Mar. 2, 2026
Jury awards $3M in LAPD shooting of Air Force veteran
Jurors concluded deadly force was not necessary when officers shot Jermaine Petit, an Air Force veteran later diagnosed with PTSD and schizophrenia, as he walked away holding a car part mistaken for a gun.
A federal jury in Los Angeles unanimously awarded $3 million Thursday to the daughter of Jermaine Petit, a 39-year-old Air Force veteran who was shot and seriously wounded by Los Angeles Police Department officers, finding that the use of deadly force was not necessary to defend human life.
The verdict closes the long legal battle over the July 2022 shooting near Bronson Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. But the veteran was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder ...
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