Cop who killed 14-year-old girl in California Burlington store won’t face criminal charges

No criminal charges will be filed against the Los Angeles Police Department officer who fired a rifle inside a North Hollywood Burlington store in 2021, killing both a man armed with a bike lock and a 14-year-old girl who was cowering with her mother out of sight in a dressing room.

A California Department of Justice report released Wednesday, April 17 found no evidence that Officer William Dorsey Jones, Jr. “acted without the intent to defend himself and others from what he reasonably...