LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police commissioners this week ruled that officers were justified in shooting two people suffering mental health crisises, though the group echoed LAPD Chief Michel Moore's concerns over tactics officers used in one of the encounters.
The civilian-led panel unanimously supported Moore's conclusions that the officers were in line with the Los Angeles Police Department's policies on deadly force when they shot Evelyn Del Real and Grisha Alaverdyan last fall. The commission took the 5-0 vote while in closed session at the end of its weekly meeting Tuesday.
Both cases were highlighted in a Times story about the high number of people with mental illnesses who were shot by LAPD officers. The article found that about a third of the more than 30 people shot by LAPD officers in the first 11 months of last year were believed to have had a mental illness at the time.
