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sahra

2 years

Hard to believe it's been three years. When #NipseyHussle passed, so much of L.A. north of the 10 was mystified over the intensity of the outpouring of grief in South Central. This story explains how that was by design.🏁 From the archives:

Nipsey Hussle Understood Cities Better than You. Why Didn't You Know Who He Was? - Streetsblog Los...

"I swore to tell the world if I made it out/The truth about these L.A. streets and all what they about"

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2 years

The worker struggling to refill soaps in the LAX bathroom said she just wished architects and designers consulted with the workers that had to maintain the spaces about whether their form would actually be functional.

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I beg you: Stop saying Daunte was pulled over for air fresheners. It was a pretextual stop pure & simple. The goal was to check his mobility, get him in the system if he wasn't already in it &/or trip him up on something bigger. Saying it was over 🌲 erases the active profiling.

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*specifically the automatic dispensers that look like faucets were too close to the wall so she had to twist and crush the large plastic bottles in order to be able to angle them properly as she refilled the dispenser. It was like watching a wrestling match.

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She was super-conscientious and really worked to make sure she emptied every last drop of soap from the refill bottles into the dispenser. But what a ridiculous thing to put a worker through multiple times daily.

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Also a duck that sound annoyed AF was quacking from a nearby stall while I spoke to her. But I do not believe the duck was responsible for this state of affairs.

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@sahrasulaiman

2 years

No, for those that have asked, I cannot explain the quacking, but I can confirm it did not involve drugs on my part.

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3 years

this is the most bizarre segment. she seems really annoyed to have to address concerns about the affected community or question the decision making by LAPD. both anchors in the studio actually ask her to probe deeper w/ regard to procedures and she waters down the questions.

KCAL News

@kcalnews

3 years

WATCH: LAPD official says some residents didn't answer their doors when officers went door-to-door evacuating the neighborhood prior to the fireworks detonation. Some of those people were then injured in the ensuing explosion.

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3 years

A year ago, a councilmember co-authored a motion to shift $150mil from LAPD's budget. A month ago, LAPD called everyone but his office to watch them detonate fireworks in his district. The explosion rocked the city.

Anatomy of an Officer-Involved Explosion: a Post-Mortem on LAPD's E. 27th Street Fireworks Blast -...

A year ago, a councilmember co-authored a motion to shift $150mil from LAPD's budget. A month ago, LAPD called everyone but his office to watch them detonate fireworks in his district. The botched...

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3 years

it's like he invented a printer that only prints one word per page

Mick Akers

@mickakers

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Footage of what it looks like when a @Tesla is traveling through the @boringcompany ’s Convention Center Loop. #vegas #boringcompany

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2 years

Tennessee is about to become the first state to make it a *felony* to camp on public property, punishable by up to *six years* in prison and the loss of voting rights.

With public camping a felony, Tennessee homeless seek refuge

Tennessee is about to become the first U.S. state to make it a felony to camp on local public property such as parks.

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Genuinely did not expect more than ten fellow nerds to see this. Fascinating to see all the things folks are frustrated with. Thanks for sharing! And may LAX do better by their workers. 🙏🏽

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Rapper Feezy was sitting in his car on Crenshaw when @LASDHQ pulled up & threatened to shoot him in the chest: "Guess what, bro...if you pull some bullshit, you're gonna take one to the chest." "So you gonna shoot me right now, bro?" "Absolutely. If you don't listen you're done."

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1 year

De-escalation training is often proposed after traffic stops where deadly force is threatened/deployed. But that assumes the subject did the escalating. Feezy Lebron's recording of Dep. Justin Sabatine taunting him at the station helps show escalation is a deliberate tactic by 👮‍♂️

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@sahrasulaiman

1 year

Rapper Feezy was sitting in his car on Crenshaw when @LASDHQ pulled up & threatened to shoot him in the chest: "Guess what, bro...if you pull some bullshit, you're gonna take one to the chest." "So you gonna shoot me right now, bro?" "Absolutely. If you don't listen you're done."

