Man Fatally Shot by Deputies in Compton
November 4, 2022
A man authorities said was armed with a hatchet was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy today in Compton.
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Local news Los Angeles
Dent, SEIU 721 President, Passes at 68
June 3, 2021
Linda Dent, a clerk in the Los Angeles County Tax Collector’s Office, who rose from a steward to become the first woman and first Black president of SEIU 721, passed away on May 31 from pancreatic cancer. She was 68-years-old.
Police Force Cutting into Family Ties: 23-Year-Old Targeted by an Order Given by His Uncle
May 20, 2021
On Tuesday, May 10, Attorney Carl Douglas, and Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Co-founder Melina Abdullah joined 23-year-old filmmaker Jamal Shakir to announce a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and LAPD police officer, Eric Anderson. The premise of the case sounded like many others, law enforcement using overly aggressive force to manage a peaceful protest, but for Shakir, the order for his attack came directly from a family member.
HACLA Stands in Agreement with HUD’s Withdrawal of Proposed Rule on Mixed Status Families
April 9, 2021
Friday, April 2, 2021, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pubished a Federal Register notice that announced the Department’s withdrawal of HUD’s 2019 proposed rule on changes to the treatment of mixed status households receiving federal housing assistance.