CA Police "Use of Force" Bill Clears 1st Hurdle:  A California bill that would redefine when a police officer can use lethal force has passed out of the Assembly Public Safety Committee.  Kati Grimes of the California Globe reports that AB 392 Weber (D-San Diego) would allow criminal charges to be filed against a police officer who uses deadly force when other options are available. It specifies that deadly force is allowed when it "is necessary to defend against an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury."  Attorney Kathleen Mastagni Storm told lawmakers that the bill moves the standard from objective reasonable deadly force to subjective, jeopardizing public safety.  The bill's author Shirley Weber disagrees, saying that the bill is not about targeting police, "but about how we have treated people for 400-years--people who don't look like us."  Recently, Governor Gavin Newsom and the Speaker of the state Assembly announced their support for the bill.  The Sacramento Bee has a slightly different take on the same bill.