


Black Lives Matter Los Angeles is demanding the removal of Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore.
Protesters affiliated with the group raised their hands and chanted during a Tuesday meeting of the Los Angeles Police Department Board of Police Commissioners, leading to the meeting's adjournment, according to a report.
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Moore has displayed a lack of leadership and failed to serve black Angelenos, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles argues.
"We are here because our community continues to be abused," Stephen "Cue" Jn-Marie of the Row Church said. "We have family, after family, after family — we’ve been coming to this commission since 2015, and some of us even before that."
Melina Abdullah, a professor at California State University Los Angeles and Black Lives Matter organizer, echoed Church.
“We’re here today to call on Michel Moore’s removal," Abdullah said, arguing that the LAPD's actions have led to everything from "stealing debit cards to stealing lives," the report noted.
"We're here today because the stolen lives have to stop. The killing of black people and killing of Angelenos at the hands of police has to stop," she added. "We're now saying we can’t let another day go by, another life be stolen, without rising up as a city and saying Moore must go. No more Moore."
While neither the LAPD nor the office of Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement on Tuesday's protest, the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, a union backing LAPD officers, labeled the action as "yet another half-backed stunt disguised as a serious solution."
"With all the published financial and nepotism accusations swirling around the BLM leadership, we suggest they get their own house in order and focus on actually accomplishing something, anything, that will make L.A. safer," a statement from the union read.
Moore was in attendance at the meeting Tuesday, and, rather than address the protesters, he delivered an update on police shooting numbers.
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"Year to date, we've now had 25 officer-involved shootings. The number last year was 27," he said.
"Our fatal officer-involved shootings are at 13 this year. Last year, that number was 13 as well, and our four-year average is just over nine."