Editorial: Sheriff's shooting costs taxpayers $25 million. Where's the accountability?
Los Angeles Times -

Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials concluded that two deputies acted within department policy when they confronted and one of them shot Isaias Cervantes, a mentally disabled man in his home in 2021. A corrective action plan (at least, the portion that is public) identified nothing in sheriff's policies or procedures that needs to be changed to prevent a similar shooting. So it seems incongruous that county lawyers are suggesting that the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday sign off on an...

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