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Man whose fireworks led to botched LAPD detonation sentenced

A South Los Angeles man whose cache of illegal fireworks blew up a neighborhood in a bungled police bomb squad detonation, injuring 17 people and displacing dozens, has been sentenced to federal prison

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LAPD launches probe after politicians heard in racist recording complain about leak

Nury Martinez resigned seat after calling colleague’s Black son a ‘monkey’ in recording

The Independent UK

Bass and Caruso differ on public safety and policing. But not as much as many think

LOS ANGELES — On a campaign stop last spring in the San Fernando Valley, billionaire developer and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso was flanked by a who's who of old-school heavyweights from the Los Angeles Police Department.

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LAPD launches criminal probe into leak of City Council members' racist recordings at request of Martinez, de León, Cedillo

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police Chief Michel Moore announced Tuesday that his department had launched an investigation into the source of the leaked racist recordings that thrust L.A. City Hall into a harsh national spotlight.

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Mike Bonin remains in middle of LA City Council race, though he dropped out 9 months ago

LOS ANGELES — It's been nine months since Mike Bonin, a progressive stalwart representing the Westside of Los Angeles, beat back a recall attempt and then, just one week later, declared he would not seek a third term on the City Council.

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Family of man fatally shot by LAPD files wrongful death lawsuit against LA and police officers

The family of 22-year-old Margarito Lopez Jr. filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the city of Los Angeles and the two Los Angeles Police Department officers who fatally shot the man after his sister called 911 because she was afraid her brother might hurt himself.

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Union calls leak of racist recordings illegal, but LAPD has not been asked to find culprit

LOS ANGELES — Even though Los Angeles labor officials have called the leak of racist recordings involving three L.A. City councilmembers a serious crime, the Los Angeles Police Department is not investigating who recorded and posted the clips because no one has filed a police report.

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Student suffers possible drug overdose Friday at Bernstein High School

LOS ANGELES — A 17-year-old student was hospitalized for a possible drug overdose at Helen Bernstein High School on Friday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Nicholas Goldberg: Why I’m voting against Rick Caruso. (Hint: It’s not because of his positions on the issues.)

LOS ANGELES — Karen Bass wants to hire 500 new LAPD officers while Rick Caruso wants 1,800 more. Bass plans to house 17,000 homeless people in her first year as mayor; he promises 30,000. He excoriates her for accepting free tuition from USC, while she says he broke a promise…

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An LAPD officer who was killed in a training exercise was targeted, a lawyer alleges

"They used that training as a cover to kill him in retaliation for his whistleblowing activity," attorney Bradley Gage told NPR. Officer Houston, who died in May, was investigating an alleged rape.

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Police chief helped compile ‘independent’ review into death of officer probing LAPD rape allegations: lawyer

The attending physician who determined Mr Tipping’s cause of death is a reserve LAPD officer

The Independent UK

5 years ago, Denis Villeneuve made the best cyberpunk sequel ever

It's hard to follow up on one of the most beloved sci-fi films of all time. It's even harder to arguably do a better job than the original.

Inverse

Internal LAPD report rules that officer’s training death was an accident

LOS ANGELES — The death of Los Angeles police officer Houston Tipping during a training exercise last spring was an unforeseeable accident, an internal Los Angeles Police Department inquiry has concluded.

Los Angeles Times

LAPD officer killed during training ‘accident’ was investigating officers who took part in gang rape

One of the officers that was allegedly involved in the rape was present during the training exercise where Mr Tipping died

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LAPD officer killed during training ‘accident’ was investigating officers who took part in gang rape

One of the officers that was allegedly involved in the rape was present during the training exercise where Mr Tipping died

Los Angeles Times

$4 million verdict for LAPD captain over fake nude photo shared by cops

LOS ANGELES — A jury awarded a female Los Angeles police captain $4 million in damages Friday in her sexual harassment lawsuit against the city over a nude photograph that was doctored to look like her and shared around the department.

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Teen, woman in custody in PnB Rock’s fatal shooting at Roscoe’s; father is sought

LOS ANGELES — A teenage boy and a woman are in custody in the slaying of rapper PnB Rock, who was gunned down two weeks ago at Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles in South L.A., Los Angles police confirmed to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. Authorities are searching…

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Survey: Most Angelenos have favorable view of LAPD, despite lingering concerns around bias

LOS ANGELES — The public's confidence in the Los Angeles Police Department has improved slightly over the last two years, although more than half of the city's residents believe policing remains tainted by racial bias among officers, according to a survey from Loyola Marymount University.

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Teen, woman in custody in PnB Rock’s fatal shooting at Roscoe’s; 3rd suspect sought

LOS ANGELES — A teenager and a woman are in custody in the slaying of rapper PnB Rock, who was gunned down two weeks ago at Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles in South L.A., Los Angles police confirmed to the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. Authorities are searching for…

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Erika D. Smith: Isn't Karen Bass the victim? Why all the questions about her stolen guns?

Ever since Karen Bass announced that she was running for mayor of Los Angeles, she has mostly downplayed the historic implications of her candidacy.

Daily Mirror

Teenager shot dead by police after his 'toy' gun is mistaken for loaded rifle

Luis Herrera, 19, called the cops on September 17 to get them to come to his home after claiming he was being hit by his drunk dad who was allegedly beating his mum too

The Independent UK

Bodycam footage shows Los Angeles police fatally shooting teen holding a toy airsoft gun outside his home

Luis Herrera, 19, was shot and killed by police responding to his 911 call about domestic abuse at his home

Los Angeles Times

Did an LA cop’s racist remark need to be disclosed? For a prisoner, the answer took years

LOS ANGELES — Richard Lathan wasn’t sure how to react when he got a letter in July informing him that the Los Angeles police detective who helped put him in prison for murder had made a racist remark about Black people.

Los Angeles Times

'This is not the end': LA advocates say veto doesn't shut door to safe injection sites

LOS ANGELES — In the sweltering heat, activist Soma Snakeoil gripped the microphone and led the crowd outside Los Angeles City Hall in a chant.

Los Angeles Times

2 arrested in burglary at Rep. Karen Bass' LA home, LAPD says

LOS ANGELES — Two people are in custody in connection with the burglary of Rep. Karen Bass' home in the Baldwin Vista neighborhood, an LAPD spokesperson said Wednesday.

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