Law Enforcement

Amateur Videographer Captures Deadly Officer-Involved Shooting On Camera
Craig Lally, president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, released the following statement Sunday. It read in part:“Testimony and facts are still being collected and assessed. Until that investigation concludes, the LAPPL urges everyone to reserve their judgment as there is much to learn about the incident. In fact, audio heard on a video recording during the incident clearly suggests that the officers felt they were in life-threatening danger.”
CBS Los Angeles

Los Angeles Police Shoot, Kill Homeless Man in Confrontation Caught on Video
Los Angeles police shot and killed a homeless man during a confrontation that was captured on video Sunday morning in the skid row area of downtown, officials and witnesses said. Officers were dispatched to the area of East Sixth Street and South San Pedro Street about 11:36 a.m., said Officer Jack Richter, spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department. Richter said police went to the location after a call of an altercation between two people. In a later news conference at the scene, LAPD Sgt. Barry Montgomery said the officers were investigating a report of a robbery.
KTLA5 , Los Angeles Times

LAPD Skid Row Shooting Caught On Video: Protest Scheduled After Homeless Man Shot By Police In Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Police Department, the independent inspector general and the district attorney's office will investigate the fatal police shooting of a homeless man in Skid Row, "very, very carefully," Police Commission President Steve Soboroff said late Sunday, according to The Los Angeles Times. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Police Protective League, which is the LAPD officers' labor union, urged "everyone to reserve their judgment" until investigations are completed, LA Weekly reported. The union reportedly said, in a statement, that the audio "clearly suggests that the officers felt that they were in life-threatening danger."
International Business Times

2 LAPD Officers, Suspect Injured In Traffic Collision
Three people were injured Saturday in a traffic collision in South Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, around 12:10 a.m. a white vehicle driving southbound made a left turn in front of an LAPD cruiser traveling northbound — carrying two officers and a suspect in the back of their unit — which caused the cruiser to hit a building.
CBS Los Angeles

Suspect in L.A. street race that kills two turns self in
A suspect in this week's fatal Chatsworth street racing crash surrendered to police on Saturday, authorities said. Henry Michael Gevorgyan, 21, surrendered at the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division station, LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. Gevorgyan had been identified this week as the driver of a Ford Mustang that spun out of control and plowed into a crowd near Canoga Avenue and Plummer Street, killing two people and seriously injuring another.
Los Angeles Times

Man Found Dead, Possibly Shot, in Lake Balboa Home
A homicide investigation was underway Sunday after a man's body was found in a Lake Balboa home after possibly being shot, officials said. The man was found around 5:15 p.m. Saturday in the 16400 block of Gilmore Street, Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Steve Nassief told the Los Angeles Times.
KTLA 5

Police apprehend Echo Park burglary suspect
An 18-year-old male who may have been involved in numerous residential burglaries across Echo Park was apprehended earlier this month after a woman returning to her residence saw the suspect inside her home. Senior Lead Officer Gina Chovan with the Northeast Division said the suspect from South Central Los Angeles was working with an accomplice who has not been arrested, but police have noticed a sharp drop in neighborhood burglaries since the Feb. 11 arrest. “We hope that the arrest did deter” the other suspect, said Chovan. “They were doing a real good sweep” of Echo Park homes.
TheEastsiderLA.com

1 Killed in North Hollywood Hit-and-Run
Los Angeles police were searching for the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in North Hollywood. A white 2000 Toyota Tacoma struck and killed a female pedestrian at about 8:20 p.m. Friday at Saticoy Street and Lemp Avenue, police said.
ABC 7

Inmate Found Hiding in Jacuzzi after Escaping from lomita Sheriff's Station
An inmate who escaped from the Lomita Sheriff's Station Sunday afternoon was found hiding in a covered Jacuzzi in a nearby backyard, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. The hours-long search was centered in the 25800 block of Cypress Street.
ABC 7

Elections

LA voters asked to change city's charter on election rules Tuesday
Los Angeles voters will be asked on Tuesday whether city and school board officials should be elected in the same year as the president and the governor, instead of hold local elections in the off-years. Charter Amendment 1 and Charter Amendment 2 on the March 3 ballot calls for holding city and school board elections in even-numbered years, instead of odd-numbered years.
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