Police commission: LAPD unjustified in killing unarmed homeless man

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published 13 April 2016

A civilian oversight board has determined that Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Officer Clifford Proctor was not justified in his fatal shooting of Brendon Glenn, an unarmed homeless man, at Venice Beach in May of 2015.

By Proctor's account, he and his partner responded to a report that Glenn had been harassing people and found him to be intoxicated and aggressive. Proctor told investigators that Glenn reached for his partner's gun during an altercation, which prompted him to shoot.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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