Supervisors to Ask Probe of 4 Slayings by Deputies
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, increasing public scrutiny of the Sheriff’s Department, voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the county grand jury to investigate four fatal shootings by deputies since Aug. 3.
The motion was introduced by Kenneth Hahn in response to the Aug. 13 slaying of Keith Hamilton, a mentally disturbed man who was shot eight times in the back and once in the top of his shoulder outside his mother’s home in Ladera Heights. Supervisor Gloria Molina amended the motion to include the three other shootings in order to give the grand jury “the opportunity to look at the scope of the problem.”
The board last week voted to request that Sheriff Sherman Block’s new citizens advisory panel make an investigation of the Hamilton shooting its first order of business.
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