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 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - Prosecutors listened to the videotape over and over, enhanced it and played it again. Each time, they said, they heard a sheriff's deputy order an unarmed man to get up from the ground, then shoot him when he did.
"In his mind, he was doing what he needed to do. In our legal analysis, that was unreasonable," District Attorney Michael A. Ramos said Tuesday in announcing attempted voluntary manslaughter charges against Deputy Ivory J. Webb.
Webb, 45, is the first law enforcement official in San Bernardino County to be charged in an on-duty shooting, Ramos said. Webb was expected to surrender at an arraignment Wednesday. If convicted, he could face up to 18 1/2 years in prison.
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