The officer accelerated his vehicle to “3 to 5 miles per hour” to strike a man who allegedly was coming at another officer with a blade in his hand.
Internal investigators are reviewing an encounter last week in North Hollywood between Los Angeles Police Department officers and a man holding a knife who apparently was under the influence of a drug, in which one of the officers hit the man with his cruiser to get him to surrender.
Mitrani was able to stand up immediately after the officer hit him with the vehicle, with the other officer on foot then taking Mitrani back to the ground and arresting him. The chief did not say in the meeting whether LAPD rules permit officers to hit belligerent people with their vehicles. But nothingspecifically bans the use of a cruiser to subdue someone.
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