Police Commission to investigate RPD shooting (tags)
After hearing comments from over 10 community members concerning a Hispanic man shot by police officers, the Community Police Review Commission decided to investigate independantly
Riverside Police Chief justifies shooting of Vanpaseuth Phaisouphanh (tags)
Accompanied by a police guard, Riverside Police Chief Russ Leach defended the shooting of a Laotian-American last weekend, but won few converts, as more than 50 people appeared at the Commission meeting, to ask one major question: Why did the police department resort to lethal force to kill a person of color, while allowing a white man in a similar situation to live?