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3 years

People are getting better at not accepting other coded police narratives that frame how we think about encounters. And yet there is a tendency to let police define an obvious proactive pretextual stop as a routine traffic-related one.

sahra

@sahrasulaiman

3 years

I beg you: Stop saying Daunte was pulled over for air fresheners. It was a pretextual stop pure & simple. The goal was to check his mobility, get him in the system if he wasn't already in it &/or trip him up on something bigger. Saying it was over 🌲 erases the active profiling.

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2 years

*for the curious, the sink issues are recent - part of the suite of upgrades to Terminal 2 over the last few years. The worker said she preferred the older configurations in the areas that hadn't been upgraded yet.

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3 years

The "I'm not vaccinated, please step back" claim is a rather interesting one, as it suggests that, in doing so, the deputy has effectively rendered himself unable to perform basic duties...e.g. offer folks assistance, cite or arrest folks, or transport people in his vehicle.

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@AdamOfTheSmiths

3 years

Is it a homeless outreach method for the deputies that are part of LA Sheriff’s Homeless OUTREACH Services Team (HOST) to tell civilians to back away from him because he, the deputy, is unvaccinated???? Seems like a weird outreach method. 🥴🤡

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3 years

Welcome to Perth Amboy, where you have to provide proof you didn't steal everything in your possession.

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L.A.'s been erupting for three hours straight and yet there's still less damage than what LAPD managed to do when it detonated those 10lbs of explosives on E. 27th St.

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3 years

Kids rolling 30-40 deep on their bikes in Perth Amboy, NJ got chased at high speeds by several police cars til a few of them got cornered on a quiet street. One older👮 gives them a talking to and tells them to be safe. And it seems like they'll be let go. They even clap for him.

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@sahrasulaiman

2 years

"the officer's boot then hit that man's face" sure is one way to put it, CBS

Film The Police LA

@FilmThePoliceLA

2 years

Hollywood cop stepping on a Black man’s head was at the top of the news tonight. Great interview @genxraisingenz .

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sahra

@sahrasulaiman

3 years

As Jonathan Capehart notes below, this doesn't cut it either. And he was *told* it was about air fresheners, which helps explain his confusion and panic when this minor thing suddenly escalates to more 🚓 showing up and him being put in cuffs.

Jonathan Capehart

@CapehartJ

3 years

Wait....Wright was stopped bc of an expired tag. Questioner asks the police chief if he was aware of a months-long backlog in getting new license tags. He said he was and said he told his police officers. So, then, um.....

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@sahrasulaiman

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LAPD Sgt. Brett Hayhoe (in SUV) told investigators he opened fire when Jermaine Petit locked eyes w/ him & assumed a shooting stance in a kill/be-killed scenario. But Petit was unarmed, never paused & was shot 3secs after breaking into a full run. [Image freezes b4 Petit is hit.]

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2 years

Hello I'd like to report a local police department that overstuffed a total containment vehicle w/ fireworks, blew up a Black & brown neighborhood, tried to blame it on the fireworks vendor they'd arrested hours earlier, and ultimately caused the deaths of two elderly residents.

ATF HQ

@ATFHQ

2 years

Valentine's Day can still be fun even if you broke up. Do you have information about a former (or current) partner involved in illegal gun activity? Let us know, and we will make sure it's a Valentine's Day to remember! Call 1-888-ATF-TIPS or email ATFTips @atf .gov.

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2 years

what focus group told him this was the best response

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@sahrasulaiman

4 years

Imagine thinking this tweet about a widely beloved and respected reporter whose press credentials are seen swinging from her neck and whose phone sheriffs are seen smashing on camera was a good idea.

LA County Sheriffs

@LASDHQ

4 years

(3/3) The female adult, who was later identified as a member of the press, did not identify herself as press and later admitted she did not have proper press credentials on her person. Both individuals have been arrested for 148 P.C.

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when you wear a "Camp Auschwitz" sweatshirt it is because you absolutely want to be judged by your cover

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@ryanjreilly

2 years

The sister of Robert Packer — the Jan. 6 rioter wearing a "CAMP AUSCHWITZ" sweatshirt when he stormed the U.S. Capitol — is asking a judge to show leniency, writing that it is "easy to judge a book by it’s cover." She concedes his sweatshirt "could be considered in poor taste."

