Activists urged the LA Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday to ensure the LAPD fully examined the death of Keith Porter, who was shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s eve in Northridge.
“We need the suspect named, we need the suspect arrested, we need this suspect charged, and we need him prosecuted, had that been anyone else, procedures would have been followed,” Porter’s cousin Jsane Tyler said of the unnamed ICE agent during the Commissioners’ meeting Tuesday, their first of 2026.
Porter, was confronted by the off-duty agent around 11 p.m., after the agent said Porter was firing a rifle, possibly into the air to mark the new year.
A statement from the Department of Homeland Security said Porter pointed the rifle at the off-duty agent during a confrontation, and the agent killed Porter.
Porter, 43, was the father of 2 children.
As of Tuesday pair of GoFundMe pages had raised more than $300,000 for his family, which is considering legal action against the federal government.
“He was a light in our family and he was a light for everyone that came encounter with him,” Tyler said.
DHS said it was investigating the shooting internally and the LAPD was conducting a separate investigation into his death, officials said last month.