Frank Stoltze
I came to L.A. as a very young reporter on New Year’s Day, 1991. Two months later, four LAPD officers were caught on videotape beating Rodney King. A year later, the night before the riots/rebellion broke out, I was in the Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts at an extraordinary rally of rival gangs that had brokered a truce.
Today, I cover Civics and Democracy in L.A. As we face perhaps the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War, I seek to engage with communities and examine the hurdles to becoming involved in the political process. I cover the various social and political movements seeking to improve the lives of Angelenos. I also cover anti-democratic forces.
And after all these years, I still need to figure out the best donut shop in L.A. The best torta. The best (not fanciest) coffee. Best of all I get to meet the smartest, most interesting people and bring their voices to you.
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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. -
Democrat Carrillo, who was exonerated in 2011, will run against Republican Rep. Mike Garcia in Northern L.A. County.
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The mayor wants to scale up her Inside Safe program to $250 million, and hire hundreds more police officers.
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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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The detectives face assault charges for shooting an unarmed man as a he tried to flee from a traffic stop.
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The June runoff will determine the next councilmember to represent District 6 in the San Fernando Valley.
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Ridley-Thomas was removed from the council after his conviction on federal corruption charges.