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3 years

Once again, 🗣️ Arturo Ceja did not have anything to do with the fireworks explosion. It was the good people of the El Ay Pee Dee who overstuffed the bomb ball and blew 27th Street to smithereens.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

3 years

Man arrested in South L.A. fireworks explosion is set to plead guilty, feds say

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

Then they arrest the young man in red. One officer suggests it was b/c he was being disrespectful. He was annoyed his bike was being taken when he lived in another town. But being annoyed is not an arrestable offense, last I checked.

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2 years

An @LAPDHQ Sergeant swooping in and *shooting out the window of his car while still driving with one hand* at a Black man the officers on foot already knew was unarmed feels like it should be a much bigger story. #JermainePetit

LAPD Sergeant Fired at Jermaine Petit from Inside Patrol Vehicle, Sparking Contagious Fire from...

Despite having been advised by his partner officer that 39-year-old Jermaine Petit was not carrying a gun, officer Daryl Glover Jr. raised his arms and fired at least one shot at Petit's back anyways.

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3 years

She doesn't want to be doing this, she says. It's "Asinine. Like we have so much better stuff to do with our time," says the lady who was part of a multi-unit contingent that *insisted* on arresting the youth in red b/c she found him disrespectful.

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One of the more striking things about this - at least on this hellsite - was how quick the blame was placed on the shoulders of unhoused folks and not the extent to which freeways create spaces that invite neglect, mismanagement, and disrepair.

Caltrans District 7

@CaltransDist7

6 months

Interstate 10 is closed in both directions in downtown LA between Alameda St. & East LA interchange. Caltrans is assessing damage from a fire under I-10 & will reopen I-10 as soon as possible. In the meantime, use other routes! Here’s a peek under the freeway.

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@sahrasulaiman

4 years

SEEMS LEGIT

Brittny Mejia

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4 years

These two said they came out to support fair elections. Declined to give names, one of them said whether Biden or Trump wins he just wants it to be fair. #Election2020

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

And yes, for all those concerned: He's free.

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3 years

Then she says she could be a real asshole and confiscate the other youths' bikes that are not registered. Perth Amboy requires they be registered. But, contrary to her first charge, they also prohibit riding on sidewalks in many places around town so...

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

are we really still speaking about the devices as if they blew up on their own?

ABC7 Eyewitness News

@ABC7

3 years

A man has been charged with illegally transporting tons of explosives he purchased in Nevada - including several that left a trail of destruction and injuries after they blew up in South L.A.

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3 years

George Holliday, the plumber who filmed the beating of Rodney King, has died. He was 61. Incredible to think about how differently events would have played out if dispatchers hadn't hung up on him.

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2 years

Police asking landlords to help subsidize rent for police recruits was not on my housing twitter bingo card

Police to Ask Help from Landlords

The Los Angeles Police Department is having such a difficult time attracting recruits that leaders plan to seek help from the business community. Specifically, L.A.’s landlords will be asked to...

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@sahrasulaiman

1 year

Wild to see the LAPD labeled as an "anti-police group"

Lillian L. Carranza🇺🇸

@LAPDCARRANZA

1 year

Anti-police group leaks information about 300 officers #LAPD

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@sahrasulaiman

1 year

A little bit of context. This is LADOT and KDI claiming this structure is an innovative response to gender-specific concerns about safety and comfort at bus stops.

StreetsblogLA

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At press event for new @LADOTofficial @cd1losangeles bus stop shade/light structure “la sombrita” at 3rd & Union

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3 years

🗣️ for the ppl in the front: Arturo Ceja did not have any link to the blast. LAPD chose to set off a blast to show how well their expensive toys worked. It's one of several ways they've pushed back against the defund movement. This one just...backfired.

