Community Blowback Follows CoCo Sheriff's Support For Convicted Deputy

By Shawn Chitnis, CBS San Francisco:

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA — Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston sent an e-mail to his staff supporting former deputy Andrew Hall after he had been sentenced to six years in prison. Family members of the shooting victim and community activists say the sheriff’s words are shocking and offensive.

“Since this is a felony conviction, California law requires that he no longer serve as a peace officer. We are compelled to give him a reluctant farewell,” Sheriff Livingston said of Hall in the e-mail.

Hall was convicted of assault with a firearm in the shooting death of Laudemer Arboleda, who was fatally shot during a 2018 slow-speed police pursuit in Danville. Arboleda suffered from mental illness and was unarmed at the time of the shooting.

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