a deputy for pushing a shopping cart. An autopsy found damage to his neck as well as evidence of severe heart disease, and attributed his death to heart disease and ``the effects of restraint against combative com·bat·ive adj. Eager or disposed to fight; belligerent. See Synonyms at argumentative. com·bat  ive·ly adv. behavior.''
The request to Bobb was substituted for Supervisor Gloria Molina's original motion to hire a consultant and provide a budget to review and make recommendations on existing use-of-force policies in the Sheriff's Department. The use of force is already within Bobb's purview The part of a statute or a law that delineates its purpose and scope. Purview refers to the enacting part of a statute. It generally begins with the words be it enacted and continues as far as the repealing clause. and doesn't require another consultant, several supervisors said. Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. did not attend Tuesday's meeting of the Board of Supervisors. Baca previously welcomed Molina's call for a consultant but maintained that he thought deputies responded appropriately in the Evans case. Tuesday's board action also directs the county counsel to issue monthly reports on the status of all pending cases alleging excessive force. The supervisors met in closed session Monday to interview the three finalists to head the newly created office of independent review, which Baca formed to oversee his department's internal affairs Internal affairs may refer to:
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