Daily Mail News UK
The city of Los Angeles may soon use civilians and not police to enforce traffic laws, according to a new report from the city’s transportation department.
Los Angeles hired an outside firm in the midst of the backlash to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin in 2020, which sparked nationwide protests against police.
It also comes on the heels of an announcement that the state of California will pay a $24million civil rights settlement to the family of a man who died in a 2020 traffic stop after screaming ‘I can’t breathe’ as multiple officers restrained him while trying to take a blood sample, lawyers said Tuesday.