Matthew Concannon, Anthony Chavez face voluntary manslaughter charges in the shooting death of Christopher Deandre Mitchell.
Two Torrance police officers will face voluntary manslaughter charges in a 2018 shooting after Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón decided to reopen a case his predecessor declined to prosecute, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.
“It’s been four and a half years, still counting, that this family has been fighting,” said Terrell Traylor, Mitchell’s uncle, outside the courthouse.In December 2018, Concannon and Chavez were responding to reports of a man driving a stolen vehicle and came upon Mitchell in a Ralph’s parking lot in Torrance, according to an earlier district attorney’s office memo clearing the officers of wrongdoing.
The officers described the weapon, later determined to be a “break barrel air rifle,” as “pinched” between Mitchell’s legs, though neither alleged he grabbed it or pointed it at them before they shot him. Messages sent by unidentified officers used the N-word to describe Mitchell’s loved ones and celebrated other officers’ decision to use force against protesters who supported Mitchell’s family during a demonstration in front of the Torrance City Council. Several of the officers who used racist language in the messages were also later accused of using excessive force against protesters, according to multiple civil lawsuits filed in recent years.
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