Legal Opinion
Fetters v. County of Los Angeles
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 8, 2016No. B252287, B253082PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
JOHNSON, J.
— On Sunday, May 10, 2009, when he was 15 years old, William Fetters (Fetters) was shot by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy. Just prior to his shooting, Fetters had been playing “cops and robbers” with friends while riding his bicycle and carrying a replica of a semiautomatic pistol. Two deputies, while responding to a trespassing call, spotted Fetters on his own with the imitation pistol riding down a sidewalk in the direction opposite to which they were traveling. The deputies made an immediate U-turn and approached Fetters in their patrol car from behind. The…
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