California attorney general to review fatal shooting by Vallejo police
Former California Assemblyman Rob Bonta speaks during a news conference in March shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his nomination for state attorney general. As attorney general, Bonta announced that his office will review a fatal shooting by a Vallejo police officer.
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May 13, 2021 6:21 PM PT
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California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced Thursday that his office will review a fatal shooting by a Vallejo police officer on a night of unrest following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Bonta, who recently took over as attorney general after his predecessor, Xavier Becerra, joined the Biden administration, made the unusual decision to intervene in the case of the Vallejo killing after a local prosecutor refused to do so. Bonta criticized Solano County Dist. Atty. Krishna Abrams, who he said had “unilaterally abdicated her responsibility” to look int
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FAIRFIELD The California Department of Justice will investigate the June 2020 police shooting death of Sean Monterrosa in Vallejo to determine whether criminal charges are warranted.
The Attorney General’s Office was particularly critical Thursday of Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams, stating that she had “abdicated her responsibility as the elected district attorney and refused to conduct a review of the Vallejo Police Department’s investigation of the incident.”
“Without accountability, there is no justice,” Attorney General Rob Bonta said in the statement released Thursday.
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California’s new Attorney General, Rob Bonta, took the podium at his first news conference on May 11 to announce the formation of a Racial Justice Bureau, charged with addressing bias and hate “at their roots” and strengthening responses to hate crimes throughout the state.
The Bureau, which will initially bring together six new attorneys and a new deputy attorney general as part of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Enforcement Section, comes into being as Californians throughout the state deal with a pandemic-related surge of hate crimes against Asian Americans, white supremacist activity, and repeated instances of police violence.
VALLEJO A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the Sept. 2 death of Harold Leaks in Vallejo.
David S. Barnett was arrested May 6 in Livermore. He was booked into Solano County jail on suspicion of first-degree murder. He was held without bail.
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California s attorney general announced Thursday that his office will conduct an independent review of an officer-involved shooting that left a 22-year-old San Francisco man dead last year to determine whether charges are warranted.
Sean Monterrosa was killed June 2, 2020 by a Vallejo police officer responding to a Walgreens amid reports of looting. The officer, Jarrett Tonn, said he mistook a hammer on Monterrosa s waist for a gun and shot him several times. Without accountability, there is no justice, said state Attorney General Rob Bonta