LOS ANGELES—A national pro-police organization has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the high court to overturn an appellate decision that reversed a ruling shielding a Los Angeles police officer from liability in a fatal shooting, it was announced Dec. 4.
The brief filed by the National Police Association asks the court to reaffirm decisions made by now-retired Los Angeles Police Department Officer Toni McBride in April 2020 when she fired her weapon to subdue a knife-wielding assailant—the final shots fired while the suspect was rolling on the ground, court papers show.
A Los Angeles County investigation deemed the shooting justified, as did a federal judge and a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, but in a sharply divided 6–5 vote, a review by a full panel of the 9th Circuit upended that outcome….