Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and the Police Department’s independent watchdog have determined that two officers were justified in fatally shooting Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man ...

The two Los Angeles police officers who fatally shot Ezell Ford filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the city, alleging they are being kept on desk duty because of racial discrimination and ...

Although the loss of Mr. Ford’s life is tragic, we believe the officers’ actions were legally justified and the evidence supports our decision.” LAPD officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas had ...

What is clear: After he was stopped, Ford was killed, shot by two members of the Los Angeles Police Department. Even as the LAPD released a detailed account of the incident Wednesday, the Los ...

That evidence included Ford's DNA on the gun. A previously released autopsy report appeared to support the officers' account. According to the LAPD, Ford was acting suspiciously when he caught ...

Raquel Maria Dillon/AP Photo — -- The Los Angeles Police Commission decided that one of the city's officers acted within policy and another did not in the fatal shooting of Ezell Ford ...

Officer Sharlton Wampler was hardly unfamiliar with the South LA neighborhood where he rolled up to Ezell Ford in his LAPD patrol car last August. The department won’t say how long he’d worked ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department and Ford Motor Co. unveiled two new Ford Fusion hybrid pursuit-rated patrol cars Monday that are intended for future use by police departments.

The Ford Police Responder Hybrid Sedan will join the LAPD fleet in the summer 2018. Designed to handle long pursuits at different speeds, the Responder can drive over curbs and negotiate flooded ...

The autopsy report on Ezell Ford, 25, has been on a security hold at the request of the Los Angeles Police Department while the investigation into the Aug. 11 shooting continues. The security hold ...

The Los Angeles Police Department is poised to become one of the first departments in the country to use the new Ford Fusion hybrid pursuit-rated police car. Chief Charlie Beck is scheduled at 10 ...