US cop sentenced to 6 years in connection with death of Filipino-American

A former California police officer has been sentenced to six years in prison in connection with the death of Filipino-American Laudemer Arboleda.

In a 24 Oras Weekend report on Sunday, a video released by the Danville, California Police District shows then-police officer Andrew Hall shooting at the car Arboleda was driving in November 2018.

According to a report by ABC News, a Danville resident had called 911 to report that Arboleda was knocking on doors and lingering outside homes in a cul-de-sac. When officers arrived, Arboleda got into his car and drove away in a slow-speed chase that lasted a few minutes.

A video shows Hall firing several shots at Arboleda's car, which was going 10 kph .

The Court junked Hall’s defense that he fired at Arboleda because he was about to be hit by the car.

According to the Court, Hall used an “excessive, unreasonable, and unnecessary force,” indicating that Arboleda did not deserve to die.

"While he may have violated the law it was no law that carried a sentence of death for him," ABC News quoted the judge as saying.

The jurors were deadlocked on the manslaughter charge against Hall, but convicted him of assault with a firearm and inflicting great bodily injury.

US sites reported Arboleda as having been mentally ill. Months earlier he had been committed to a psychiatric hospital and, according to his family, "prescribed medication for psychosis and schizophrenia."

In the nearly three years since his shooting Arboleda in November 2018 and the filing of charges against him in April 2021, Hall shot dead another man, Tyrell Wilson, who was also described as mentally ill. — Giselle Ombay/BM, GMA News