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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
May 19, 2016 |
Federal Lawsuit To Be Filed Over LAPD Officer-Discipline Protocol
Union members will file a federal lawsuit Thursday against the city of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department and Chief Charlie Beck over the department's officer-discipline protocol. The Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) is seeking a federal court order to stop what it calls Beck's “corrupt influence” over the LAPD Board of Rights, which is a three-person panel charged with deciding discipline cases for officers facing long-term suspension or termination. The board consists of two LAPD command staff members and one independent civilian member, according to the City Charter. According to union members, two senior officers on the board “owe their livelihood” to Beck.
CBS 2
Beloved Anaheim Police K-9 Bruno Dies
An Anaheim police K-9 that was shot in the line of duty more than two years ago has died. Bruno, who was shot by a probationer during a SWAT standoff in March 2014, died just before 6 a.m. Wednesday with his handler by his side, according to a post on the Friends of the Anaheim Police K-9 Association's Facebook page. "It's with heavy hearts we announce the passing of K-9 Bruno at approximately 0555 hours this morning," the post said.
NBC 4
Knife-Wielding Man Outside of Universal Studios Taken Into Custody
A man holding a knife was arrested after engaging in a standoff with officers outside of Universal Studios, police said. The standoff began around 4:45 a.m. after police were investigating a man with stolen shopping carts, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The 30-year-old man began acting aggresively towards officers and then pulled out a 6-to-7 inch knife or dagger, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers used a Taser on the man and took him into custody, police said.
NBC 4
Hunt for North Hills killers: Quiet walks turn deadly
A search was underway Thursday to identify whomever shot and killed two men in separate crimes about an hour apart in North Hills. The first shooting took place about 3:10 a.m. Saturday in the 8500 block of Langdon Street, and the second at about 4 a.m. in the 15500 block of Nordhoff Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. No arrests have been reported, and it was unclear if the crimes were related, police said. In the first case, officers responded to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon and found the victim — identified by the coroner's office as Samuel Cuevas, 46, of Arleta — on the front porch of a home, police said. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
City News Service
City Hall Critic Arrested Over Racist Message Toward Herb Wesson
An outspoken critic of the Los Angeles City Council has been arrested after allegedly submitting a public-comment card that depicted a burning cross, a body dangling from a tree and an apparent Ku Klux Klan figure holding a sign labeling Council President Herb Wesson with a racially charged epithet. Wayne Spindler, an Encino-based attorney, was taken into custody Friday and booked on a felony count of making a criminal threat, said Officer Jane Kim of the Los Angeles Police Department. Spindler, 46, was released after posting $75,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on June 10, according to online jail records. He did not return a message seeking comment.
KTLA 5
Witness: 2 guns found at convicted ‘Grim Sleeper's' property linked to 3 killings
As jurors hear evidence on whether they should recommend a death sentence or life in prison without parole for the man convicted of the “Grim Sleeper” murders, a firearms analyst testified Wednesday that two guns found on the defendant's property were linked to bullets taken from the bodies of three women. Daniel Rubin, a criminalist with the Los Angeles Police Department's firearms analysis unit, said one of the weapons seized at Lonnie David Franklin Jr.'s property during a July 2010 search was test-fired and that he determined the bullets used to kill Georgia Mae Thomas in December 2000 were fired from the same pistol.
MyNewsLA.com
Woman Sentenced To Mental Health Program For Run In With Police Officer
A woman was sentenced today to three years probation and a mental health treatment program for a run-in with an LAPD officer moments before a man on Skid Row was shot to death by police last year. “She's doing much better than the last time I saw her,” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Drew E. Edwards said of Trishawn Cardessa Carey. The 35-year-old defendant was homeless at the time of her run-in with police. Her attorney, Milton Grimes, said outside court that she “lit up like
a Christmas tree” when she learned that she was getting her own apartment.
LA West Media
Showdown Set Over Future Of California's Death Penalty
Death penalty supporters are setting the stage on Thursday for a November showdown over whether to speed up executions in California or do away with them entirely. Crime victims, prosecutors and other supporters plan to submit about 585,000 signatures for a ballot measure to streamline what both sides call a broken system. No one has been executed in California in a decade because of ongoing legal challenges. Nearly 750 convicted killers are on the nation's largest death row, but only 13 have been executed since 1978. Far more condemned inmates have died of natural causes or suicide. Supporters plan 10 news conferences statewide to promote an initiative they say would save taxpayers millions of dollars annually, retain due process protections and bring justice to murder victims and their families.
Associated Press
More than a third of state prisons still giving poor care
A scathing inspector general's report released Wednesday finds medical care remains "markedly inadequate" at a Northern California state prison, as more than a third of the prisons inspected since last year still are deemed to be providing poor care. Problems remain even though California has spent $2 billion for new prison medical facilities, doubled its annual prison health care budget to nearly $1.7 billion and reduced its inmate population by more than 40,000 inmates in the last decade. Mule Creek State Prison employees "demonstrated a profound inability to provide patients with adequate Access to Care. There were problems in virtually all areas," inspectors found.
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About the LAPPL Formed in 1923, the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) represents the more than 9,900 dedicated and professional sworn members of the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPPL serves to advance the interests of LAPD officers through legislative and legal advocacy, political action and education. The LAPPL can be found on the Web at:
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