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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The Torrance police chief says the all the officers had been exchanging racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic messages. -
I asked a man with a bloody bandage on his head for an interview. He declined. When I tried to ask if he would speak anonymously, the men with him assaulted me.
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Drones became part of SWAT’s arsenal in 2019, but the department has used them very sparingly.
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The deputies — shot and wounded in their parked car last year — are suing the manufacturer of the "ghost gun" used by the man charged with attacking them.
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In a highly unusual move, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday that his office has filed voluntary manslaughter charges against Salvador Sanchez for the off-duty killing of a man who had intellectual disabilities inside a Corona Costco in June 2019.
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Facing an Oct. 27 deadline, the recall campaign has collected less than one-third of the nearly 580,000 signatures it needs — and by its own estimation it will need 800,000 signatures, since a certain portion are typically rejected.
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The families of Kisha Michael and Marquintan Sandlin still hope to see the Inglewood police officers who shot them face criminal prosecution.
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A lawsuit has been filed by the family of a man fatally shot by an L.A. sheriff's deputy who mistook the black COVID mask he was holding for a gun.
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An independent discipline panel and a demand for access to all body worn camera video: L.A. Supervisors seek ways to force oversight on a recalcitrant Sheriff Villanueva.
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The L.A. Congresswoman wants the U.S. Department of Justice to look into allegations that a deputies' clique is operating out of the Sheriff's Department's Compton station.
