The three officers who fired dozens of shots at 23-year-old Erik Salgado claimed he tried to ram them with a stolen Dodge Charger, which the previous District Attorney's office concluded they couldn't disprove.
A disturbing history of domestic violence, verbal clashes with colleagues and constituents, and vocal support for Vallejo police defined the former council member’s turbulent tenure.
One of five men fatally shot by Vallejo police in recent years, Angel Ramos, will be getting some kind of justice after the city has agreed to pay his family $2.8 million to settle a wrongful death case.
A review by the <i>Guardian</i> of data maintained by Mapping Police Violence shows that nearly one-third of the people killed by police in the US were running away, driving off or attempting to flee.