Say Her Name, Wakiesha Wilson
September 28, 2016
Attorney Carl Douglas, along with the mother and aunt of Wakiesha Wilson, hold press conference for $35 million lawsuit against LAPD
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Los Angeles Police Department
Mayor Shows Support for Chief Beck Amidst Calls for His Removal
July 21, 2016
Mayor Eric Garcetti said last Friday, that he continues to support Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck, despite calls for the chief’s ouster by activists upset over a decision upholding the actions of an officer who fatally shot a black woman in the Crenshaw district.
Beck Denies Practicing Discrimination against Black Police Captain
April 21, 2016
Chief Charlie Beck denied this week that a Los Angeles police captain was treated unfairly because it took five years to promote him within his rank.
2 Los Angeles officers charged with raping women on duty
February 25, 2016
While one Los Angeles police officer acted as a lookout in the front seat of a departmental car, a 19-year-old woman working as a drug informant was forced to perform oral sex on his partner in the back seat after being told, “You have to do what the police tell you to do,” the teenager said in a federal court filing. Another woman, also working as a drug informant, said the same two officers each forced her to have sex with them twice after threatening her with jail time. Two other women told eerily similar stories. On Wednesday February 17,
Rally Decries Police Brutality
October 29, 2015
About three dozen people gathered outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters on October 23 for a rally to protest what activists decry as police brutality. The event, along with similar gatherings in New York City and about 30 other cities, are part of the 20th “National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation.” The rally outside the Police Administration Building at 100 W. First St., began with a small group of protesters that grew to around 40 people by 3 p.m. The group began marching at 3:30 p.m., bound for Skid Row at
Compton Man Arrested for Attempted Pimping
July 15, 2015
A 28-year-old Compton man has been charged with human trafficking, pandering and the attempted pimping of an undercover officer posing as a 17-year-old girl, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced recently.
