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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
September 6, 2017 |
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Law Enforcement News
Photos: Connecticut K-9 Gets Hero's Send-Off Before Being Euthanized
A K-9 received a hero's send-off before he was put down. The Middletown Police Department wrote on Facebook that K-9 Hunter had been ill for the past couple of days. Tests revealed he had an aggressive form of liver cancer and doctors recommended euthanization. The department posted photos of Officer Michael D'Aresta carrying Hunter through a line of saluting officers as the duo made their way to the vet's office.
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Slain California Deputy Kept Shooting, Even After Bullet Hit His Heart
The Sacramento County Sheriff's deputy killed in a hotel shootout last week continued to fire his weapon at an armed gunman, even after a bullet had pierced through the soft tissue of his shoulder and hit his heart, Sheriff Scott Jones said during a press conference Tuesday. Deputy Robert French, a 21-year veteran of the department working for the North Division, rushed to the hotel parking lot after hearing reports of shots fired at the Ramada Inn, Sgt. Shaun Hampton said Tuesday.
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LAPD Officer Injured In Crash During North Hollywood Chase
A Los Angeles police officer was injured today in a crash during a vehicle chase of suspects in the North Hollywood area. The crash occurred about 9:35 a.m. at Whitsett Avenue and Sherman Way, said Los Angeles police Officer Drake Madison. One suspect was taken into custody and at least one other suspect was being sought. It was not immediately known why police were chasing the suspects.
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Police Shooting At Reagan State Office Building Triggers Street Closure In Downtown L.A.
A police shooting at the Ronald Reagan state office building in downtown Los Angeles has triggered a street closure on Spring Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The street closure was ordered on Spring Street between 3rd and 4th streets, the LAPD said. The California Highway Patrol was involved in the shooting but no other details were available, CHP officials said.
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Son Slays Dad, Murders Two More In Wild Shooting, Carjacking Rampage? Suspect In Court
An initial court appearance is slated Wednesday for the suspected rampage killing carjacker who allegedly murdered his father and then killed two other men blocks apart. The 36-year-old man arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of the two men and the wounding of another in the unincorporated Lennox area is also suspected of fatally shooting his father and wounding a woman in the Del Rey section of Los Angeles. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers were summoned at 6:20 p.m.
MyNewsLA.com |
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Dispute Over Parking Space Leads To Man's Death, Police Say
When Valencia Pitts saved a parking spot with a cone in front of her South LA home a few weeks ago she never imagined it would lead to her brother's death. Pitts says a nearby neighbor got upset over her saving that parking spot weeks ago and the neighbors brought it up again on Labor Day. Valencia's brother Charles Young and his mother Robin Pitts went to talk with the neighbors. Young was later fatally shot, police said. For a parking spot, a parking spot, it makes no sense, Valencia Pitts said.
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Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Trying To Rape Woman Outside Her Van Nuys Apartment As Passersby Ignored Pleas For Help
Los Angeles police arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of trying to sexually assault a woman outside her Van Nuys apartment last month as she fought and kicked for several minutes while no one came to her aid, authorities said. Antonio Reyes was arrested Tuesday in Arleta, where he lives and works, on suspicion of attempted rape, said LAPD Officer Mike Lopez. About 5:45 a.m. on Aug. 12, the woman was walking home when a man confronted her, speaking in Spanish, which she does not speak, police said.
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Man Charged With Felony Assault In Attack On 15-Year-Old High School Baseball Player
A 21-year-old man was charged Tuesday with a felony assault count stemming from an attack that left a 15-year-old San Pedro High School baseball player in an intensive care unit. Jaymel Williams pleaded not guilty to one felony count of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, along with an allegation that he personally inflicted great bodily injury during the commission of the crime. His next court date is Sept. 13 at the Long Beach courthouse.
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California Police Body Camera Transparency Bill Is Shelved For The Year
A bill that would have opened public access to police body camera videos across California has been shelved. The measure, Assembly Bill 748, would have made public footage from police shootings and other cases considered to be in the public interest, including video of police uses of force or violent political protests. The bill, authored by Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), squeaked through the Senate Public Safety Committee in July, but no further hearings were held.
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Violent Confrontations Are Rising In California, May Double 2016 Totals
Violent and hostile confrontations statewide that resulted in crimes, arrests, significant property damage, cancellation of a scheduled event or injuries are on track to double in 2017 compared to 2016, according to a report released by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino. In California, there were 13 such incidents in all of 2016. But for 2017, by the end of August, there were 15 incidents. Last year, around the same time, there were seven. This upward trend has been seen not just in Southern California, but statewide, said Brian Levin, the center's director.
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Police: Gunrunner Bought Guns In Arkansas To Sell To Chicago Gangs
Klint Kelley left Chicago for rural Arkansas as teenager, hoping to get away from gangs and violence he'd known as city life. But federal prosecutors say that, as an adult, Kelley stayed connected to his hometown by trafficking guns. Kelley, 27, was arrested in Chicago Ridge on Sunday after driving 10 hours from his home in tiny Malvern, Arkansas, to hand off a cache of eight guns including five assault rifles in a sting operation four months in the making.
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Public Safety News
LA Fire Department Discovers A Body In The LA River
A body was found Tuesday in the dry riverbed of the Los Angeles River in the Los Feliz area. The discovery was made about 12:40 p.m. near the 3200 block of Hyperion Avenue, said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department. Information was not immediately available on the gender or approximate age of the person, nor on the possible cause of death. Police were sent to investigate.
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La Tuna Fire Containment Increases To 80%: We Hit This Hard,' LAFD Captain Says
A brush fire that triggered hundreds of evacuations in Glendale and Burbank as it tore across the Verdugo Mountains over the weekend was 80% contained Tuesday evening, Los Angeles fire officials said. The La Tuna fire, which began Friday afternoon amid a sweltering heat wave, shut down miles of the 210 Freeway in the Sunland-Tujunga area for days as winds whipped the flames in all directions. We hit this hard, we hit it fast and we've done everything we can, and we're proud to say out of those nearly 1,400 homes, only five have been destroyed and that we've been really able to jump from 30% to 70% containment, Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Erik Scott said early Tuesday.
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Local Government News
After Big Reopening, LA's Angels Flight Railway Is Closed Again
Angels Flight, billed as the world's shortest railway, should be back in operation on Wednesday or Thursday, a representative of the company operating the 116-year-old funicular said Tuesday. The Labor Day closure which came just four days after Mayor Eric Garcetti presided over a ceremony marking its reopening after a four-year closure was due to a damaged part that was likely weakened from 100-degree- plus temperatures over the weekend, according to Steve DeWitt, a senior vice president at ACS Infrastructure.
Los Angeles Daily News |
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2028 Olympics News
L.A.'s 2028 Olympic Bid Could Get A Big Boost Under New California Legislation
Los Angeles' 2028 Olympic bid could get a huge boost under new state legislation unveiled Friday. Under the bill, any bus, train or other mass transit project connected to the Olympic bid wouldn't have to follow the state's primary law governing development, saving lots of time, money and eliminating some litigation risk. The legislation, Senate Bill 789, also would provide major relief under the California Environmental Quality Act to a proposed NBA arena for the Los Angeles Clippers in Inglewood.
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