Category: Government

Two South Los Angeles men, one African American and the other Hispanic, were involved in officer-involed shootings last weekend that left both dead.
Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck on Tuesday released a security video of the chase leading up to the fatal police shooting of the 18-year-old Black man in South Los Angeles over the weekend.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, CBC Chairman G. K. Butterfield issued the following statement on the passing of Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Incorporated (CBCF) Fellow, Jonathan E. Riley, Esq.:

Acting on a motion by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved investing $3 million to help build a bioscience incubator on the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center campus.

A 19-year-old mentally disabled man wearing a red T- shirt and red shoes was gunned down near a South Los Angeles car wash over nothing more than “gang pride,” a prosecutor told jurors this week.
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A nationwide civil-rights organization is up in arms about a proposal that would give law enforcement agencies the power to disrupt electronic communication services during an emergency—without prior notice.

Protesters took to the streets for two consecutive evenings in South Los Angeles last weekend.
Demonstrators shut down traffic at 108th Street and Western Avenue in the Southern California locale on Saturday and Sunday nights in protest to the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Carnell Snell Jr. by Los Angeles Police.

Authorities today were trying to track down a hit-and-run driver who was behind the wheel of a older-model Saab that struck and fatally injured a man in a wheelchair in Pomona, police said today.