Attorney Adanté Pointer has announced that the family of Emanuel Perez Becerra has filed suit against the Sunnyvale Police Department over Becerra being fatally shot by police.
The Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit following an officer-involved shooting in 2024 that resulted in the death of a 19-year-old.
Pointer alleges that “They didn’t use any of their less lethal alternatives as it relates to weapons and instead resorted to deadly force after giving commands. This officer should be fired. Officers need to be retrained. Every day is an agonizing day. And for them, the pain of the actual incident happening last March hasn’t gone away, it hasn’t dissipated. And I think most parents would understand; it never will.”