The father and a brother of an armed man who was fatally shot by Long Beach Police Department officers while at a park in the city’s Cambodia Town area in 2024 sued the city Thursday, contending the shooting was unnecessary and that the decedent’s sibling suffered emotional distress from witnessing what happened.
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Donald Washington, 46, was killed during an April 17, 2024, confrontation with officers at MacArthur Park. The responding officers gave Washington multiple orders to drop a handgun, and he was shot when he refused to comply, police said previously…