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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
July 20, 2016 |
Authorities To Provide Details About Kansas Officer's Death
A police officer in Kansas City, Kansas, was killed Tuesday afternoon after pursuing suspects wanted in a drive-by shooting, authorities said.Kansas City, Kansas, police Capt. Robert Melton was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police said two people are in custody and they are not looking for any other suspects, NBC affiliate KSHB reported. Melton's death is the latest to rock the law enforcement community in the city of 467,000 people after KCK Police Detective Brad Lancaster was killed in May.
NBC News
Los Angeles landmarks lit blue in honor of law enforcement officers Los Angeles City Hall, the Department of Water and Power headquarters and the LAX pylons were lit blue Monday night in memory of law enforcement officers killed in recent violent attacks in Dallas, Baton Rouge and St. Joseph, Michigan. “Attacks on law enforcement officers are an assault on our democracy and way of life,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who ordered the landmarks be lit.
Los Angeles Daily News
Memorial Service To Be Held For Long Beach Police Dog Killed In Line Of Duty
A memorial service will be held Wednesday for a Long Beach police dog who was fatally shot while working to apprehend a knife-wielding suspect in Long Beach. The memorial service will be held at LBPOA Park, located at 7390 East Carson Street. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Credo's memory to the Long Beach K-9 Officers Association.
CBS 2
How is local law enforcement reacting to ambush of police officers?
Three police officers are dead and three more are injured after law enforcement officials in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said they were “ambushed” Sunday. It's just the latest tragedy in a recent spate of violence touched off by two high-profile police-involved shootings in Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Larry Mantle spoke with Brian Levin, criminologist and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State, San Bernardino, and LAPD Detective Lou Turriaga to unpack the details of the tragedy and find out how local law enforcement is reacting.
KPCC FM Audio Clip
$50K Reward Offered In Killing Of 21-Year-Old In Hyde Park
A $50,000 reward was offered Tuesday for information leading to the arrest of a person suspected in the killing of a young man six months ago in the Hyde Park area of South Los Angeles. Family members joined police investigators at a news conference Tuesday seeking justice for Gerrick Mykul Thomas. Detectives handed out fliers in the area where the victim was killed, hoping witnesses would come forward.
KCAL 9
Man Fatally Stabbed in Chest During Fight in South L.A. A man was fatally stabbed during an altercation in the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood of South Los Angeles late Tuesday night, police said. Authorities investigate a fatal stabbing in South Los Angeles on July 19, 2016. The fight broke out in an alley near West 105th Street and South Main Street at about 10:50 p.m., said Lt. Clint Dohmen with the Los Angeles Police Department. Investigators believe the fight involved a group of people, including the victim who was stabbed at least once in the chest, Dohmen said.
KTLA 5
Third Pursuit Suspect Captured While Hiding In Baldwin Park Neighborhood
Three suspects who crashed a possibly stolen SUV into a concrete wall are all in custody after a brief search by a SWAT team in Baldwin Park. Irwindale police chased the possibly stolen SUV into neighboring Baldwin Park, where two suspects were taken into custody after the crash. At least one suspect is believed to have thrown a gun from the SUV, and police were searching the 4800 block of Elizabeth Street.
KCAL 9
LAPD Bust Major Honey Oil Lab in Glassell Park
A major drug raid in Glassell Park landed a big haul for the Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday. Authorities said they entered the home on Sagamore Way near Caledonia Way and found a marijuana growing operation and a honey oil extraction lab. Detectives said the operation was very dangerous, as the gas used in the closed loop system is highly flammable. "They believe that it's being isolated and it's being contained, however, it's not. It comes out of the pipes, it comes out of the hoses, and eventually when it gets on to the room any little spark could set it off," Det. Mario Barillas with the LAPD explained.
ABC 7
LAPD Seeks Community Support For I-watch App Aimed To Stop Violent Attacks
The Los Angeles Police Department sought community support for its i-Watch app aimed at gathering tips about potential plots to commit violence. From the massacre at an Orlando night club, to the shooting of five Dallas police officers, to the terror attack in San Bernardino, the public's inevitable question for police is how the attacks could have been stopped. "The only way we could stop it is to have a flow of information from the public," LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said.
ABC 7
LA civil rights advocates, police call for understanding at ‘Peace and Justice Tribute'
Los Angeles civil rights activists called for a renewed commitment to non-violence after the shooting deaths of eight law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge and Dallas, and outrage over the deaths of two African-American men at the hands of police. “We move in the spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King,” said Rev. K.W. Tulloss, regional president of the National Action Network, at a town hall-style meeting Monday night at the group's headquarters in L.A. “We're not anti-police. We're anti-police brutality,” he told a crowd of about 100 community members and leaders.
