Thread: LAPD Chief Charlie Beck vows to 'fast-track' probe

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck vows to 'fast-track' probe into fatal police shooting of day laborer

September 14, 2010 | 1:11 pm

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck vowed Tuesday to "fast-track" the investigation into the fatal shooting of a day laborer by a police officer near MacArthur Park.

Addressing the civilian board that oversees the LAPD, Beck said the inquiry would be completed "much sooner" than the eight months the department's Force Investigation Division typically requires to finish the several-hundred-page reports that follow such incidents.

Beck said he was uncertain when the report would be done.

The decision was an acknowledgment of the tense, highly charged atmosphere that erupted following the Sept. 5 killing of Manuel Jamines, a 37-year-old Guatemalan day laborer.

In the encounter, a trio of officers confronted Jamines on a street corner in the Westlake neighborhood after a passerby alerted the officers that Jamines was threatening people with a knife. The officers repeatedly ordered Jamines in English and Spanish to drop the knife.

Beck and other officials have said Jamines, who also used the names Manuel Ramirez and Gregorio Luis Perez, raised the knife over his head and moved toward Officer Frank Hernandez, a 13-year veteran. Hernandez fired at least twice, striking Jamines in the head.


For a few nights afterward, hundreds of people from the neighborhood, instigated by outside groups, took to the streets to protest the shooting. The rallies turned ugly, with people hurling bottles and other objects at the scores of cops who were called in to patrol the neighborhood, which has a large number of Central American immigrants and is considered one of the most densely populated in the country.
“This is an incident that has considerable interest in it from a lot of different perspectives," Beck said in an interview. "I felt it was important for the whole city, not just the department, that we get the facts out as soon as possible.â€

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck vowed Tuesday to "fast-track" the investigation into the fatal shooting of a day laborer by a police officer near MacArthur Park.

What's to investigate? Investigate why it is that a drunk illegal invader was allowed to receive sanctuary in Los Angeles without being deported, ultimately resulting in an assault upon a police officer where that officer feared for his life.

I guess the illegal invader community will not be satisfied unless some sort of charge is brought against this police officer, who's actually a hero and did the city of Los Angeles and its law abiding citizens a huge favor. I smell it coming.

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck vowed Tuesday to "fast-track" the investigation into the fatal shooting of a day laborer by a police officer near MacArthur Park.

What's to investigate? Investigate why it is that a drunk illegal invader was allowed to receive sanctuary in Los Angeles without being deported, ultimately resulting in an assault upon a police officer where that officer feared for his life.

I guess the illegal invader community will not be satisfied unless some sort of charge is brought against this police officer, who's actually a hero and did the city of Los Angeles and its law abiding citizens a huge favor. I smell it coming.

come now , you should know that the law doesn't apply to illegal immgrants .... they are upset that we are trying to enforce one of our laws called "attempted murder" upon them .....