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A String Of LAPD Shootings Raises Questions
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Six LAPD shootings in eight days. Two dead suspects. Four of the incidents involved people with guns, two of them involved people with other weapons.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore calls the cluster of shootings from March 16-23 "striking", but insists the shootings are unrelated. Use of force expert Ed Obayashi agrees, saying, "I don't make much of it at all."
But Melina Abdullah of Black Lives Matter says the shootings are proof that Moore "is enabling his officers to just run amok in our communities."
There were 27 police shootings in 2020 and 26 in 2019, both 30-year lows.
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So is this recent spike a sign that the department is getting trigger happy?
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