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California Cop Charged for Fatally Shooting Filipino Man in 2018

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    A police officer in Danville, California is facing felony charges for fatally shooting a Filipino man more than two years ago.

    What happened: Andrew Hall, of the Danville Police Department, shot Laudemer Arboleda, 33, during a traffic pursuit that lasted for nine minutes on Nov. 3, 2018.

    • Police reportedly chased Arboleda after receiving calls about a “suspicious” person knocking on houses and ringing doorbells.
    • Footage shows Hall trying to block Arboleda’s car and then fatally shooting him multiple times.
    • Arboleda, who was shot nine times, had been hospitalized for psychiatric reasons and was afraid of police taking him back there, his mother Jeannie Atienza told the Associated Press.

    The charges: Hall was charged with voluntary manslaughter and assault with a semi-automatic firearm on April 21, 2021.

    • In a statement, District Attorney Diana Becton said Hall had used “unreasonable and unnecessary force” which endangered not only Arboleda’s life “but the lives of fellow officers and citizens in the immediate area.”
    • Hall’s indictment came just a month after he shot Tyrell Wilson, a transient Black man — who was also mentally ill — for allegedly throwing rocks onto a freeway.
    • Civil rights attorney John Burris, who represents both families, said Hall failed to use de-escalation techniques in both cases, according to KGO.
    • “Our view was if they had been prosecuted earlier our second client would not be dead,” he said.

    Burris wants the Justice Department to examine the shootings for a possible pattern of racism. “All I know is a Black man and a Filipino man were both killed in a town that is predominantly white,” he told AP.

    Featured Image Screenshots via The Mercury News (left), KPIX CBS SF Bay Area (right)

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