On a May afternoon in 2015, an altercation was sparked outside the Townhouse bar on bustling Windward Avenue near Venice Boardwalk, between two LAPD officers and a 29-year-old homeless man from upstate New York named Brendon Glenn.
Police had been called to the tourist-chocked block near the beach because Glenn and his dog were harassing people for money outside a restaurant, and continued to cause trouble outside the popular Townhouse bar when a bouncer called 911, bringing two LAPD cops to the scene. The cops told Glenn to leave the area, and he spun and walked toward the boardwalk, before returning to Windward and engaging in another altercation with a bouncer outside of Townhouse bar, which brought the officers back, this time to make an arrest.
During a struggle, Glenn, the father of a three-year-old son being raised in New York, was shot twice in the back by Officer Clifford Proctor, who claimed that Glenn was reaching for his partner’s gun. A surveillance video from. the Townhouse disputed Proctor’s allegation and the Los Angeles Police Commission later determined that the shooting was not justified…