The LAPD officer who murdered this little girl should be in jail.
There doesn’t need to be a lengthy investigation because the bodycam footage clearly shows a crime committed by the LAPD officer.
The only time you should discharge your weapon is if your life or someone’s else life is in immediate danger. The suspect, in this case, Daniel Elena-Lopez, had a bike lock, but as you can see from the bodycam footage at the time the cops approached him, he wasn’t near anyone and was moving away from the cops, not towards them.
He never swung any weapon, and the closest victim was at least 10 feet away from him.
On top of that, the cop never made sure to clear the entire building, and this cop was told that the suspect was near a dressing room where people could potentially be. Now, the taxpayers will be the ones paying for this cop mistake, and he gets to go home to his family after he has destroyed not one but two families.
The video shows a 24-year-old suspect identified as Daniel Elena-Lopez entering the Burlington Coat Factory store in North Hollywood with his bike and wearing a tank top and shorts. He takes the escalator upstairs with his bike.
Moments later, he returns to the escalators wearing a multicolored jacket and long pants before swinging his bike lock at customers, according to police. He is seen attacking several female customers.
Several body camera videos released by police show a woman on the floor covered in blood as officers arrive and attempt to find the suspect, who, according to a police statement on Friday, was a short distance away.
An officer can be heard on the body camera footage firing three bullets toward the suspect, who later falls to the ground. Video shows the officer firing a rifle at the suspect.
Valentina was in a dressing room with her mother when a bullet aimed at the suspect passed through the wall, fatally striking the teenager. Valentina was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest, coroner records show.
“Was the use of the patrol rifle justified?” he asked Monday night on CNN. “And … if you’re going to fire a (.223) round inside of a department store, those rounds can easily rip through a body and keep right on moving through dry wall. So the use of force must be looked at.”
Barksdale said that the suspect did not appear to be moving toward a victim or an officer when he was shot.
The cop is a PAID leave.
I hope he is haunted for the rest of his life and burns in hell.
Flip the pages for the bodycam footage.
