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the union that represents the
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
November 15 |
Law Enforcement News
Death Penalty Recommended For Florida Man In Killing Of 2 LEOs
Everett Glenn Miller should be executed for killing two Kissimmee police officers, a jury unanimously recommended Wednesday. The 12-member jury deliberated for five-and-a-half hours at the Osceola County Courthouse before deciding the Marine Corps veteran should be sentenced to death for fatally shooting Sgt. Richard “Sam” Howard, 36, and Officer Matthew Baxter, 26. Miller showed no visible emotion as the verdict was read, and his family did not comment after the recommendation was announced. The families and friends of Howard and Baxter silently wiped away tears. The same jury found Miller, 48, guilty of first-degree murder on Sept. 11 in the 2017 killings. Outside the courthouse, Baxter's widow, Sadia Baxter, said “justice was served” with the jury's decision.
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LAPD Motorcycle Officer Injured In Valley Village Crash
An LAPD officer was injured in a crash on the northbound 170 Freeway near Magnolia Boulevard Thursday evening. The northbound side of the freeway was completely shut down and drivers were advised to used alternate routes. According to the California Highway Patrol, the collision occurred between the LAPD motorcycle officer and a 2008 Ford Escape. The officer appeared to have suffered non-life threatening injuries. The condition of the driver is unknown. The cause of the crash is under investigation. No further details were immediately known.
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California LEO Injured In Hit-and-Run
A Santa Rosa police officer was injured when a hit-and-run driver allegedly forced his patrol car off the street and into a tree. KPIX reports the officer, whose name has not been released, had to swerve in an evasive maneuver after a white hatchback started driving the wrong way, coming toward the officer's patrol car. As the patrol car swerved, the officer lost control, drove onto the center median and hit a tree. The driver of the hatchback fled the scene, KPIX reports. The officer was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and then released. His patrol car was totaled. Elizabeth Balchowsky, the driver accused of causing the crash, later returned to the scene, authorities told KPIX. She initially denied any involvement but eventually accepted responsibility and consented to a police interview. She was arrested for felony hit and run and causing serious injury.
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Man Convicted In Willowbrook Street-Racing Crash That Left Woman Dead, Her Brother Injured
A man was convicted of killing a woman and gravely injuring her brother in a hit-and-run collision caused by street-racing in Willowbrook earlier this year, prosecutors said Thursday. Tyree Coleman, 20, pleaded no contest Wednesday to vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run driving in the crash that left 23-year-old Compton resident Bethany Holguin dead, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. The defendant was immediately sentenced to seven years in state prison, officials said. The night of May 11, Coleman allegedly blew through a stop sign while racing another vehicle down 131st Street. His vehicle slammed into the car carrying Holguin and her 20-year-old brother, Emilio Holguin, in the intersection at Towne Avenue. The violent impact was captured on surveillance. Emilio Holguin was taken to the hospital in critical condition, while his older sister died at the scene.
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Judge Rules Man Accused Of Killing Nipsey Hussle Will Go To Trial
A judge Thursday denied the defense's bid to dismiss two of the charges against the man charged with murdering Nipsey Hussle outsider the rapper's clothing store in the Hyde Park area of Los Angeles in March. "The court finds that there is enough to go to the jury," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry said in rejecting defense attorney Lowynn Young's motion to dismiss two counts of attempted murder against Eric Holder Jr. Holder, who will turn 30 next week, was indicted May 9 on one count each of murder and possession of a firearm by a felon and two counts each of attempted murder and assault with a firearm. The indictment also includes allegations that Holder personally and intentionally discharged a handgun and that he personally inflicted great bodily injury.
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L.A. Man Who Ran Online Fraud Scheme Sentenced To Prison
A Los Angeles man was sentenced Thursday to 57 months behind bars for running a scheme to fleece online investors out of more than $8 million. Jason B. Scharf, 38, of Valley Village was also ordered to serve three years on supervised release following his federal prison term, according to defense attorney Stanley Stone. Scharf pleaded guilty a year ago in Los Angeles federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, admitting his role as CEO of now-defunct CITrades, which swindled more than $8 million from at least 8,000 victims, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. As part of his plea, Scharf admitted that from February 2013 through December 2015, he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the company, using lies and false promises to induce investors to purchase binary options.
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Student Opens Fire In California High School, Killing 2
A student pulled a gun from his backpack and opened fire at a Southern California high school Thursday, killing two students and wounding three others before shooting himself in the head on his 16th birthday, authorities said. The attacker was hospitalized in critical condition, officials said, and investigators offered no immediate motive. The gunfire began around 7:30 a.m. at Saugus High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita. Authorities estimated that the suspect took just 16 seconds to pull out the weapon, shoot five classmates and turn the gun on himself. At the time, students were “milling around” and greeting each other in an outdoor quad area, sheriff's homicide Capt. Kent Wegener said. Surveillance video showed the shooter standing still while “everyone is active around him.” “He just fires from where he is. He doesn't chase anybody. He doesn't move,” Wegener said.
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How California Got Tough On Guns
The modern American gun debate began on May 2, 1967, when 30 protesting members of the Black Panther Party marched into the California Capitol with loaded handguns, shotguns and rifles. As photos of gun-toting radicals from Oakland hit front pages across the country, many Americans were shocked to see who was embracing the Second Amendment. In California, as in most states at the time, there were few restrictions on carrying loaded weapons in public. That soon changed. The Panthers' efforts to “police the police” already had led Republican Assemblyman Don Mulford to propose legislation to ban the “open carry” of loaded firearms within California cities and towns. After the Panthers showed up in the Capitol, his bill sailed through and was signed by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan. (Yes, that Reagan). It's hard to say which now seems more unlikely: that two dozen revolutionaries could legally stroll into the state Assembly chamber with semi-automatic rifles, or that a Republican governor would champion stricter gun control.
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More Than 3,000 Wounded Or Killed In U.S. Mass Shootings Since January 2018
Since January 2018 to present, there have been 705 mass shootings in the United States, with 3,320 people wounded or killed.
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Local Government News
L.A. Councilmen Call For Boycott Of Brazilian Products Over Amazon Wildfires
Los Angeles City Councilmen Paul Koretz and David Ryu Thursday called on the city to cut ties with companies that conduct business contributing to the wildfires burning in the Amazon Rainforest and the murder of indigenous people in the Brazilian wildland. The recent fires have been linked to aggressive taking of lands for agriculture. Rallies calling for the boycott were held Thursday in both Los Angeles and New York City. “Today, our two largest cities call for the other 35,000 cities in the United States to join us in our boycott of Brazil, its cattle industry and the reckless corporations profiting from deforestation, murder and climate madness,” Koretz said. “If we lose the Amazon, we lose our critical carbon-sequestration defense, and we lose the climate fight, period.” Koretz said he wants the entire country behind the boycott by the end of the year.
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