OC DA Todd Spitzer Clears More Cops in Police Shooting Press Conference

Orange County district attorney Todd Spitzer held a press conference this morning to present findings on the first two police shooting cases under his term. On the job all of eight weeks, he inherited them alongside two in-custody death investigations from former DA Tony Rackauckas. Last week, Spitzer cleared Santa Ana police without much fanfare in one of the custodial death cases involving an arrest-turned-homicide. This time, Spitzer gave an hour-long presentation on the two police shooting probes, including a Fullerton incident where officers shot and killed an erratic woman who stabbed a former therapist at her office last year.

Read more on my latest OC Weekly Navel Gazing Blog post:

https://ocweekly.com/oc-da-todd-spitzer-clears-more-cops-in-police-shooting-press-conference/