Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement James Butler was tired of watching protests against racial injustice end abruptly each night as Los Angeles police ordered demonstrators to go home. The 22-year-old founder of Black Future Project, one of many new activist groups that sprang up in the city amid waves of demonstrations following the death of George Floyd, was among thousands of marchers who took to the streets earlier this summer calling for wholesale change to a criminal justice system he feels routinely brutalizes Black and brown people.But as city and county...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement James Butler was tired of watching protests against racial injustice end abruptly each night as Los Angeles police ordered demonstrators to go home. The 22-year-old founder of Black Future Project, one of many new activist groups that sprang up in the city amid waves of demonstrations following the death of George Floyd, was among thousands of marchers who took to the streets earlier this summer calling for wholesale change to a criminal justice system he feels routinely brutalizes Black and brown people.But as city and county...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Los Angeles County’s top public health official announced an investigation into over the weekend that seemed to fly in the face of social distancing requirements as coronavirus cases continue to rise in Southern California.Barbara Ferrer, director of the county’s public health department, said both her office and the state would be investigating the July 31 event on Vine Street.“We had inspectors out there the very next day. As many of you know, that place is shuttered and closed for business. The owners have said they only opened...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Los Angeles County’s top public health official announced an investigation into over the weekend that seemed to fly in the face of social distancing requirements as coronavirus cases continue to rise in Southern California.Barbara Ferrer, director of the county’s public health department, said both her office and the state would be investigating the July 31 event on Vine Street.“We had inspectors out there the very next day. As many of you know, that place is shuttered and closed for business. The owners have said they only opened...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Less than a week after video surfaced of a Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, the man challenging Jackie Lacey for the office of Los Angeles County district attorney By late June, after weeks of unrest and protests over Floyd’s death that included demands for her resignation, to investigate future police killings, a possible nod to criticisms that internal reviews are biased toward police. The November contest between Lacey and former San Francisco Dist. Atty. George Gascón to oversee the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Less than a week after video surfaced of a Minneapolis police officer pressing his knee into the neck of George Floyd, the man challenging Jackie Lacey for the office of Los Angeles County district attorney By late June, after weeks of unrest and protests over Floyd’s death that included demands for her resignation, to investigate future police killings, a possible nod to criticisms that internal reviews are biased toward police. The November contest between Lacey and former San Francisco Dist. Atty. George Gascón to oversee the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | AdvertisementZachary Hammond, an unarmed white 19-year-old, was in the middle of a seemingly routine vehicle stop in South Carolina last week when a police officer fatally shot him.Zachary Hammond, 19, was killed July 26. (Bland Richter)Police have said the officer fired in self-defense during a drug sting, but a subsequent autopsy seems to counter the officer’s claim that Hammond tried to hit him with a car.Hammond’s death left his family scrambling for answers, but it did not spark the national outcry that has accompanied other fatal police...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | AdvertisementZachary Hammond, an unarmed white 19-year-old, was in the middle of a seemingly routine vehicle stop in South Carolina last week when a police officer fatally shot him.Zachary Hammond, 19, was killed July 26. (Bland Richter)Police have said the officer fired in self-defense during a drug sting, but a subsequent autopsy seems to counter the officer’s claim that Hammond tried to hit him with a car.Hammond’s death left his family scrambling for answers, but it did not spark the national outcry that has accompanied other fatal police...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In one video, at least eight Los Angeles police officers surround a woman lying in a Hollywood street as the buzz of a Taser fills the air. People scream from apartment balconies for the officers, who appear to be firing the stun gun at the woman, to stop.In another video, an LAPD vehicle barrels into a crowd of protesters in Pershing Square, nearly driving over one before backing up and speeding away as protesters throw objects at the car.On Tuesday, footage of a curfew arrest in Hollywood ends with the unarmed arrestee held at...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In one video, at least eight Los Angeles police officers surround a woman lying in a Hollywood street as the buzz of a Taser fills the air. People scream from apartment balconies for the officers, who appear to be firing the stun gun at the woman, to stop.In another video, an LAPD vehicle barrels into a crowd of protesters in Pershing Square, nearly driving over one before backing up and speeding away as protesters throw objects at the car.On Tuesday, footage of a curfew arrest in Hollywood ends with the unarmed arrestee held at...WW…