From [HERE] and [MORE]  Vallejo Mayor Osby Davis said Wednesday that he will seek an independent investigation into the recent controversial officer-involved shooting death of Mario Romero Johnson. Davis said he will ask the City Council to request that Attorney Gen. Kamala Harris' office look into concerns raised since police officers killed Romero, 23, while he sat with his brother-in-law, Joseph Johnson, 21 in his car outside his North Vallejo home early Sept. 2.

They were not doing anything unlawful. Police had no valid legal basis to approach them - offering only that they approached due to recent gang-related activity in the neighborhood. They said officers fired repeatedly at Romero because they believed he had reached for a gun in his waistband.

According to police the weapon turned out to be a pellet gun. Family members, however, have vehemently denied that he had such a weapon, or police assertions that he had 50 ecstasy tablets in his car. Joseph Johnson was shot through his hip and hospitalized.

"I saw everything," said Romero's sister, Cynquita Martin, whose house Romero shared with her. "My brother never got out of the car. My brother was slumped over in that boy's lap," Martin said. "He caught bullets for that child (Johnson). He saved somebody's life while they was killing him." [MORE]