In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death at police hands, California stepped up with a plan: Put the state in charge of investigating police shootings of unarmed people. CalMatters says so far, the Justice Department is struggling to keep up.
Since the Legislature halved its funding request, Bonta said, the state has to wait for local agencies to report their own fatal encounters — possibly sacrificing some of the department’s perceived independence in the eyes of the public.
“We got the funding that we got, and we’re going to make it work. We have no choice. We have to find a way.”Democratic Assemblymember Kevin McCarty of Sacramento, who sponsored the bill that became law, has argued that the department has ample funding to get the job done. Protests in the summer of 2020 focused on district attorneys in Los Angeles and Alameda counties who had never prosecuted a police officer who killed an unarmed person. That tension helped spawn the new law, which added a layer of accountability at the state level. But the attorney general’s selection of cases has not been without controversy.
“Any death at the hands of law enforcement would have a thorough, independent, transparent investigation,” he said.
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