LOS ANGELES — Civil rights advocates and family members of people killed by officers of the Vallejo Police Department made a passionate plea Thursday for a state oversight board to launch investigations into whether the officers should lose their badges.
"Murder is murder," one emotional mother, Angela Sullivan, told members of an advisory board for the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. She described how her son, Ronnell Foster, was killed in 2018 when he was shot seven times by a Vallejo police officer.
Her mother — Foster's grandmother — "died four and a half months later from a broken heart," she said.
Another parent, Eugene Moore, told commission members that his son Jeremiah Moore "should be alive today." Moore had autism, he said, and was shot and killed by police in 2012 while unarmed.
