The Kern County Sheriff’s Office will conduct an internal use-of-force investigation after a suspect was killed when an armored vehicle intentionally ran him over during a standoff in Porterville on Thursday. The incident followed the fatal shooting of Tulare County Sheriff’s Deputy-Detective Randy Hoppert, 35, as deputies attempted to serve an eviction notice. Driving the news: According to officials, roughly half of Kern County’s SWAT team res…
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