LAPD Chief Moore under fire over looting remarks, police treatment of protesters
LOS ANGELES - In more than a week of civil unrest since the killing of George Floyd, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore has been at the helm of a massive police response, which has included the controversial firing of foam bullets and arresting of peaceful protesters.
Some of those tactics and a remark he made in an empty room at City Hall on Monday, with reporters watching remotely because of COVID-19, have left him scrambling to preserve all he has worked for as a chief staking his legacy on repairing frayed relationships with black and Latino residents.
Minutes after saying that looters were as responsible for Floyd's death as were the Minneapolis police officers who held down his neck with a knee or watched it happen, Moore walked back the words.
But no matter how much he repeated and rephrased the apology, the damage was done.
The following day, he sat silently at a Police Commission meeting for nine hours as citizen after citizen - several hundred in all - demanded his resignation. While Mayor Eric Garcetti and other officials
