Three More and He's an Ace

The city of Inglewood (CA) has an officer who's racking up a rather troublesome record:

An Inglewood police officer who shot and killed an armed man early Monday while responding to a domestic disturbance call is one of two patrolmen under investigation for another fatal shooting in May, authorities said.

Officer Brian Ragan, a 5 1/2 -year veteran of the department, was immediately placed on paid administrative leave after the shooting of Kevin Wicks, 38, said Capt. Eve Irvine, commanding officer of the department's detective bureau.

Ragan was one of four officers who responded to a family disturbance call at Wicks' apartment in the 100 block of North Hillcrest Blvd. about 12:30 a.m., authorities said. The officers knocked on the door and it was opened by a man holding a gun, police said.

"At one point while the door was ajar, the officers observed that Wicks was holding a handgun," police said in a prepared statement. "Wicks then suddenly raised the handgun at the officers, which resulted in one officer firing his service weapon in self-defense."

Wicks, who had been alone in the apartment, was taken to a hospital, where he died, police said. At the scene, officers recovered a handgun registered to Wicks, Irvine said.

Kevin Hackie, a private investigator hired by Wicks' family, said later that officers had gone to the wrong apartment and that they did not identify themselves. But police said that was not the case.

I gotta tell you, if I lived in Inglewood I'd answer my door carrying a gun, too.

Regardless of whether the officer has a problem with gun control or not, every time something happens in South-Central Los Angeles (and communities therein), there is a predictable cast of characters that shows up demanding a Federal investigation, and they were all on the news last night. They need to get some new blood in the grumpy aggrieved civil rights community - these people are getting boring and incredibly predictable.