City leaders in Vallejo, California, ratified an agreement Tuesday night allowing the state Dept. of Justice to review and reform its embattled police department.
on McCoy's death concluded that officers acted reasonably when they fired 55 shots at him within 3.5 seconds. The officers had said they feared they were going to be shot by McCoy after he suddenly woke up inside his car and appeared to be grabbing for a firearm on his lap.
Mayor Bob Sampayan, a retired police sergeant in Vallejo, said in a statement that"there is more that we know we can do to help the department get where it needs to be" and that the city"will not hide from a thorough review" into the fatal shooting of Monterrosa on June 2. Police said the officer who killed Monterrosa was responding to a report of a looting at a Walgreens store. The officer, whom the city has not identified, fired five times through a windshield after he believed Monterrosa was armed with a gun and was kneeling"in preparation to shoot," police said. It was later discovered Monterrosa had a hammer in his sweatshirt pocket, not a firearm, according to authorities.
The city said the agreement with the Justice Department was in the works for months and not done specifically as a result of Monterrosa's death. Neither the city nor an attorney with the
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