75 March to Protest Tyisha Miller Shooting
Critics of the Riverside police shooting of Tyisha Miller conducted another of their weekly protest marches Monday, attracting about 75 demonstrators but this time not prompting any arrests for civil disobedience.
One speaker, NAACP Western Regional Director Frank Berry, admonished the group to demonstrate its anger by registering to vote. He contended that Riverside County Dist. Atty. Grover Trask decided not to file criminal charges against the four officers who killed Miller because “he looks at who votes and who doesn’t, and he made his decision in order to stay in office. . . . If you don’t vote, you don’t count.”
Miller was killed Dec. 28 after officers, responding to a 911 call, found the teenager passed out in her locked vehicle with a gun in her lap. They said they opened fire when, after they broke a window to grab the gun, she moved for the weapon.
Prosecutors criticized the officers’ tactics but said they did not rise to the level of criminal negligence.
The Police Department has not decided whether to take disciplinary action against the officers involved in the shooting, which is also being investigated by the FBI.
Protesters Monday marched through the lobby of Riverside City Hall and ended the march at the Riverside County district attorney’s office.
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