NBC Los Angeles

@NBCLA

3 years

South LA Man Linked to Massive Fireworks Blast Granted Bond

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It remains infuriating that the LAT continues to misrepresent KDL's role in the tapes. He wasn't a bystander who failed to rein Nury in. He & his resentments were the prime drivers of the convo abt Bonin & the claim that Black ppl were out to get Latinos.

Kevin de León says he deserves another chance. Critics say he’s ‘gaslighting’ L.A.

Kevin de León is the last one standing after an audio leak caught him in a conversation that featured racist and derogatory remarks. Now he's running for reelection.

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3 years

i dunno...pushing another officer out of way explicitly in order to escalate the encounter? having been in such a panic at having to deal w/ a Black youth that she reached for a weapon, waved it around in front of her own face for 7 secs, and still didn't realize it was a gun?

Richard Marx

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Officer Potter was clearly grossly and deadly incompetent. But is there evidence I’m not seeing that implies she had a history of racism?

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61yo Earl Roots was shocked to learn anyone knew this had happened to him. He was even more shocked to learn @LAPDChiefMoore told the @lapdcommission he had been hospitalized "due to a complaint of having asthma."

LAPD Officer Punched 60-year-old Black Man in Chest, Collapsing His Lung, during December Arrest -...

In an apparent effort to downgrade the incident to a non-categorical use of force, Chief Moore told the Police Commission that Earl Roots' hospitalization was "due to a complaint of having asthma,"...

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A police officer in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, who had shot and killed three people during his tenure resigned last year. Monday, he was sworn in as a deputy sheriff just across the county line in Waukesha.

Police Officer Who Resigned After Fatal Shootings Is Hired as Sheriff’s Deputy (Published 2021)

Protests erupted in Wisconsin after the officer, Joseph Mensah, killed a teenager in February — his third fatal shooting in five years. He resigned but was sworn in on Monday as a deputy in a nearby...

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

I'm just going to collect these in a thread now. Ceja was not the one who detonated the fireworks. Also notable: the downplaying of the fact that LAPD injured 10 of their own. Had Ceja been the one to do that, it would be the focus of the story.

KCAL News

@kcalnews

3 years

UPATE: Arturo Ceja III, 26, charged in connection to massive South LA fireworks explosion that injured 17 and displaced many residents in the blast zone, is set to appear in federal court Tuesday.

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She insists it is for their safety and that they need to stay on the correct side of the road. Kudos to Christian Orozco's editing skills here...he drops in a shot of them riding on the correct side of the road.

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

April 7, Dre Hollingsworth, a deaf woman, was pulled over in Vegas. Officers made her 11yo daughters do the interpretation. Then they *cuffed* DH - leaving her unable to communicate - and questioned the girls about why their mom was seeking $ she was owed.

Caroline Blaike

Video with captions. The North Las Vegas Police choose not to call an interpreter on the scene, but instead traumatize and use her 11 year old daughter to communicate. Drizzy Breezy is Deaf and...

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@sahrasulaiman

4 years

Folks know that the mayor's son was involved in the horrific beating of 22yo Clinton Alford back when he was LAPD, right?

acatwithnews

@ACatWithNews

4 years

Here’s the Mayor of Pasadena taking down the vigil of Anthony McClain along with his wife. Personally. She also kicked the flowers. Under his watch as mayor, Pasadena Police murdered him during a traffic stop. #pasadena #blm #justiceforanthonymcclain #laprotest @blmpasadena

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@sahrasulaiman

2 years

You could have said, "Please just drive safely and respect others this holiday season." But I guess "honk and you will die" sounded more christmasy.

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

but the other question that the anchors asked is one I have as a non-bomb tech: could the volatile material have been split up before detonation? did LAPD have a good enough understanding of what they were dealing with? all joy tells us is that the vehicle was eXpEnsIVe.

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@sahrasulaiman

10 months

This department's shameless mendacity is truly extraordinary: "LAPD initially told us on Friday the officers were in distress, but now say that was not the case."

