LAPPL News Watch
May 29, 2020
Just
one day after protestors took to the streets in downtown Los Angeles,
several Southland police departments issued statements condemning the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis.
Late Thursday evening, the Los Angeles Police Protective League
released a statement that said the union agreed with National
Association of Police Organizations Executive Director Bill Johnson who
said he could not see “any legal justification, any self-defense
justification, or any moral justification” for what was shown on the
video.
“What we saw on that video was inconsistent and contrary to
everything we have been taught, not just as an academy recruit or a
police officer, but as human beings,” the statement said. “Reverence for
life in every incident a police officer encounters must be the floor
and not the ceiling.”
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