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    Costco shooting: Man pushed LAPD officer, but deadly force was excessive, attorney says

    by Hannah Fry, Mark Puente and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Jun 19, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - A man fatally shot by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer at a Costco in Corona pushed the officer - but that does not justify the use of deadly force, an attorney representing his family said Tuesday.

    Civil rights attorney Dale K. Galipo said it was unclear why Kenneth French pushed the officer, who was holding his 18-month-old son in a food sample line when the altercation occurred Friday.

    Before the officer fired, there was a gap in time when the officer declared he was a police officer and French's father stepped between them. Galipo said the security video

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