ABC7 Eyewitness News

@ABC7

10 months

UPDATE: We followed up on this story, and the LAPD spokesperson now says the officers were evaluated at the hospital only as a precaution after meth was recovered at the scene. More details:

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3 years

See the full vid here. The chase begins around the 5:50 mark. The idea that police deploy the option to confiscate unregistered bikes from/arrest kids riding *through* their wee town is wild. Find Christian Orozco's tik tok: @/blazedzero_

4 Bikes Taken By Cops, 1 Arrested

Discord link: https://discord.gg/jBYw2mCB7W

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

the fact that this design provides the least shade for the fewest people during the hottest months and hours of the year would seem to be a problem.

Metro Los Angeles

@metrolosangeles

3 years

Check out a bus shelter demo with @BSSLosAngeles and give them your feedback on what features you would like to see.

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And who should appear in the story to speak truth to power but an 18-year-old @ava DuVernay - then a UCLA film student - who knew what was what and was never afraid to say so.

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@sahrasulaiman

5 years

At city council this Friday, councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson ( @mhdcd8 ) plans to introduce a motion to rename the intersection at Crenshaw and Slauson "Ermias Nipsey Hussle Asghedom Square"...

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@sahrasulaiman

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Someone just asked me how that f*ckin boot tasted, which makes me think perhaps these tweets are not as clear as I think they are. I'm attaching the longer thread I did here in case it is helpful in explaining what I mean...

sahra

@sahrasulaiman

3 years

People are getting better at not accepting other coded police narratives that frame how we think about encounters. And yet there is a tendency to let police define an obvious proactive pretextual stop as a routine traffic-related one.

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young man shot in the back while at work, witnesses said

L.A. Times: L.A. Now

@LANow

4 years

Gardena man fatally shot by deputy was armed with an illegal handgun, sheriff says

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@sahrasulaiman

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It's like LAPD took that report on its protest failures as a personal challenge to make things even worse

Katie

@katieb1013

3 years

Every single legal observer was arrested. Pls call @NLG_LosAngeles @NLGnews 310-975-4996

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3 years

I am disappointed in myself for having looked at that 1776 doc. But I did appreciate the guffaw I got out of the idea that we'd have a kindler, gentler society if women & BIPOC folks had just been satisfied w/ having rights in theory and not demanded rights in practice.

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Feezy says "it happens all the time" but he wants to shed light on how easily he could have been killed for just sitting in his vehicle, minding his own business. They just opened his door and pointed guns at him, per his tiktok.

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Narrator: Law enforcement was in fact *not* defunded on Metro in 2021; instead Metro extended the policing contract while also approving an additional ~$110mil to cover transit policing cost overruns.

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If a sheriff has no fear of raiding elected officials' homes on the flimsiest of grounds in full view of the media, then you can only begin to imagine the kind of intimidation the families of those killed by LASD might be subjected to for speaking up.

Families of Those Killed by LASD Describe Ongoing Harassment by Deputies as Part of a "Triple...

"I don't have another life to give. I don't have any more breaths to take. I don't have any more hashtags. I don't have any more energy to be marching with my fist up in the air [only] to come back...

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No charges. It's upsetting to see the story mention noise cancelling ear buds given that the officer only used his lights, not his sirens. This was the incident in which another officer's body cam captured him joking about what her life was worth.

Seattle police officer who hit, killed grad student in crosswalk will not face charges

No charges will be filed against the Seattle police officer who struck and killed a 23-year-old woman in a South Lake Union crosswalk on Jan. 23, 2023.

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

first, anyone who has door-knocked in the community knows folks don't often answer their doors for a lot of good reasons. so you sometimes have to shout your org. and purpose. was that done here? what were folks told? how big was the evacuation radius?

Desmond Shaw

@RoadSageLA

3 years

Shocking new detail on today’s fireworks detonation gone awry: LAPD thinks the top of that armored container device flew TWO BLOCKS to the East, smashing part of a roof before hitting the dirt. The top of that device reportedly weights as much as one TON (center of pic) @CBSLA

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Trying to understand the logic of saying "we expect police to do all these jobs they're not suited for... so the solution is to have even more police doing the jobs they are not suited for."

