A Trader Joe's shootout, an innocent death, and soul searching for LAPD

Quotes Reader August 02, 2018

A makeshift memorial outside the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s, where a young woman was killed in the crossfire between a gunman and police. To shoot an innocent bystander in pursuit of a violent criminal is every police officer’s nightmare. In Los Angeles, with its vexed history of police brutality, racial tension, and high-speed car chases that local television networks feast on, it elicits a special sort of horror, a throwback to an ugly not-so-distant past that the city would much rather forget.