Activists and family members of a man shot and killed by LAPD officers in Boyle Heights flooded a Police Commission meeting Tuesday to denounce the department’s handling of the incident.
Police officials said Jeremy Flores, 26, was shot last month as he sat in a van holding what turned out to be an Airsoft rifle, which shoots plastic pellets.
More than half a dozen people who spoke at the meeting called for the immediate release of unedited body camera footage from the July 14 incident. Under state law, police have to release video within 45 days of a shooting by officers.
“I just want justice for my son,” Flores’ mother, Isabella Rivera, told the commission by phone. “Nobody wants to call LAPD anymore because we are scared of them: There is too much violence.”
She joined other speak