Family, Survivor Call for Federal Probe of Police Shooting

The family of an unarmed man fatally shot by police in suburban Los Angeles called for a federal civil rights investigation into the police department involved Wednesday, saying newly released video of the shooting raises significant questions.
Attorneys for the family of Ricardo Diaz-Zeferino and a second man wounded in the 2013 shooting filed a letter in federal court asking the Justice Department to investigate the Gardena Police Department.
The attorneys wrote that Gardena police routinely violate their own policies and California state law by failing to internally investigate fatal officer-involved shootings, including that of 34-year-old, Diaz-Zeferino,. They cite 10 other fatal shootings involving Gardena officers since 2009.