Bay Area cop sentenced to 6 years in prison in fatal shooting of unarmed Filipino man

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So this mentally ill man is driving down the street at 6 MPH,
and this cop steps in front of the car to put nine bullets in the guy?

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A Northern California police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man driving a slow-moving car in 2018 was sentenced Friday to six years in prison. Andrew Hall of the Danville Police Department fatally shot Laudemer Arboleda, a 33-year-old Filipino-American man, while he was driving six miles per hour. Hall was convicted of assault with a firearm in October 2021, but the jury couldn’t reach a verdict on a manslaughter charge. He could’ve faced anything from probation to 17 years in prison.

Officers began interacting with Arboleda on Nov. 3, 2018, when they got a call about a man knocking on doors and loitering outside homes in Danville, about 15 miles east of Oakland in the East Bay. Weeks earlier, Arboleda had been involuntarily committed to a mental hospital and prescribed medicine for psychosis and schizophrenia, according to his family. His used to live in the neighborhood where he was door-knocking.

Arboleda proceeded to lead police on a low speed, stop-and-start car chase through Danville. Hall was not involved for most of the chase, but he joined at the end, using his police vehicle to block Arboleda in an intersection. Hall then walked in front of Arboleda’s vehicle, as seen on body-camera and dashboard-camera videos. He opened fire while backing away; his shots traveled through the windshield and passenger’s seat window.

Of the 10 shots that Hall fired, nine struck Arboleda. Arboleda’s car was moving six miles per hour when he was killed.
Despite video evidence being available since 2018,
Hall wasn’t charged until April 2021.
Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton said the delay was caused by a backlog of investigations into police shootings.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/bay-area-cop-sentenced-to-6-years-in-prison-in-fatal-shooting-of-unarmed-filipino-man/ar-AAUCJY9?li=BBnbcA1

[Karadeniz]

1. Sickeningly.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Justice "delayed was caused by a backlog of investigations into police shootings."

Backlog of investigating police shootings. I'd say they have a crisis in their mist!