LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of an unarmed man fatally shot by police in suburban Los Angeles are calling for a federal civil rights investigation of the police department involved.
Attorneys for the family of Ricardo Diaz-Zeferino and a man wounded in the 2013 shooting filed a letter Wednesday asking the Justice Department to investigate the Gardena Police Department.
Newly released videos show Diaz-Zeferino with his palms open at waist-level when officers shoot him eight times. A second man with his hands up, Eutiquio Acevedo-Mendez, survived a gunshot wound to the back.
Gardena police fought aggressively to keep the videos under wraps. A federal judge ordered them released Tuesday, saying the public had a right to see them.
Gardena paid $4.7 million to settle a lawsuit with Diaz-Zeferino’s family and Acevedo-Mendez.
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