CBS News

@CBSNews

2 years

The Safer American Plan, aimed at reducing gun crime, is based on a "simple notion," says Pres. Biden: "The answer is not to defund the police; it's fund the police." He adds, "We expect them to do everything...to protect us, to be psychologists, to be sociologists."

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This was one of the wildest videos I'd ever seen - first this dude cuts someone off, then he brake checks them, and then he...blasts them with several rounds of gunfire after they threw a water bottle at his car. Florida ruled he was standing his ground.

Charges Dropped Against Driver Who Opened Fire on I-95 in Miami

The driver's attorney said that Florida's Stand Your Ground Law ensured his client's actions were reasonable self-defense.

jalopnik.com

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@sahrasulaiman

4 years

Part of addressing race in media involves things like being more cognizant of who you mean when you say "everyone."

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@sahrasulaiman

1 year

Any journo who's paid even a minimum of attention to council knows exactly who Jason Reedy is. So why was it more important to broadcast disdain for him instead of for the person he was protesting: namely, KDL, the man who mocked a Black toddler as an accessory?

Robin Abcarian

@AbcarianLAT

1 year

Who takes a baby to such a raucous loud mess?

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

There may be no better argument for having trained unarmed crisis responders showing up to calls for folks in distress than what the footage from Isaias Cervantes' case shows us.

KCAL News

@kcalnews

3 years

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department today released body camera video from the March 31 shooting of Isaias Cervantes by a deputy in Cudahy

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@sahrasulaiman

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It's traffic safety awareness month, so @LAPDHQ has put out a PSA funded by @StateFarm ...admonishing a pedestrian for getting hit by an SUV driver who ran a red light. "Your loved ones are counting on you to make it home safely. Keep your head up & look at what you're missing."🤨

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@sahrasulaiman

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Tavis Smiley: My point is that you're not in the room...you're not voting on the issues that matter to your constituents. So when you say that your constituents will be left w/out a voice if you aren't there... You ain't there now. KDL: I'm trying allow some time to heal.

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@sahrasulaiman

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A story that should have gotten *way* more attention this year: The lengths LAPD went to to shield Sgt Brett Hayhoe, who swooped in and shot Jermaine Petit, an unarmed Black man, from inside his patrol vehicle while driving w/ one hand. That story ➡️

LAPD Sergeant Fired at Jermaine Petit from Inside Patrol Vehicle, Sparking Contagious Fire from...

Despite having been advised by his partner officer that 39-year-old Jermaine Petit was not carrying a gun, officer Daryl Glover Jr. raised his arms and fired at least one shot at Petit's back anyways.

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sahra

@sahrasulaiman

2 years

Sgt. Brett Hayhoe's arm/gun can be seen reflected in the console in the body cam footage released by @LAPDHQ (I've zoomed in here, but video is otherwise unaltered by me; there is no audio and it is not graphic). At least one shot is fired at 19:33:47. See the 🧵 for more:

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@sahrasulaiman

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wild AF to see explosive devices casually lobbed at an anti-war encampment this way

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Another firework in the camp

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This explains so much more about the NYT than anything going on in campus culture.

Peter Baker

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2 months

So proud of ⁦ @tab_delete ⁩ for this incredibly powerful, deeply reported and thought provoking piece on Stanford's war over the Gaza war. This is what Ben Bradlee used to call a "holy shit" story from its stunning lead to its head-snapping conclusion.

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This has huge implications: People can't be detained just for trying to avoid police, California Supreme Court says

People can't be detained just for trying to avoid police, California Supreme Court says

Police officers cannot detain someone on the street just because that person acts furtively to avoid contact with them, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

www.latimes.com

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@sahrasulaiman

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I did a whole breakdown of how the LAPD succeeded in getting outlets to adopt that framing. I invite the @latimes to read it.

Anatomy of an Officer-Involved Explosion: a Post-Mortem on LAPD's E. 27th Street Fireworks Blast -...

A year ago, a councilmember co-authored a motion to shift $150mil from LAPD's budget. A month ago, LAPD called everyone but his office to watch them detonate fireworks in his district. The botched...

