{"id":352104,"date":"2026-06-08T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352104\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:15:07","slug":"ex-lapd-officers-murder-case-dismissed-in-brendon-glenn-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/352104\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-LAPD Officer\u2019s Murder Case Dismissed in Brendon Glenn Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former LAPD officer Clifford Proctor was accused of shooting and killing Brendon Glenn. He was arrested for murder last year, nearly a decade later<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A judge dismissed the indictment against a former Los Angeles Police Department officer who was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man in Venice in 2015, according to the LA County District Attorney\u2019s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officer, Clifford Proctor, was accused of shooting and killing Brendon Glenn, a homeless man, following a dispute between Glenn and a bouncer near the Venice Beach boardwalk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proctor was initially investigated by then-LA County District Attorney Jackie Lacey in 2018. Her office did not pursue charges against Proctor, citing \u201cinsufficient evidence,\u201d despite then-LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck recommending that Lacey file charges against Proctor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proctor claimed Glenn was reaching for his partner\u2019s gun. But an LAPD investigation concluded Proctor shot Glenn twice in the back. The Los Angeles Police Commission ruled the shooting was unjustified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2024, former District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n decided to charge Proctor. But Proctor fled the country and is believed to have lived in Trinidad. He was later arrested at the Los Angeles International Airport in October 2025 for murder.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LADAOffice\/status\/2063004313262096457\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In granting a defense motion to dismiss the case, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen found that former Special Prosecutor Lawrence Middleton had failed to properly present \u201cexculpatory evidence\u201d to the grand jury in the case of Clifford Proctor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s good enough to dismiss this matter,\u201d the judge said. He said he also concluded after multiple viewings of video footage that it couldn\u2019t be shown that Proctor had \u201cmalice of any sort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xs-font-size wp-elements-a392843e06eac12cec56e735f4f8219f has-lg-margin-top wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase\">Scroll to continue reading<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The LA County District Attorney\u2019s Office said it will appeal the court\u2019s ruling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are surprised and disappointed by the judge\u2019s decision, whose erroneous ruling has thwarted our efforts to obtain justice for Brendon Glenn, the victim of Officer Proctor\u2019s shooting,\u201d District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement. \u201cWe will be appealing the Court\u2019s ruling as we strongly believe there was more than sufficient evidence presented to the grand jury to show that Mr. Proctor was guilty of second-degree murder for maliciously killing an unarmed man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside of the downtown Los Angeles courtroom following the dismissal, Proctor\u2019s attorney Tom Yu said, \u201cI\u2019m grateful that the court did the right thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city of Los Angeles paid $4 million to settle wrongful death lawsuits filed by Glenn\u2019s relatives in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former LAPD officer Clifford Proctor was accused of shooting and killing Brendon Glenn. 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