Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore issued a formal apology late Monday night for a comment he made earlier in the day during a press conference covering the protests, looting and curfew in Los Angeles.
Moore ignited a firestorm on social media when he said of looters that the death of George Floyd was "on their hands, as much as it is on those [Minneapolis] officers'." The reaction to the comment was swift. "The audacity.
The ignorance. This man lost any credibility he ever had, which was a long shot to begin with," Ava DuVernay said on Twitter, where people used the hashtag #FireMoore to call for his ouster.
The top cop first tried to walk the comment back on Twitter in a single post around 7:30 p.m.: "Let me be clear — there are 4.
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