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20 Years After the Riots: A More Worldly Los Angeles, a More Insular Los Angeles Times

Peter Hong | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Los Angeles Times, Minority Journalists, La Riots, La Riots 20 Year Anniversary, Lapd, Los Angeles Times Diversity, Los Angeles News
Peter Hong

The news stories marking the 20th anniversary of the riots have given L.A. a well-deserved pat on the back. But journalists haven't explored how one vital sector of L.A. may be less able to handle the city's racial complexities than it was 20 years ago.

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WATCH: LA Riots Told Through Shocking Videos

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Rodney King Riots, La Riots, LA Police Brutality, Rodney King Speech, Rodney King Anniversary, Police Brutality, Rodney King Video, 1992 LA Riots, Rodney King, Lapd, Rodney King Riots Videos, Video, LA Riots Videos, Riots Videos, Slidepollajax, LA Police, Los Angeles News

Twenty years later, the Rodney King LA riot videos are just as shocking as they were in 1992. Through a then-groundbreaking but soon-to-become regu...

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Twenty Years After the Flames: Vigilance Is Still the Watchword With the LAPD - Part 2

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Stacey Koon, Rodney King Beating, Lapd Shooting, Rodney King La Riots, L.A. Riots, LAPD Police Chief, Simi Vallry, Lapd, Los Angeles News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

One of the lowest moments for the LAPD came when Sergeant Stacey Koon publicly defended the use of force against Rodney King. While the LAPD has clearly changed, there are still some troubling signs that more needs to be done.

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Twenty Years After the Flames: The Rodney King Beating Verdict and the L.A. Riots Part 1

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Los Angeles Riots, Racism, 20th Anniversary L.A. Riots, Race Iots, Los Angeles, Lapd, LA Riots Anniversary, State of Black America, South LA, Obama 2012, La History, Rodney King, Los Angeles News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

This year, on the 20th anniversary of the King verdict and the L.A. riots, many still ask the incessant question: Can it happen again?

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USC Shooting: Residents Defend Neighborhood

Neon Tommy | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Usc Shootings, Neon Tommy, Usc, Student Shooting, University of Southern California, Usc Students, Lapd, LA News, LA Crime, College News
Neon Tommy

At the intersection of 27th Street and Raymond Avenue, two USC graduate students were killed Wednesday morning after a possible carjacking, leaving residents horrified by the news and seeking more information.

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Gunman On The Loose In Downtown LA

AP | Posted 03.09.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- Police searched an area of the garment district in Los Angeles for more than an hour on Friday after a caller reported seeing a man wit...

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Maggie Furlong

'Southland' Scoop: Which Cop Is Not Coming Back?

HuffingtonPost.com | Maggie Furlong | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Interviews, Police, Southland, Los Angeles Police Department, Drama, Lucy Liu, Lapd, TV Spoilers, Reality-Free, Southland TNT, Michael Cudlitz, Maggie Furlong, TV News

For three seasons, "Southland" fans loved watching the partner dynamics with the show's LAPD cops, but the current fourth season (Tuesdays, 10 p.m. ES...

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The Vote Is In: Will $250 Truancy Tickets Stay?

2011-04-04-tcmhuffpo.jpg | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: LAUSD Truancy Fines, Video, LA City Council, Lausd, Los Angeles Truancy Protest, $250 Truancy Fine, Tony Cardenas, Cardenas Truancy, Truancy Civil Rights, Students Protest Truancy, La Truancy Protest, Lapd, Los Angeles News

Story comes courtesy of The City Maven. By Alice M. Walton. Los Angeles students who are truant from school would not face a monetary fine unti...

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Movie Review: Woody Harrelson Makes Rampart a Must See

Carole Mallory | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Sigourney Weaver, Denzel Washington, James Ellroy, Oren Movermen, Black Dahlia, Bobby Bukowski, Robin Wright, Training Day, Rampart Scandal, Lapd, Woody Harrelson, Cythia Nixon, Ice Cube, Anne Heche, Bokowski, Entertainment News
Carole Mallory

Woody Harrelson's tour de force performance in Rampart is reminiscent of Oscar winner Denzel Washington's in Training Day.

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Should Students Pay $250 For Being Late To Class?

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Video, LAUSD Truancy Fines, Lausd, LA City Council, Los Angeles Truancy Protest, $250 Truancy Fine, Tony Cardenas, Cardenas Truancy, Truancy Civil Rights, Students Protest Truancy, La Truancy Protest, Lapd, Los Angeles News

Should students have to pay $250 for being late to class? How 'bout $800? The LA City Council Public Safety Committee thinks not and voted Monday i...

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Jordan Zakarin

Woody Harrelson's New Cop Drama Looks To Arrest Social Injustice

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Rampart, Woody Harrelson Rampart, Owen Moverman, Oren Moverman, Los Angeles Police Department, Owen Moverman Rampart, Woody Harrelson, Oren Moverman Rampart, Lapd, Oren Moverman Woody Harrleson, Video, Entertainment News

Don't let the marquee fool you: while Woody Harrelson is the star of the upcoming cop drama "Rampart," the film is just as much about the troubled soc...

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Why the RFK Assassination Case Must Be Reopened

Mikko Alanne | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Robert Kennedy Assassination, Lapd, Kamala Harris, Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan Parole, Armchair Detective, Crime News
Mikko Alanne

One need not entertain strange-sounding theories about Sirhan Sirhan acting under mind control to acknowledge that there are very serious and disquieting discrepancies in the forensic evidence of the case that must be resolved.

