In reaching its conclusion, a divided commission broke with LAPD Chief Michel Moore, who recommended the commission find Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr.'s decision to shoot was unreasonable and violated the LAPD's policy on deadly force. The commission also ruled that the tactics that five officers and a supervising sergeant used while confronting the assailant were improper. All but one commissioner voted to accept Moore's recommendation that the second and third shots ran afoul of department policy. The commission also ruled that the tactics that five officers and a supervising sergeant used while confronting the assailant were improper. It is unknown which officers' tactics the commission found lacking because the panel did not name officers in announcing its findings.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 23, 2022 22:57 UTC