Are Persons Who Cant be Hired, Fired or Controlled by the Community Public Servants? Unwanted White Torrance Cop who Murdered Christopher Mitchell is Back on Duty to Provide Public Mastery Over Blacks

A white Torrance police officer who at one time faced a criminal charge in the shooting death of a Black man inside a parked car has been reinstated within the department, months after the politically charged criminal case against him was dismissed.

Matthew Concannon — who was on paid administrative leave in connection to the Dec. 9, 2018, death of 23-year-old Christopher DeAndre Mitchell — returned this month to active duty within the Torrance Police Department, to serve as a sergeant in the department’s patrol bureau, according to department officials.

Matt Murphy, an attorney who represented Concannon in the earlier criminal proceedings, said the sergeant is “back at work because he is a model police officer and was exonerated of all wrongdoing. …

“This case had three and a half years of judicial process … and it was ultimately dismissed because our client (Concannon) is innocent,” Murphy said. “Both (former Los Angeles District Attorney) Jackie Lacy and (current Los Angeles District Attorney) Nathan Hochman should be commended for their commitment to justice for everyone, including police officers.”

“Now our client just wants to put this nightmare behind him and continue to serve his community,” Murphy added.

On December 9, 2018, two Torrance, California, police officers shot and killed 23-year-old Black man Christopher Deandre Mitchell while he was sitting in a car minding his own business. The cops claimed they saw his hands move toward what turned out to be an air rifle that was wedged between his legs.

Christopher Deandre Mitchell’s family have maintained that Mitchell did follow commands and was never a threat to the officers, who they say never gave him a chance to surrender. They claim he was asleep in the car when the cops approached him. Black Lives Matter Los Angeles organizer Sheila Bates said Monday that the officers unnecessarily escalated the situation despite Mitchell not threatening them in any way, and they opened fire within seconds of approaching him.

Officers fired three times at Mitchell. The shooting was captured on video by Concannon’s body-worn camera. Just 12 seconds passed from the time the officer activated his camera as he opened Mitchell’s car door to the time of the first shot.

In the video the white cops pretend to be threatened - as the Black man appears to be very calm and trying to comply with their confusing, excited commands. Mitchell speaks in a calm, non-threatening voice and appears to be apologizing to them for not understanding their disfluent commands or not complying fast enough. Police are not facing any imminent threat of deadly harm when they fatally shoot him - at least from a reasonable, non-racist point of view.