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Los Angeles is poised to pay nearly $1.6 million to settle three lawsuits involving alleged wrongdoing by the Los Angeles Police Department, including a $1.15-million payout over the shooting of a man from an LAPD helicopter.
The City Council voted 12-1 on Wednesday to approve the payouts, with Councilman Joe Buscaino casting the sole dissenting vote.
The LAPD and the Los Angeles city attorney’s office declined to comment on the settlements, which allow the city to resolve the claims without admitting liability.
The cases represent part of a larger phenomenon: Over roughly the past 5½ years, Los Angeles paid out more than $245 million to resolve legal claims involving the Police Department more than a third of the total amount of liability payouts for the city during that period, according to a Times analysis of city records.
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The Los Angeles Police Department’s handling of the 2020 summer protests following George Floyd’s death highlighted the agency’s failure to adequately train officers, antiquated tactics and a chaos of command system, among other missteps, according to a recent independent report. An Independent Examination of the Los Angeles Police Department - 2020 Protest Response, which was commissioned by the city council and made public Thursday, excoriated the LAPD for the department’s actions during last summer’s protests, blaming the agency for a litany of missteps made on the city’s streets. It covered institutional issues but did not address allegations of misconduct and excessive force against individual officers.