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Public speakers urge independent review and special prosecutor amid Rampart fallout
Summary
Public commenters at the special council meeting pressed elected officials to endorse an independent review of the Rampart scandal and to support a state special prosecutor. Legal and community groups described alleged misconduct at demonstrations and urged the council to back a monitoring and prosecution pathway beyond a consent decree.
A cluster of public speakers used the Sept. 18 special Los Angeles City Council meeting to press elected officials to go beyond a consent decree and back independent review and criminal accountability for alleged police misconduct.
Who spoke: Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law professor, urged approval of the consent decree but said it should be only the beginning of reform and that the city should pursue other measures including stronger civilian oversight. Local lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild and the Coalition for Police Accountability urged the council to endorse a request…
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