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Ivan Solis Mora

Gender : Male

Age : 33

Race : Latino/a/e

Date : 09/21/2023

Location : Gravilia St

City : Inglewood

County : Los Angeles

State : California

Agency : Inglewood PD

Officer(s) :Unknown

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during mental health crisis

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

Inglewood PD allege that 33-year-old Ivan Mora had a knife tied to a stick who “lunged” at police. He was shot and killed during a mental health crisis call.

Family vehemently denies the weapons allegations and relates that Ivan Mora had schizophrenia, needed competent mental health help and that the situation was handled incompetently with respect to the needs of a mental health crisis. Bystanders recount that he was tasered, had beanbags shot at them before he was shot and killed.

“Instead of calling for the appropriate resources, instead of calling for the mental health team, they rushed in guns blazing and they escalated a situation which require more compassion, more empathy and a way to deal with individuals who have such conditions,” the family's lawyer Christian Contreras told media.

A crowd of demonstrators, led by Cliff Smith with the Coalition for Community Control Over Police, was demanding greater transparency in the police department, as well as asking for the names of the officers involved in the fatal shooting.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/police-kill-man-they-say-was-armed-with-knife-in-inglewood/3229676/
https://news.yahoo.com/demonstrators-call-justice-deadly-police-052727738.html
https://www.facebook.com/CoalitionForCommunityControlOverPolice/