Lawyers for the family of a California man shot dead by an off-duty US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE agent outside his flat on New Years Eve urged the states attorney general on Tuesday to open an independent investigation of the killing.
Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump told reporters relatives of Keith Porter Jnr, the 43-year-old father of two who was shot dead on January 31, lacked faith in the Los Angeles police department LAPD to conduct a fair and transparent investigation of the shooting.
Details of Porters killing have remained sketchy. According to the US department of homeland security DHS, which oversees ICE, Porter was a suspected active shooter killed in an exchange of gunfire with the off-duty immigration agent who confronted him.
