KTLA News: "Chief Gates reports Review Board's decision on fatal shooting of Eula Love" (1979)

it means that we're going to have to work a lot harder in terms of our training we're going to have to perhaps find new techniques uh to deal with these situations uh you must always remember though we have human beings that are involved in these our police officers are human beings they make judgments they make judgments under tremendous stress and the officers made judgments in this case uh which led to the death of ulo pursues and actively pursues ways to avoid this kind of [Music] whistle and has rendered his his judgment the matter as you know we completed our investigation over a month ago and in the period of time time since that investigation was completed and and today our people have been reviewing that investigation it has been submitted to our shooting review board for a judgment to be rendered there it then goes to an assistant chief the assistant chief reviews the decision of the shooting review board that decision ultimately comes to me the decision of the shooting review board was that the shooting was in policy uh there was one individual who indicated it was in policy but not up to standards but the majority vote was that it was in policy the assistant chief reviewed that he agreed with that decision uh and after an very extensive review by myself uh with the assistant chief I agree with that decision so the shooting will be classified as in policy uh with that uh I think we can perhaps open it up to your question Chief Mr VY Camp said there were some tactical and strategic questions raised about the way the incident was handled well certainly we have raised all of those questions and we will continue to raise those questions I think it's very important for this department to uh continue to find ways to avoid situations like this uh this is not something that we want to have happen again are connected conducted and how quarterbacks and other people conduct themselves and sure uh that's that's we all engage in that and certainly we've engaged in that here this is a you know this is not like a football game it's it's a life and death kind of situation it deserves every bit of our attention and it is getting every bit of our attention uh I've second guessed them over and over and over as has everyone who has been connected with this case uh but I I think in the final analysis you have to be fair uh you have to strip away the emotion as much as you Poss can you have to be as rational about it as possible otherwise you cannot come out with with a fair result and uh I think we have come out with a fair result but I don't believe it has it ends here I think we have to go forward and I think we have to find ways to seek Solutions I I think we have to it's not just the police department I think uh Society has to find solutions to some of these problems you can't we can't continually try to solve our problems with violence violence begets violence and and uh uh this kind of situation is going to erupt again if we don't find ways to to to to solve some of those problems and uh we you can put all the all the adjectives to it tragic all the other kinds of adjectives that go with this and have been put to it uh probably still will not describe uh how unfortunate that that it is is any disciplinary action going to be taken against the officers no the the action of the officer has been declared in policy so that would not call for any kind of dis action declared by the uh members of the board of police Commissioners well in this particular case what did it mean uh May defend themselves uh and that one officer can defend his his partner that part is pretty explicit in the policy Chief do you can take some disciplinary action I did not that's not my understanding I I know that the police commission want wants to as I want to review this to see that the department e people who are expert in the field and we have sat down with them to find Solutions tactical solutions to these kinds of problems uh we're going back looking at U at the supposedly non-lethal weapons again to see if there's any possibility that we could use those uh we have sent our people through training on shooting policy every single person this department has gone through uh we're changing some of our tactical programs we're we're we're going to try and exhaust every means to see that this kind of of problem does not occur in the future she you said one of the questions that perhaps