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A former Cathedral City police officer and Palm Springs Unified School District patrol officer who was arrested on Inauguration Day pleaded not guilty Monday to a charge of illegally owning an assault rifle discovered during a search of his home as part of an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation of domestic extremism.
Alfredo Luna Jr., 41, was working as a patrol officer for Palm Springs Unified School District at the time of his arrest. Luna was put on paid administrative leave soon after, but no longer works for that department as of April 7.
Luna submitted his plea to Judge James Hawkins at the Larson Justice Center in Indio, and requested that his bail be reduced from $250,000 to $35,000. The request was not ruled on during Monday s hearing and he is due in court again to discuss the matter on June 18.
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Demonstrators raise their arms and chant Hands up, don t shoot on Aug. 17, 2014, as they protest the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Ronell Foster was riding his bicycle through the hushed streets of Vallejo, Calif., one evening when a police officer noticed that the bike had no lights and that he was weaving in and out of traffic.
The officer, Ryan McMahon, went after Foster with lights flashing, siren blaring and the car’s spotlight pointed directly at him. Foster stopped. The pair exchanged words before Foster, who was on community supervision for a car theft conviction a month earlier, fled, eventually ditching the bicycle. McMahon caught up with Foster and jumped on top of him. The two struggled. McMahon, a rookie on the force, tasered the father of two and struck him several times with his department-issued flashlight. Gunfire erupted seven shots total. When it was over, Foster, 33, lay dying in the bushes in a darken