One of San Diego’s former Assembly members authored a landmark reform law that was part of a significant police settlement made earlier this week.
The settlement, approved Tuesday by the City Council, is one of the largest in U.S. history for a police shooting.
The lawsuit alleged a police officer violated a 2019 use-of-force law written by then-San Diego Assemblymember Shirley Weber that raised California’s standard for police use of deadly force from “reasonable” to “necessary.”…