This was one in all six police capturing circumstances Worth slated for reconsideration by her newly-formed PAU shortly after taking workplace in 2023.
Final month, an Alameda County choose threw out involuntary manslaughter expenses towards two of three officers accused within the loss of life of Mario Gonzalez in 2021, the one different case of the six that has been reinvestigated. Worth filed expenses towards the officers in April after they’d initially been cleared of wrongdoing by Worth’s predecessor.
Round 9:19 p.m. on Nov. 15, 2018, the 2 officers shot Gonsalez a number of instances in entrance of 24697 Oneil Avenue, in keeping with the report. Gonsalez had been approaching Wooley brandishing a razor blade, which the officer believed was a knife. Gonsalez had fourteen bullet wounds, however investigators couldn’t decide what number of bullets he was struck by or which officer they got here from.
The report concluded that the officers’ actions had been cheap beneath the assumption that Gonsalez posed an imminent menace to security.
The brand new report stated that the earlier investigation of the incident “did not fully explore the tactical decisions made by the officers, the standards imposed by modern police practices or how their decisions might have escalated the situation resulting in the tragic death of Mr. Gonsalez.” It additionally stated that it didn’t embrace “recommendations or lessons learned.”
Adams concluded that there have been components of the Hayward Police Division’s coaching and insurance policies that could possibly be modernized with evidence-based policing approaches, in keeping with the report.
