Reversal clears LAPD officer faulted for firing two extra bullets in fatal 2020 shooting

LAPD officer Toni McBride‘s final shots, initially ruled out of policy, are now considered justified after a hearing examiner’s reversal. Los Angeles police officer Toni McBride, a gun rights influencer on social media and daughter of a high-ranking police union official, has been cleared of wrongdoing in a fatal shooting where she was previously faulted for continuing to fire bullets into a man who’d fallen to the ground. In response to an inquiry by The Times, the commission issued a brief statement repeating its previous ruling from December 2020: “The Board found the first four rounds fired by the involved officer to be in policy, and the fifth and sixth rounds fired to be out of policy.” Interim Chief Dominic Choi, who has the authority to override the hearing examiner’s decision, declined to comment. Arnoldo Casillas, an attorney for Hernandez’s estate, called the hearing examiner’s decision “another shameless example of the LAPD whitewashing officer misconduct.” McBride filed her own suit against the city, accusing former chief Michel Moore of retaliating against her by ordering her to delete her social media accounts, which showed her firing guns at shooting competitions and on training ranges. California Former British police officer chosen to lead LAPD watchdog Django Sibley, who spent about two decades in the LAPD inspector general’s office, will be the next executive director of the Los Angeles Police Commission.