A resident had told police there was an unhoused person outside her mobile home park and that the previous day she had seen him holding a knife.
A Tustin police officer will face no criminal charges for the fatal shooting of a man who was holding a wooden pole and a bag of empty cans and bottles, the California Department of Justice said.Crime and Public Safety |Feds hit ex-Pittsburg cop with new felony charge in massive police scandal
Three officers arrived at 10:14 a.m. and a fourth within about a minute. Officer Estela Silva took the lead in the encounter, approaching a man who was lying down, apparently asleep, in a planting area where a 7-foot-tall hedge abutted a brick wall. Silva later said she believed the pole was metal, and “when he held it up as a baseball bat, I thought he was gonna bash my face in.”concludes: “The evidence does not show, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Officer Silva acted without the intent to defend herself or other officers from what she reasonably believed to be an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury. Therefore, there is insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecution of Officer Silva.
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