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LA MESA, Calif. (AP) — A police officer who struck a woman with a beanbag projectile...

LA MESA (KUSI) – A La Mesa police officer who fired a beanbag round that struck a woman in the head during a protest at La Mesa police headquarters will not face criminal charges, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. The DA’s Office review concluded that Detective Eric Knudson used reasonable force “in light of the totality of circumstances” when he fired on 59-year-old Leslie Furcron, who attended a May 30 protest that happened less than a week after George Floyd’s in-custody death in Minneapolis and a few days after the controversial arrest of 23-...

909 6 minutes read Just two days after the May 25 killing of George Floyd, Amaurie Johnson was harassed and assaulted by La Mesa police in San Diego County while waiting for his friend to pick him up. In cell phone videos that went viral, Amaurie Johnson was assaulted by now former officer Matt Dages.  A call for justice by Johnson then sparked a protest on May 30 in which thousands of San Diego residents rose up against the La Mesa Police Department. While using her phone to record the protest on May 30, 59-year old Leslie Furcron was shot between the eyes with a “bean bag” round by...

Print A woman partially blinded by a police beanbag round during a protest in La Mesa in late May has sued the officer who fired the round, accusing him of battery. In a lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court last week, Leslie Furcron also claims Detective Eric Knudson inflicted emotional distress and violated her First Amendment right to protest. Among other allegations, the lawsuit contends Knudson violated the Police Department’s policies and standard law enforcement practices, alleging he fired a beanbag round into a large crowd at a long distance and aimed at Furcron’s head inste...