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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
August 9, 2016 |
America's Mayors: ‘We're Afraid for Our Police'
A year after America's mayors declared their concern that “Ferguson could happen to us,” a more multifaceted anxiety over the relationship between police and minority communities has taken hold in the country's city halls, a new Politico Magazine survey finds. ." The overwhelmingly Democratic mayors could hardly be said to have put race and policing on the back burner—a slim majority, 50.7 percent, told Politico that they were at least “worried” about the safety of people of color in officer interactions. But in a striking finding, that number paled in comparison when the question was reversed: Eighty-six percent of mayors suggested they were “worried” or “very worried” for their officers' safety.
Politico
LAPD's 'Shop With A Cop' program helping kids from the community in Hollywood
Some lucky kids in Hollywood got to participate in the LAPD's "Shop with a Cop" program today . Officers with the Hollywood division joined the kids at the Staples on Sunset Boulevard. They walked them through the store and helped them pick out stuff they will need for back-to-school. Hot ticket items were backpacks, notebooks, pencils and paper. Each child was given a 100-dollar gift card to spend at Staples.
FOX 11
Firefighters, Police, Neighbors Rescue Woman From Vermont Knolls House Fire
Neighbors, police officers and firefighters worked together to pull a woman out of a burning home in Vermont Knolls Tuesday morning. The fire started around 1 a.m. in the 800 block of West 74th Street. Neighbors tried to get the woman out, but a washing machine was blocking the back door. Firefighters arrived at the scene in time to cut the burglar bars off the back window. Then officers who were driving by saw the scene and ran to help pull the woman out to safety.
ABC 7
Man Fatally Shot In Pacoima After Argument; Suspect Caught A 35-year-old man was killed after an argument at a Pacoima home escalated into a shooting on Monday, Los Angeles police said. LAPD received a call about the incident shortly before 10:45 a.m. Police said there was an argument between the suspect and victim at a home in the 13000 block of Montford Street. According to investigators, the suspect shot the victim and fled the scene in a burgundy car.
ABC 7
Arson investigators called in after North Hollywood facility catches fire for 2nd time
A candle factory that has been in business since 1949 caught fire not once, but twice this weekend and the cause of both blazes remain under investigation. The first fire broke out at 4:51 p.m. Saturday at the General Wax and Candle Co. at 6858 N Beck Ave., with flames visible from the building, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said. It took 21 minutes to snuff out the fire and no injuries were reported.
Los Angeles Daily News
Police Shoot Armed Suspect In Eagle Rock
An officer-involved shooting has occurred in Eagle Rock, police said Tuesday. Two officers responded to a home shortly after 2 a.m. in an area located near Ave 55 and Nordyke Street for report of a man with a gun in a driveway, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. During a traffic stop, authorities encountered an armed man believed to be in his 30s.
CBS 2
How new DNA testing could help solve 45-year-old cold-case murder
Someone punched her grandmother in the face, broke her ribs and ruptured her spleen. Someone strangled her grandmother with such force that they crushed her larynx. Someone shot her grandmother in the back of the head. Then, in the opinion of Janelle Frese of La Palma, someone slipped out of her grandmother's house into the sunset, leaving her grandfather to explain -- for the rest of his life -- that he indeed loved his wife and was not her killer.
Los Angeles Daily News
LA sheriff essentially bans deputies from shooting at moving cars
The L.A. County Sheriff's Department has changed its policy to essentially ban sheriff's deputies from shooting at moving vehicles unless another deadly weapon is present. For years, deputies in pursuit of a suspect in a car said they feared being run over and shot. Some suspects have said they were just trying to get away. Law enforcement agencies from across the country have restricted shooting at vehicles, including another major agency in the Los Angeles area, the Los Angeles Police Department.
KPCC 89.3 FM
CBP officers seize religious candle filled with crystal meth Customs and Border Protection confiscated this innocent looking religious candle that passed through the air cargo facility in Ontario. It weighed more than it should have, and inside they found a blue cylinder. They cut into it and found a white crystalized substance that tested positive as crystal meth. It weighed just over one and a half pounds and has a street value of about 23-thousand dollars.
FOX 11
Video of 'vicious' attack on Ohio cop, killing of suspect released
Surveillance video of a Cincinnati officer fatally shooting a knife-wielding robbery suspect shows the man lunging at the officer sitting in the driver's seat of a police cruiser that had just arrived, then being pulled down onto a sidewalk by a second officer within seconds. The city released the soundless video Monday after a prosecutor concluded the Sunday morning shooting was justified. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters says 25-year-old Jawari Porter tried to stab the officer with a "folding lock-blade-style knife."
Associated Press
Cop's documentary aims to shed light on after-effects of an OIS
Three years ago, George Police Officer Patrick Shaver took a leave of absence. He put his house up for sale, bought a trailer and set out across the country with his wife to interview over 90 police officers, experts and police psychologists. The documentary “Officer Involved” is a culmination of events and influences that occurred in Shaver's life and eventually inspired him to do the film.
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L.A. Rams News
Sports mogul's estate forcing out North Texas lake residents
“W.T. Waggoner Estate, Inc., ... has decided to change the use of the land in Cara Blanca Park on February 1, 2017 and return the lake shoreline to its natural, uninhabited landscape to support and improve the microecosystem in and around Lake Diversion.” It meant that people who had homes on Lake Diversion in North Texas would lose them. The new owner of the historic Waggoner Ranch wants them gone. It sits on ranchland recently purchased by sports mogu lStan Kroenke, owner of the National Football League Los Angeles Rams, the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets and National Hockey League's Colorado Avalanche.
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City Government News
A Full Plate Of Higher Taxes Awaits LA Voters This Fall
Thanksgiving falls on Nov. 24 this year, but for politicians in Los Angeles, turkey day is Tuesday, Nov. 8. That's when they will attempt to carve up taxpayers with at least four proposed tax increases – a sales tax hike and three measures that would increase property taxes. It's no coincidence that these tax-hike proposals are all on the ballot this year. Political experts believe tax increases have a better chance of passing in presidential elections, when turnout is higher.
Fox & Hounds
Petitions seek 2017 vote on LA medical marijuana clinics Proponents said Friday they would begin gathering signatures this weekend for a proposed ballot initiative aimed at repealing Proposition D, a Los Angeles ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, and replacing it with a permitting process. The Cannabis Activity Permits and Regulation initiative, which was approved by the city clerk this week for circulation, is sponsored by the UCBA Trade Association, which includes more than 45 medical marijuana dispensaries that have been operating under limited immunity from Proposition D, and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, a labor union.
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