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California’s top prosecutor won’t seek charges in 2020 fatal police shooting of Bay Area man

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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against a Vallejo police officer who fatally shot a man outside a San Francisco Bay Area pharmacy. A Vallejo police officer fatally shot 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa on Jun 2, 2020, after responding to reports of suspects stealing from a pharmacy as peaceful protests and civil unrest swept across the country following Floyd’s killing a week earlier in Minneapolis. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday his office found there was not enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer who was a did not act in self-defense or in defense of his partner officers.

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