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Super Bill? Is the NFL Contributing to Inglewood’s Gentrification?
Large events are always promoted as an economic boost. It’s usually not the case.
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What Doesn’t Inglewood Want You to Know About Its Cops?
Police departments nationwide are hiding records of police misconduct
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City Decides to Destroy 20 Years Worth of Police Misconduct Records
May 2008, Officer Brian Ragan gunned down 19-year-old Michael Bayoune at a Rally’s in Inglewood, Calif., Bayoune was unarmed and had not made any threats but Ragan mistook the teenager for a gang member and opened fire. An internal investigation cleared Ragan of any wrongdoing. A few days later in May 2008, Ragan knocked on…
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A Community Reels After the Police Killing of 16-Year-Old Anthony ‘A.J.’ Weber in Los Angeles
There is a familiar grief ritual when a young person dies, especially from violence, especially in poor, black communities. It is communal, emotive and performative, as black people are wont to be, and much the same the world over. After news of the death spreads, people pour out of their homes to a common area—a…