Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Protesters demonstrating against clashed for hours with police on the streets of downtown Los Angeles, blocking the 110 Freeway, damaging cars and property and getting into a series of tense altercations with officers. Looting and vandalism were reported across the area early Saturday as police tried to push out the demonstrators, many of whom were arrested and hustled off in buses. At least four LAPD officers were hurt, some after being hit by debris.Fireworks were set off in the streets, the sparks hitting buildings. Smoke filled...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Protesters demonstrating against clashed for hours with police on the streets of downtown Los Angeles, blocking the 110 Freeway, damaging cars and property and getting into a series of tense altercations with officers. Looting and vandalism were reported across the area early Saturday as police tried to push out the demonstrators, many of whom were arrested and hustled off in buses. At least four LAPD officers were hurt, some after being hit by debris.Fireworks were set off in the streets, the sparks hitting buildings. Smoke filled...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In the wake of the officers in Northern California, more attention is being directed to the “boogaloo” movement, a far-right fringe group that has been tied to violence around the country.On Tuesday, federal law enforcement officials announced they were charging Air Force Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, and suspected accomplice Robert A. Justus Jr., 30, in the May 29 shooting death in Oakland. Carrillo also faces state charges in the June 6 killing of a .AdvertisementBrian Levin, executive director of the Center for the Study of Hate and...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In the wake of the officers in Northern California, more attention is being directed to the “boogaloo” movement, a far-right fringe group that has been tied to violence around the country.On Tuesday, federal law enforcement officials announced they were charging Air Force Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, and suspected accomplice Robert A. Justus Jr., 30, in the May 29 shooting death in Oakland. Carrillo also faces state charges in the June 6 killing of a .AdvertisementBrian Levin, executive director of the Center for the Study of Hate and...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating 56 allegations of during protests against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death, officials said Wednesday.Of the 56 investigations, 28 involve alleged use of force, the LAPD said Wednesday in a statement. Seven officers have been taken out of the field pending the outcome of the investigations.The LAPD has tasked 40 investigators with looking into the allegations of misconduct, excessive force and violations of departmental policy during the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating 56 allegations of during protests against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death, officials said Wednesday.Of the 56 investigations, 28 involve alleged use of force, the LAPD said Wednesday in a statement. Seven officers have been taken out of the field pending the outcome of the investigations.The LAPD has tasked 40 investigators with looking into the allegations of misconduct, excessive force and violations of departmental policy during the...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…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A longtime Los Angeles police SWAT sergeant is suing the LAPD, alleging the unit is run by a “SWAT Mafia” of veteran cops who encourage the use of deadly force and ostracized him for revealing its behavior.Sgt. Tim Colomey, who spent 11 years as a SWAT supervisor until last November, filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging retaliation for revealing that a group of veteran officers controlled the tactical unit’s operations and membership and punished him and others for speaking out.Colomey said in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement A longtime Los Angeles police SWAT sergeant is suing the LAPD, alleging the unit is run by a “SWAT Mafia” of veteran cops who encourage the use of deadly force and ostracized him for revealing its behavior.Sgt. Tim Colomey, who spent 11 years as a SWAT supervisor until last November, filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging retaliation for revealing that a group of veteran officers controlled the tactical unit’s operations and membership and punished him and others for speaking out.Colomey said in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement An unsigned letter circulated among the Los Angeles Police Department rank and file last week, encouraging officers to call in sick to protect their own interests.It had been a month of upheaval for police, with unprecedented protests over police killings of Black people and the Los Angeles City Council amid calls for sweeping reforms.“They succeeded in defunding the police; what do you think is next? Our pay? Our benefits? Our pensions? You’re God Damn right all those things are in jeopardy now,” read the letter, which was obtained...