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@sahrasulaiman

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LAPD kicked off their "town hall" on the shooting of vet Jermaine Petit in Leimert Park by lambasting the media for putting misinformation out there, and then proceeded to call the car part Petit was holding a "nonfunctioning firearm."

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@sahrasulaiman

2 years

Astonishing to hear @lapdhq claim "there was some bad info. that was put out - that the suspect was unarmed" (b/c the 911 caller thought Petit was armed, meaning LAPD doesn't have to determine whether he was armed) and call the latch actuator a potential "nonfunctioning firearm."

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@sahrasulaiman

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It's beyond shameful that white-led media has wasted half a decade asking this question. O'Donnell is so solemn here, as if she's asking something profound, when all she is doing is setting up Harris to be labeled as "polarizing" for naming a verifiable fact.

60 Minutes

@60Minutes

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Does Kamala Harris think President Trump is racist? “Yes, I do. You can look at a pattern that goes back to him questioning the identity of the first Black president of the United States.”

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Maybe it's b/c the Oscar noms came out today, but I can't stop thinking about how less than a decade ago, Spotlight was lauded for showing both the work that went into journalism and why teams of reporters and local newsrooms mattered.

David Folkenflik

@davidfolkenflik

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LATimes confirms 115 journalists laid off, or about 23 percent; newsroom will be at approx 385. NOTE: Taken in combination with last year's layoffs, the Los Angeles Times has laid off about one third of its newsroom in less than a year.

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The thing I remain struck by is the amount of effort that went into making this a press event. This was supposed to be an easy win for LAPD - a way to prove their worth & push back against defund/reform efforts. What role did that play? Joy won't tell us.

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

It really feels like - hear me out on this - more effort went into ensuring all the press would be there than taking every precaution to ensure the container vessel could actually do the proper containing.

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

L.A. mayoral race sounding like a villain origin story

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@sahrasulaiman

6 months

This story is wild, but the big question I'm left with is if the reason the men were not listened to was because they were day laborers.

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@sahrasulaiman

1 year

"Parents" is such a loaded, coded word.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

1 year

Police stood watch outside a North Hollywood elementary school Friday morning as a group of parents protested a Pride Day assembly, bringing to a head weeks of turmoil that saw a transgender teacher’s LGBTQ Pride flag burned.

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@sahrasulaiman

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The full audio of the meeting has been posted by @KnockDotLA . I'm three min in and Nury is asking who's to say Huizar wasn't taking bribes to feed his kids...

LA City Council Members Racist Rant on Redistricting

LA City Council members Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo, Kevin De Leon and LA Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera embark on a racist rant while planning red...

www.youtube.com

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@sahrasulaiman

4 years

Josie Huang from KPCC likely would have reported this so you wouldn't have had to tweet it yourself but five deputies tackled her to the ground on live TV instead.

LA County Sheriffs

@LASDHQ

4 years

To the protesters blocking the entrance & exit of the HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM yelling "We hope they die" referring to 2 LA Sheriff's ambushed today in #Compton : DO NOT BLOCK EMERGENCY ENTRIES & EXITS TO THE HOSPITAL. People's lives are at stake when ambulances can't get through.

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Unreal. CPD says the 👮 “confronted a subject that began shooting a firearm.” The BWC shows the 👮 heard shots & fired through the wooden fence w/out being able to see who he was firing at, and THEN announced "Police!" The family was celebrating NYE.

GRAPHIC: Video shows Ohio officer fatally shoot man who was firing gun on New Year’s Day

Ohio police have released body camera video that shows a fatal officer-involved shooting that happened just after midnight on New Year’s Day.

www.wtap.com

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@sahrasulaiman

3 years

There's much to take apart here, but the framing is the crime. The police union was already blaming the rise in homicides on the nominal defunding effort before it had even taken effect.

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

A year after the murder of George Floyd, Los Angeles and other American cities are facing a surge in violent crime, forcing cities whose leaders embraced the idea of police reform to reassess how far they are willing to go to reimagine public safety.