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Police Brutality Tells Us More About Society Than Those Who Police It

Oren Moverman | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Rampart, Brutality, Los Angeles Police Brutality, Police Brutality, Rampart Movie, Lapd Police, Lapd, Rampart Film, Entertainment News
Oren Moverman

One fall, as I was talking with the LAPD and trying to get into their heads, one white cop leaning confidently on his idled squad car took his time explaining to me that the battle for the streets of Los Angeles.

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The 99% on MLK

Sam Slovick | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street, Occupy La, Lapd, Occupy Los Angeles, Kingdom Day Parade, LA MLK Parade, Los Angeles News
Sam Slovick

Forty-eight years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson handed the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. the pen he'd just used to sign the Civil Rights Act...

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Connie Rice: 'The Conscience Of Los Angeles'

Debra Ollivier | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Connie Rice, Lapd, Martin Luther King, Power Concedes Nothing, Civil Rights, Gang Violence, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

No one but Connie Rice has ever simultaneously (and successfully) sued the Los Angeles Police Department and forged a pioneering partnership with them.

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Protester Arrest At Los Angeles Art Walk

Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Police Force, Video, Lynching, Occupy Protesters, Los Angeles Police Department, Occupy Wall Street, Los Angeles Art Walk, Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Protests, Sergio Ballesteros, Lapd, Arts News

Los Angeles' bi-weekly art walk recently got a taste of the confrontations between Occupy protesters and the LAPD. The video above begins in the m...

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Teenage Girl Attacked In Lobby: LAPD Asks For Help (VIDEO)

Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: Olympic Robbery Detectives, Video, Koreatown Robbery, Jane Santamaria, Koreatown Attack, Pico-Union Robbery, Teenage Girl Attacked, Pico-Union Attack, Lapd, Lapd Blog, Los Angeles News

The LAPD is asking for the public's help in finding a man who violently attacked 18-year-old Jane Santamaria in the lobby of her Pico-Union apartment ...

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A Rabbi's Testimony: The Repression and Elimination of OccupyLA

Rabbi Yonah Bookstein | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Occupyla, Los Angeles, Mayor Villaraigosa, Lapd, Occupy Faith, Occupy La Eviction, Occupy La Crackdown, Occupy La Clergy, Police Brutality, Occupy La Elimination, Occupy La LAPD Raid, Religion News
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein

There are many reports of the protests, violence and arrests as the final, large-scale Occupy protest in the country came to end. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to tell my story as a clergy witness to the police crackdown.

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Police Reportedly Went Undercover At Occupy LA Encampment Prior To Raid

AP/The Huffington Post | Associated Press | Posted 12.06.2011

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The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles police used nearly a dozen undercover detectives to infiltrate the Occupy LA encampment before...

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LAPD Made Sure the Whole World Ain't Watching

Ruth Fowler | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Naomi Wolf, Media, Occupy, Los Angeles, UK Media, Journalism, Lapd, Los Angeles News
Ruth Fowler

As both a journalist who occasionally freelances for the mainstream media, and an Occupier, I find myself in a conflicted position regarding reporting on Occupy LA. The flipside of this is that rarely is the mainstream media itself impartial or unbiased.

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Jason Cherkis

Occupy L.A. May Branch Out To Occupy Beverly Hills, Skid Row

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Video, Occupy Pasadena, Occupy Wall Street, Rodeo Drive, City Hall, Occupy La, Occupy Venice, Occupy Long Beach, Beverly Hills, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, Lapd, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- After a tense all-nighter with the Los Angeles Police Department, Occupy L.A. activists and their tents outside City Hall have been give...

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Is LA Making a Big Mistake by Evicting Occupy LA?

Guy Horton | Posted 01.26.2012

Read More: Occupy La, Mayor Villaraigosa, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy La Camp, Antonio Villaraigosa, Occupy La Eviction, Occupy La Shut Down, Occupy Los Angeles, Lapd, Los Angeles News
Guy Horton

After nearly two months of allowing the movement to establish their presence there, the decision to evict stands as an abrupt about-face. What happened?

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Can Civilians Arrest Cops?

Jeff Norman | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Citizen?S Arrest, Charlie Beck, Marijuana, The Atlantic, Police Brutality, Right on Red, Alexis Madrigal, UC Davis, Lapd, California Vehicle Code, John Pike, Meter Maid, Pepper Spray, Parking Enforcement Officer, Video, Politics News
Jeff Norman

On the UC Davis campus and elsewhere, relations between cops and the community are so strained that all sorts of retaliations for actual or perceived police brutality seem possible.

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PHOTOS: More Work From The Flaming Bank Painter

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Ebay, Activism, Chase, Terrorism, Bank of America, Anarchism, Occupy La, Burning Banks, Occupy, Alex Schaefer, Political Art, Lapd, Arts News

The Occupy Movement has its fair share of accidental activists, people without political backgrounds who feel a human obligation to take action. Alex ...

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PAVEMENT Occupies Los Angeles

Sam Slovick | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Oakland, Protest, Occupy La, LA Weekly, Pavement, Lapd, Los Angeles, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Los Angeles, Los Angeles News
Sam Slovick

After watching the media coverage of the Occupy LA movement I was disheartened. It was decidedly glib. I moved my tent to City Hall the morning of October 28th and set an intention to stay for the duration.

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