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement An unsigned letter circulated among the Los Angeles Police Department rank and file last week, encouraging officers to call in sick to protect their own interests.It had been a month of upheaval for police, with unprecedented protests over police killings of Black people and the Los Angeles City Council amid calls for sweeping reforms.“They succeeded in defunding the police; what do you think is next? Our pay? Our benefits? Our pensions? You’re God Damn right all those things are in jeopardy now,” read the letter, which was obtained...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Nearly half of all deaths related to COVID-19 in California are linked to elder care facilities, a data analysis by the Los Angeles Times has found, with the state releasing new data suggesting that there have been many more outbreaks than previously disclosed. At least 1,276 people have died after being infected with the coronavirus in skilled nursing or assisted living facilities in California, accounting for more than 49% of total fatalities reported by the state. The deaths are part of state data showing that at least 387 skilled...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Nearly half of all deaths related to COVID-19 in California are linked to elder care facilities, a data analysis by the Los Angeles Times has found, with the state releasing new data suggesting that there have been many more outbreaks than previously disclosed. At least 1,276 people have died after being infected with the coronavirus in skilled nursing or assisted living facilities in California, accounting for more than 49% of total fatalities reported by the state. The deaths are part of state data showing that at least 387 skilled...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement After assessing the hilly terrain around a Sunland house where a homeless man had holed up one morning in May 2017, the Los Angeles Police Department’s heavily armed SWAT team requested more firepower — and got it in the form of a helicopter equipped for “aerial shooting,” dubbed “Sniper-1.”By the time they’d left the scene hours later, the team had fired more than 40 rounds at 29-year-old Anthony Soderberg, including more than a dozen from the helicopter — a first in LAPD history. Many of the rounds were fired from hundreds of feet...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement After assessing the hilly terrain around a Sunland house where a homeless man had holed up one morning in May 2017, the Los Angeles Police Department’s heavily armed SWAT team requested more firepower — and got it in the form of a helicopter equipped for “aerial shooting,” dubbed “Sniper-1.”By the time they’d left the scene hours later, the team had fired more than 40 rounds at 29-year-old Anthony Soderberg, including more than a dozen from the helicopter — a first in LAPD history. Many of the rounds were fired from hundreds of feet...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement /A protester dances on top of Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a demonstration by members of Refuse Fascism who are calling an end to the Trump administration on June 20, 2020.  /Deborah Jay Winams cries after singing a song at a Black Lives Matter Los Angeles rally to call for justice in the fatal shooting of Kenneth Ross Jr. by Gardena police in 2018.   /People participate in the All Black Lives Matter march in West Hollywood on Sunday, June 14. Thousands of demonstrators marched for racial justice...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement /A protester dances on top of Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a demonstration by members of Refuse Fascism who are calling an end to the Trump administration on June 20, 2020.  /Deborah Jay Winams cries after singing a song at a Black Lives Matter Los Angeles rally to call for justice in the fatal shooting of Kenneth Ross Jr. by Gardena police in 2018.   /People participate in the All Black Lives Matter march in West Hollywood on Sunday, June 14. Thousands of demonstrators marched for racial justice...WW…

He felt their gaze on his back as soon as he stepped out of the car. As he recalls that day, Bernard Robins says he saw three Los Angeles police officers eyeing him suspiciously from their department cruiser. He knew what to do in these situations. Arms in the air. No sudden movements. And, taking the bass out of his voice, he announced that he was one of their own, a cop. Still, out came the handcuffs.The encounter wouldn’t have looked out of place in many neighborhoods south of the Santa Monica Freeway, where Black and Latino residents have long complained of being stopped by police, made...…He felt their gaze on his back as soon as he stepped out of the car. As he recalls that day, Bernard Robins says he saw three Los Angeles police officers eyeing him suspiciously from their department cruiser. He knew what to do in these situations. Arms in the air. No sudden movements. And, taking the bass out of his voice, he announced that he was one of their own, a cop. Still, out came the handcuffs.The encounter wouldn’t have looked out of place in many neighborhoods south of the Santa Monica Freeway, where Black and Latino residents have long complained of being stopped by police, made...WW…