2 LA officers won’t be charged in 2015 fatal shooting

Prosecutors have declined to charge two Los Angeles police officers who fatally shot an unarmed man after he threw a beer bottle through a window of their patrol car.

The Los Angeles Times reports Monday that prosecutors determined the officers’ actions were justified because they reasonably believed James Byrd was armed with a gun and had shot at them in 2015.

Police did not find a gun on Byrd. The officers said they thought the sound of the car window shattering was a gunshot. Investigators determined Byrd had thrown a 40-ounce beer bottle.

In 2016, the Police Commission, a civilian oversight panel, determined the officers violated department rules for using deadly force.

— The Associated Press