Laurel Canyon & Ventura Blvd., Studio City
Oh really?
If you've arrived here from a Google search of "Studio City Shooting" after seeing a rather diverse group of family and friends holding vigil on the streets of Studio City in honor of 18-year-old recent Granada Hills Charter High School graduate Zachary Champommier, you've come to the right place.
There are some handy links on the left which you can click to read more about Zac's story. We hope you'll come back and visit; we'd like you to get to know Zac and so we'll post some more about him soon. Until then, please bookmark this site and visit often for the latest news and action updates. Thank you for visiting -- Zac would be happy you did.
7 comments:
How is it not a breach in the duty of care to the public/civilian passersby when law enforcement fail to cordon off the area being used for an active operation, IN A PUBLIC PARKING LOT!?!?
How is it not poor conduct to pull a gun on a person without identifying yourself as law enforcement, not only to the person you have a gun to, but to the unknowing and witnessing public?
Is it not discrimination to rally and scream when a man is shot because he had a knife but was declared a minority and report it on the news BUT to ignore another murder ...because a man was from a good neighborhood? Is it not true that these incidences of death could have both been avoided had officers questioned before they shot? Is it possible that the news media are obsessed with "injustice" but ignore the injustices that affect certain neighborhoods? When will justice be clear?
I want to see Sheriff Baca re-enact the scene and try to use a similar car to create an imminent threat to a person standing facing the driver's side door. There is no way for the officers to wiggle out of this one. That's why it's taking so long. How could they not have had time to identify themselves as officers if Zac's car was stopped or barely rolling?
Zac was a student in my AP Art History class during his junior year. This is a very challenging class. 30,000 years of art in every conceivable culture all covered at breakneck speed. It was and still is hard for me to keep everything straight. Imagine being a high school student who has to fit all this info into his brain and keep track of all his other courses and play two instruments and participate in high school band. I am angry and saddened by this event. Every time I see Zac’s picture, my first thought is “What a genuinely nice guy.” Always willing to try again and again to understand what was going on in class. Always willing to ask questions, help others, and let others help him. Often able to latch onto that one acute observation that makes a teacher think “I love teaching this class.” I think of his friends and his good nature. I was the person who stated that I would never believe Zac would deliberately try to hurt another person. I believed that then and I believe it now. Looking back on that class, the one thing that comes to mind is this was a young man who treated everyone with respect and compassion. Like every teacher, I wanted news about him to be exciting [colleg, career, family] not this. I have great respect for law enforcement and the wonderful job they do on our campus and others. I hope that the Sheriff's Office deals with this throughly and ethically for the benefit of all citizens they protect and serve.
I think we all know how this movie will end, the same way it began: Law enforcement officers present that evening will observe a "the code" and will go to untold lengths to blame the forever silenced victim.
Those officers have already had the chance to come clean and failed. They will have another chance, it's called the rest of their lives. They will find solace in Sheriff Baca's bossom, the headmaster of the culture that built the secretive organization we call the LA County Sheriff's Department.
Someone posted that all Baca has done is to turn the LASD into the biggest firing squad in the world by not naming the shooter. Now, all sheriffs are suspects. That has got to be a big morale booster for the nonshooting deputies and for building trust among the public.
Just think, if the cops didn't do anything wrong and they know it, why not just say so?
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