Los Angeles Daily News
LAPD Chief Meets With L.A. Police Commission As BLM Calls For His Resignation Again
Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday that local Black Lives Matter activists have not been interested in having a productive discussion with him on policing issues as they staged a sit-in outside City Hall for an eighth day. The activists have been calling for Beck's resignation, claiming he has done too little to protect residents of color and has allowed questionable killings by police officers to go unpunished.
CBS 2
Court commissioner calls Venice boardwalk cleanups 'troubling,' refuses to punish homeless advocate
Calling Venice homeless cleanups “troubling,” a Los Angeles court commissioner has turned down the city attorney's request to punish a homeless man for protesting by lying in the path of a sanitation truck. “People are not disposable property,” Commissioner Alan I. Rubin said Monday during a sentencing hearing at the Airport Courthouse for activist David Busch. “You just can't sweep people up.”
Los Angeles Times
LA County approves $6.6M to help 500,000 reduce felonies to misdemeanors
Almost $7 million in funding was approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday for a year-long campaign to reach 500,000 people who are eligible to have felonies on their records reduced to misdemeanors under Proposition 47. The money will come out of the county's annual budget and will help pay for mailers, town hall meetings, and information on the county's 2-1-1 information line, county officials told supervisors. The goal is to reach 500,000 people involved in some 819,000 cases across Los Angeles County who may be eligible for outreach, services and help in seeking employment, county officials said. Some outreach has already started and will continue until October 2017.
Los Angeles Daily News
LA County To Pay $10 Million To Man Imprisoned For 20 Years
Los Angeles County will pay $10.1 million to a man who spent 20 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned. Supervisors voted Tuesday to settle a lawsuit filed by Francisco Carrillo Jr. Carrillo was 16 when he was convicted of killing Donald Sarpy in a drive-by attack in Lynwood in 1991. However, witnesses who identified Carrillo as the gunman from a photo lineup recanted in 2011, saying they couldn't see the killer's face. A judge ruled that the eyewitness evidence was false or tainted and ordered Carrillo released.
Associated Press
CHP sends an army of officers to help protect GOP convention
The biggest California contingent in Cleveland this week isn't the state's 172 delegates to the Republican National Convention — it's the 300 California Highway Patrol officers who were sent to Ohio to help provide security at the four-day Trump-fest. CHP spokeswoman F ran Clader said the agency sent officers at the request of Ohio officials as part of a federal interstate mutual-aid pact. She declined to confirm the number, but B rad Alexander of the state Office of Emergency Services said the total was 300 — or 4 percent of the CHP's 7,600-officer force.
San Francisco Chronicle
Gunfire Often Connected To Gangs Hitting Chicago Children
The Chicago mother thought she knew when it was safe to take her children outside, that she could protect them by sizing up and avoiding the people whom trouble seemed to follow. Then a bullet fired from a gun that D'Antignay Brashear never saw pierced the cheek of her 4-year-old son, Kavan Collins. It fractured the boy's jaw and shattered some teeth before it went out his other cheek, all while he held his mother's hand.
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L.A. housing measure has an unexpected foe: tenant activists
When labor unions and community groups teamed up to back a November affordable housing ballot measure, their plans drew a predictable set of opponents.The ballot measure, called Build Better L.A., would impose new requirements for affordable housing on real estate developers who seek to build projects bigger than city rules ordinarily allow. Business groups such as the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce said the proposal would end up making it harder and costlier to build needed housing, pointing to labor requirements they said would favor unions.
Los Angeles Times
Sewage Spill in L.A. Grows to 2.4 Million Gallons, Forces Closure of Beaches in Long Beach
A damaged sewage line that has been a hazard since Monday afternoon ruptured again Tuesday, spilling at least 2.4 million gallons of sewage into the Los Angeles River and forcing the closure of all beaches in Long Beach, officials said. Crews worked overnight to contain the initial spill and finally stopped it at 10 p.m. Monday, said Tonya Durrell, a spokesman for the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works. However, the cracked pipe split again Tuesday as repairs were underway, she said.
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In Westlake, homeless people take cues from immigrant street vendors
Josiah Payne struggled in Kansas City, bouncing from job to job and from apartment to apartment. He packed up and headed to Los Angeles two years ago, carrying with him the well-trodden transplant dream of becoming an actor, musician — something. But in just four months of living in the city, he got arrested and lost his job and apartment. Like nearly 47,000 down-and-out people in Los Angeles County, he found himself living on the streets.
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