The parents of a 14-year-old girl killed by Los Angeles police in a Burlington store last year have filed a lawsuit against the LAPD and the officer whose rifle round pierced a dressing room wall.
police walked through the store in a formation, body-camera video shows. Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr., wielding a rifle, pushed to the front of the pack even as other officers repeatedly said "slow down" and "slow it down."
The officers saw a woman crawling on the blood-stained floor and Lopez on the other side of the aisle, according to the video footage. "Hold up! Hold up!" another officer screamed just before Jones fired three shots.One of the bullets went through the dressing room wall and fatally struck Orellana Peralta as her mother, Soledad Peralta, held her. Peralta "felt her daughter’s body go limp and watched helplessly as her daughter died while still in her arms," the lawsuit states.
Police ordered Peralta to leave the dressing room and wait for "what seemed like an eternity," according to the lawsuit. She was not told that her daughter had died. Her family, who had left Chile to get away from violence and injustice in search of a better life in the U.S., remembered Orellana Peralta as a happy teen with many friends who loved sports, adored animals and excelled in school.
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