The attorney for a Filipino man killed by a Danville, California, police officer in 2018 said the delay until last week in prosecuting the officer for the 2018 shooting allowed the same officer to go on to gun down a Black man last month.
Civil rights attorney John Burris is representing the mother of 33-year-old Laudemer Arboleda, an unarmed Filipino man who was fatally shot by Danville officer Andrew Hall in 2018.
Tyrell Wilson, 32, was fatally shot by Andrew Hall on March 11 after being suspected of throwing rocks onto the freeway. Body camera footage of the shooting was released on Wednesday, April 21. (Photos: Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department/YouTube screenshots)
A 2018 slow traffic pursuit in
Danville, California turned fatal when prosecutors say a police officer unjustifiably shot a man nine times. Over two years later, former deputy
Andrew Hall is being charged with felony voluntary manslaughter and felony assault with a semi-automatic firearm for the shooting death of 33 year-old
Laudemer Arboleda.
“Officer Hall used unreasonable and unnecessary force when he responded to the in-progress traffic pursuit involving Laudemer Arboleda, endangering not only Mr. Arboleda’s life but the lives of his fellow officers and citizens in the immediate area,” Contra Costa County
District Attorney Diana Becton said in a statement on Wednesday.
47-Year-Old Man Dies Following Arrest
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A 47-year-old man died Wednesday morning after he was arrested for reportedly causing a disturbance at a Richmond business.
Police responded to a 10:35 a.m. report of a man damaging property inside a business in the 12600 block of San Pablo Avenue.
Officers arrived and found a man who was stumbling and who fell to the ground and appeared to be in medical distress or under the influence of drugs, police said. They tried to calm the man and provided medical assistance until paramedics arrived.
Officers placed the man in a prone position and one officer placed his knee on the man s lower back to handcuff him.