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LAPD Detective Investigating Derrick Rose Rape Case Dead in Apparent Suicide
A Los Angeles Police Department detective who was investigating the rape allegations against NBA’s Derrick Rose has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities confirmed Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports. LAPD Detective Nadine Hernandez was found with a single gunshot wound to the chest Tuesday afternoon in a Whittier, Calif., home. She was…
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Protests Mount After Teen Carnell Snell Jr. Shot and Killed by LAPD
An 18-year-old was shot fatally by the Los Angeles Police Department after a foot chase that relatives said ended tragically in front of his home. The dead teen has been identified as Carnell “C.J.” Snell Jr., a young man neighbors say was into skateboards and his family, according to the Los Angeles Times. LAPD officers…
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Rodney King’s Daughter Is Working With LAPD to Bridge Gap Between Police and Citizens
Twenty-five years after Rodney King was beaten in what has become one of the most infamous cases of police brutality in history, his daughter teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday to speak to young people about interacting with police. The message? It’s more important to build bridges with officers than to…
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LAPD Creates Program to Support Families Killed by … LAPD
The Los Angeles Police Department says it will create a program to assist the families of people killed during encounters with police—the first of its kind in the nation—reports the Los Angeles Times. The program will be called the Family Liaison Program, and the LAPD said its goal is to foster better communication with loved ones…
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ProPublica Releases Video Showing in-Custody Death of Vachel Howard
ProPublica has released the video of the in-custody death of Vachel Howard that, it says, the Los Angeles Police Department didn’t want released. Howard died June 4, 2012, while in the custody of the LAPD’s 77th Street Station jail. The 56-year-old grandfather of seven had been taken into custody for driving while intoxicated and had…
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2 Fatally Shot at UCLA; Campus on Lockdown
Updated Wednesday, June 1, 3:30 p.m. EDT: Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck declared the UCLA campus safe after confirming that the shooter was one of two men killed in a small office in a building on the campus’s engineering complex, the Los Angeles Times reports. “The campus is now safe,” Beck told reporters in…
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Actress Arrested For…Kissing While Black
Keeping score, we have documented proof that the following are legal offenses: Driving while Black. Walking while Black. Waiting while Black. Going home while Black. Sitting while Black. Losing your keys while Black. Being near a White Person while Black. Now, after Daniele Watts — a young actress who made her film debut in Django…