A leader of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles who was targeted in a swatting incident last year was the victim of another apparent false emergency call today.
The Los Angeles Police Department — which has a $1.76 billion budget this fiscal year — had initially submitted a proposal seeking an additional $66.7 million to incorporate 106 recommendations from three reports that found the department mishandled aspects of its response to last year’s protests against racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis.
On Tuesday, September 21, the Fire Prevention Bureau Legal Unit / Illegal Cannabis Section served a warrant with LAPD 77th Division Narcotics Enforcement Detail at 5710 S. Western Avenue. Discovered during the warrant service on an illegal cannabis business were six residential units of illegal housing.
The Los Angeles City Council today passed a motion introduced by Councilman Curren Price to identify $5 million in funding — some of which would come from the Los Angeles Police Department budget — to help a South Los Angeles neighborhood recover from a massive explosion set off by an LAPD bomb squad error that injured 17 people and forced many residents from their homes.
Police today announced the arrest of a juvenile suspect and an unknown number of “co-conspirators” wanted in connection with a shooting outside Santee High School just south of downtown Los Angeles that left one student injured.
Los Angeles police Chief Michel Moore today confirmed changes in department policy following a federal report that found LAPD bomb squad technicians vastly underestimated the amount of explosive material placed into a containment truck, causing a destructive fireworks explosion in a South Los Angeles neighborhood.
Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said today that the department will wait for instructions from city officials on how to interpret exemption requests for the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, following a report that thousands of employees plan to pursue religious or medical
exemptions to the rule.“We have seen a number of our personnel who have filed for an intent to have an exemption, based on either medical or sincerely held religious belief,” Moore told the Los Angeles Police Commission. He added that “the department will wait for the city to provide instructions relative to the
interpretation and what will happen to those intentions to file.”
A man who stabbed two people in the Mid-City area
of Los Angeles over the weekend remained at large today.
The crimes occurred on Saturday morning in the general area of
Washington Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police
Department.
An unnamed Los Angeles Police Department officer was under suspension today after video appeared to capture him punching a carjacking suspect who was handcuffed to a gurney after crashing the vehicle into a wall.
like a twin to him, and his mother, they’re all in Colorado. This was an innocent kid; like, probably a straight-A kid while he was in school. So, now, we don’t know what his whole potential could have been.”
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced that a man was charged today with the fatal beating of his former girlfriend, Michelle Annette Avan.
A pedestrian was killed today in a hit and run in the Leimert Park area, authorities said.
The Rev. Dr. D. Najuma Smith-Pollard, pastor of Word of Encouragement Community Church and program manager of USC Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, asked Moore for the procedure for civilians to serve on boards, commissions and panels that are connected to LAPD.
Police said today that 40 people were arrested in Koreatown during another round of violent, dueling demonstrations regarding transgender rights.
When #TrayvonMartin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted on July 13, 2013, the world erupted and our co-founder Alicia Garza penned a love letter to Black people, closing with the words “Black Lives Matter.” The words, amplified by Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, became a rallying cry for those with the vision and will to end state-sanctioned violence against Black people and build a world of freedom and justice.