LOS ANGELES — “I’d like to see them fired, I’d like to see District Attorney Jackie Lacey file some criminal charges,” Tritobia Ford told KJLH radio’s “Black Los Angeles” Aug. 11, referring to L.A. cops Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas, who shot and killed her son Ezell one year earlier. “If Ezell or I or you were to go and shoot somebody, self-defense or whatever, they would file charges and they would let the courts handle it.”

Ford, along with Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and Long Beach and Service Employees International Union Local 99, organized protests to mark the occasion. Ezell Ford, a 25-year-old African-American who suffered from mental difficulties, was accosted by Wampler as he walked near his South Los Angeles home. The incident escalated and cops claim Ford went after Wampler.

After a 10-month review, the Police Commission ruled Wampler had no reason to stop Ford and his handling of the encounter was so flawed that he was responsible for the fatal confrontation. Nonetheless, they ruled that Ford’s aggressive behavior made the shooting “within policy,” reported the Los Angeles Times.

“This is not just a matter of two killer cops but a matter of the entire system,” Melina Abdullah, a leader of Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles, told an evening rally of 100 people in front of police headquarters.