Commissioners walk out of meeting over police shooting of L.A. man

Los Angeles police commissioners meeting to decide whether two officers were justified in shooting an unarmed black man last year briefly walked out of the session on Tuesday after activists began chanting and holding signs. All five members of the Los Angeles Police Commission, who had said that they would halt the proceedings if activists became unruly, left the meeting for about 10 minutes during a tense public comment section. A line of more than a dozen police officers then stood at the front of the room, asking the crowd to calm down, before commissioners returned.

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