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Chris Dorner against the LAPD: ‘He knows what he’s doing. We trained him’
For the hundreds of police officers now searching for him, Dorner’s once-prized attributes have taken a sinister turn In pictures he is invariably in uniform and smiling, and friends say Christopher Jordan Dorner was as direct and warm as his gaze. A big man, a dedicated officer, smart, and good…
LAPD refuses to release video of woman’s fatal arrest involving kick to the groin
The family of the woman who died after being booted in the groin while being arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department has filed a lawsuit demanding footage of the fatal encounter be released. “I go to sleep and I think of her and it is horrible because I know…
LAPD apologizes to Notorious B.I.G’s family for releasing autopsy ‘prematurely’
The Los Angeles Police Department apologized Saturday to the family of slain rapper Christopher “Notorious B.I.G” Wallace for an “administrative error” that led to the early release of his autopsy, The Los Angeles Times reported. Wallace’s autopsy was released Friday, almost 16 years after his unsolved March 1997 murder, but…
Four wounded in USC campus shooting: police
At least four people were wounded overnight in a shooting on the campus of the University of Southern California, police said early Thursday. An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed there had been a shooting on campus and said four people had been taken to hospital, but could…
Woman dies after genital kick from LAPD officer
The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating at least five officers after one of them allegedly stomped on a woman’s genitals and she later died of suffocation. Patrol car video camera captured a struggle between police and Alesia Thomas and several officers on July 22, according to the Los Angeles…
LAPD filmed punching man for skateboarding on wrong side of street
In a scene that brought with it echoes of the Los Angeles Police Department’s most infamous moment, residents filmed four officers holding down and punching a young man picked up outside his home for allegedly skateboarding on the wrong side of the street. According to KTLA-TV, a protest is being…
Colbert to Fred Willard: Use the Internet for porn like everyone else
Thursday night on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert lamented the arrest of actor Fred Willard for “lewd conduct” in an X-rated movie theater. Police arrested the “Best in Show” and “A Mighty Wind” actor for allegedly masturbating in public while watching a pornographic film. Colbert had two…
LGBT rights group headquarters targeted with bomb threat
LGBT rights group the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) evacuated its offices in Washington, D.C., Tuesday afternoon after the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) received an unspecified bomb threat against a “national gay rights organization,” according to reporting from Metro Weekly. Other LGBT rights organizations, including nearby National Gay and Lesbian…
‘Violent’ Madonna stalker escapes from hospital
A man convicted of stalking Madonna and who has “very violent tendencies” has escaped from a psychiatric hospital, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said Thursday. Robert Dewey Hoskins, 54, who was convicted in 1996 of stalking Madonna — he once scaled a wall of the star’s Hollywood home and…
Two suspects charged over LA arson spree
LOS ANGELES — Two men have been charged over a spree of more than 50 arson attacks which kept Hollywood on edge over the New Year holiday, Los Angeles police said Monday, after a fourth night of fires. A new suspect, named as 55-year-old Alejandro Pineta, was arrested in the…
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