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    LAPD tactics under scrutiny after officer fatally shoots girl in Burlington dressing room

    by Kevin Rector, Brittny Mejia and Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times Dec 24, 2021 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — Not long after Los Angeles police killed a teenage girl while firing at a suspect in a North Hollywood clothing store Thursday, Albert Corado started getting texts from friends and jumped on the phone with his father to process the familiar emotions together.

    The similarities to the fatal LAPD shooting of his 27-year-old sister, Melyda “Mely” Corado, as she worked a shift at a Trader Joe’s in Silver Lake in July 2018, were clear, he said — and infuriating.

    “To think, over three years after what happened to Mely happened, that there’s been no change whatsoever in the way the police deal with these situations, just shows the police have no desire to change,” Corado said. “They use deadly force pretty much whenever they feel like it.”

    Much about the fatal LAPD shooting of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta — who was at the Burlington store with her mother trying on dresses for

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