The officer who was fired for shooting and killing a man during George Floyd protests in Vallejo in 2020 could be getting his job back after prevailing in arbitration.
California’s new attorney general said Thursday his office will review the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa who police say they initially thought was carrying a handgun in his waistband but actually had a hammer.Michael Rains, attorney for the Vallejo Police Officers' Association, said that "several credible sources" have told him that, 22, of San Francisco, outside of a Walgreens store on Redwood Street during the early morning hours of June 2, 2020.
Full: Oakland attorney John Burris announces civil rights lawsuit against the City of Vallejo following the shooting of Sean MonterrosaTonn was at first placed on administrative leave for the shooting death, but was fired in 2021 by then-Chief Shawny Williams, who determined that Monterrosa was on his knees with his hands raised when he was shot.
The law office of John Burris filed a civil rights suit against the city of Vallejo and its Police Department for Monterrosa's death, citing alleged tampering with evidence and acting negligently by not reprimanding or re-training Tonn previously despite a "shocking history of shooting his gun at civilians."Vallejo police on Wednesday released body-cam video and police dispatch audio in the June 2 fatal police shooting of Sean Monterrosa.
When asked if he was confident that Bonta would file charges against Tonn, Burris chuckled and said that he would wait and see.Tonn had previously shot three people over five years in Vallejo while on duty, none of which were found to have had firearms, a tenth of the 32 total shootings by the department in one decade, according to attorney Ben Nisenbaum.
Williams resigned abruptly last November. Williams was repeatedly criticized by the Vallejo Police Officers' Association, the offices' union, which had previously voted "no confidence" in him and blamed him for everything from attrition to high crime in the city. But advocates for the families of those killed by police said Williams had been making progress in cleaning up a department that had gained international attention for being violent.
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