No charges will be filed against three Los Angeles police officers who fatally shot an unarmed, mentally ill man on live television following a high-speed chase, the city’s top prosecutor said.
In a letter dated Jan. 29, first reported by The Associated Press, LA County District Attorney Jackie Lacey says her office found “there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt” that Officers Armando Corral, Leonardo Ortiz and Michael Ayala “did not act in self-defense and in defense of others” during the fatal 2013 shooting of 51-year-old Brian Beaird, a National Guard veteran.
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“They shot my son in cold blood,” Billy Beaird said after the city voted to pay a $5 million settlement to the Beaird family. “I would not trade my son’s life for every nickel in LA. He means that much to me. I could not believe what I saw.”
Read Lacey’s full letter, provided to HuffPost by the DA’s office, here.
