In a memo, Chief Michel Moore said “extremist groups have hijacked the use of the ‘Thin Blue Line Flag’ to symbolize their undemocratic, racist, and bigoted views.”
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County supervisors agreed Tuesday to find more funding for the Office of Diversion and Reentry. -
The LAPD assigned as many as 95 officers to handle protests over the release of a secret audio recording of councilmembers making racist remarks.
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The sentence brings to a close the horrifying murder that attracted national attention.
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Rob Adams, a 23-year-old Black man, was running away from San Bernardino police while allegedly holding a firearm when he was shot and killed last July.
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Alhambra State Assemblyman Mike Fong wants to make it easier to take guns from people prohibited from possessing them, and to bar police from selling off seized weapons.
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Millions of vehicles manufactured by the companies between 2011 and 2022 can be easily hotwired and also lack engine immobilizers, a common anti-theft device.
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Recommendations include reconsidering pretext stops and reevaluating the whether its necessary to handcuff severely injured people.
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The continued pressure stems from an emergency filing by the ACLU that alleged “abhorrent” conditions at downtown L.A.'s Inmate Reception Center.
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Gascón has been much more aggressive than his predecessors in charging officers for shootings and in-custody deaths.
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The fatal shooting of Christopher Deandre Mitchell by two Torrance police officers already had been determined to be legally justified but DA George Gascón decided to reopen the case.
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The fatal shooting of Guardado near Compton came less than a month after the 2020 murder of George Floyd and sparked angry protests.
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The deputies are also under investigation in connection with the controversial shooting of Andres Guardado in 2020.
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