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@sahrasulaiman

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Then she says, "You guys know that you're going against traffic." Which they actually were not. They were going with traffic. Were they a little reckless? At times. Did she actually see that? Unclear. But they were largely riding with traffic, taking the lane(s).

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@sahrasulaiman

2 years

This happened five hours ago, but LAPD has yet to put out a statement/social media post on the incident

Another Adam Smith

@AdamOfTheSmiths

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The LAPD has shot 6 and killed at least 5 since last Saturday. Jesus Christ.

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@sahrasulaiman

4 years

i'm sorry, what

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@sewellchan

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@elongreen Read the damn letters. We fact checked all of them; no falsehoods being propagated. After four years of condemning Trump, we can’t listen to Trump voters for a day?

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@sahrasulaiman

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Also, I don't know why @CBSLA reported above that Ceja was arrested after the explosion. He was arrested at 1:25pm and booked before 4pm at 77th St....a few hours before LAPD's detonation.

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@sahrasulaiman

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@LettersOfNote my 7yo niece telling her 5yo brother she doesn't think she can stop bullying him but that she loves him with all of her heart

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@sahrasulaiman

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Patrice Cullors takes specific aim at newly elected CM Traci Park as she speaks on the loss of her cousin Keenan Anderson, who died after being tased, cuffed, and hobbled by LAPD after a traffic collision in Park's district.

Josh Pacheco (They/Them)

@JP_OTG

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“You ran on a pro cop, anti-BLM, anti-black platform and in the first days of the year, your rhetoric allowed for the killing my cousin.” -Patrisse Cullors

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Somewhat 🥴 to be scooped by @liborjany @brittny_mejia and @LAcrimes after working on my own set of stories about this for months, but so glad to see these folks' names finally out there. There's so much more to say about them...

LAPD refused to ID officers behind a huge fireworks explosion. Now we have their names

The LAPD destroyed much of a South L.A. neighborhood, but would not identify the officers involved. Through investigative records, court documents and interviews, The Times was able to figure them...

www.latimes.com

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@sahrasulaiman

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This (re the 110) is a bit oversimplified. The 110 was constructed as the Black pop. was experiencing rapid growth in South LA (which was still largely white then) and was spilling beyond the borders of redlined zones. It was more about containment/division than displacement. 1/

Segregation_by_Design

@SegByDesign

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"Across Southern CA, freeways that paved over Black and Latino neighborhoods—such as the 5, 10 & 110—were completed, while those proposed to cross whiter, more affluent areas were stopped," writes @latimes . The 110, seen here, cut through South LA, displacing tens of thousands.

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It also has a light which makes the stop safer at night. Which, again, OK. But shade and lighting are not gender-specific requests. So LADOT framing this as such is a bit icky. Also... first of its kind?

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@sahrasulaiman

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We ( @bencamach0 & @sh4keer ) won the suit to get footage from LAPD. I'm still combing thru it, but am struck by the practice of turning off cams when the 👮‍♂️ who opened fire gives his first public safety statement to the force investigator. Here they are reminded to turn cams off.

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@sahrasulaiman

2 years

The bill adds local public property (local parks, etc.) to the existing law, which prohibits camping on state property. You will be shocked, shocked, I say, to learn the bill is rooted in the effort to squash protests calling for racial justice reform.

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@sahrasulaiman

10 months

the way they reject the idea that the unhoused people on their streets were members of their community.... whew

Westside For Everyone

@WestsideForEv

10 months

Okay, here are the clips. Katy Young Yaroslavsky accurately describes the problem, crowd shouts her down when she says many unhoused people used to be housed in our community, Rabbi (?) tries to calm people down and reminds people it’s a house of worship, crowd jeers

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@sahrasulaiman

4 years

One of the most difficult things to convince urbanists of is of the need to decenter whiteness - part of which entails decentering a perspective that takes unfettered access to the public space for granted.

World News Tonight

@ABCWorldNews

4 years

NEW: Authorities in Tulsa, Oklahoma, are investigating the arrest of two black teenagers accused of jaywalking, with video from an eyewitness showing one officer forcibly pulling a teen out of a patrol car and onto the ground. More tonight.

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