A new controversy brewing over deadly police shooting half a decade ago.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office is now asking the California Attorney General’s Office to take over a criminal case against a former San Francisco police officer.
In an eight-page letter that NBC Bay Area obtained Friday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins spells out to California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Jenkins said that she would like Bonta to take over the manslaughter case against former rookie police officer Christopher Samayoa, who shot and killed Keita O’Neil in 2017. Samayoa was the first of three officers to be criminally charged by former DA Chesa Boudin.
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