Police Shooting of Latinas in Dorner Case Violate Los Angeles Police Regulations

Eight officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) will have to answer to accusations in relation to the case of two Latinas who were inside a truck that was shot over 100 times by the police.

According to The Los Angeles Times, eight police officers have been accused of violating LAPD regulations on the use of lethal force, when they mistakenly shot two Latinas during the hunt for Christopher Dorner, a former police officers that was sought for the murder of various people in early February 2013.

A civilian supervisory council determined that the officers committed serious violations when they shot at the truck more than 100 times in which 47-year-old Margie Carranza and her mother, 71-year-old Emma Hernández, were riding as they handed out newspapers.

Miraculously, both women were not severely injured during the shooting, and received a compensation of $4.2 million from the city of Los Angeles, according to CNN.

The Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Charles Beck, told the media that the officers assigned to the case had been removed from their duties and transferred to desk jobs while an internal investigation takes place to determine the disciplinary measures that will be applied, which range from extensive re-training to the loss of their jobs as LAPD officers.

"I sympathize with the officers, but I uphold a very high standard for the use of lethal force and the shooting did not comply with that standard," said Beck during a press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 4, according to CNN.

In late January of last year, Officer Christopher Dorner murdered the daughter of a former police officer and two police officers, beleiving that had unfairly fired from the LAPD. The man hunt for Dorner took over 10 days, ending in the California mountains in a police shoot out that took Dorner's life. 

On Feb. 7, various LAPD officers standing guard inside the house of a person who had been called a target by Dorner, shot against a truck they confused with Dorner's vehicle.

Dorner was killed on Feb. 12 as he was hiding inside a cabin in Bear Lake, Calif.