#LAPD Publishes Crime Footage It Got From a #Waymo Driverless Car
https://www.404media.co/lapd-publishes-crime-footage-it-got-from-a-waymo-driverless-car/
“The proliferation of Waymo cars also means the proliferation of roving surveillance cameras. LAPD has shown an interest in obtaining footage from autonomous vehicles that operate in the city; last year we reported on a case in which the LAPD obtained footage from an autonomous food delivery robot to investigate a crime.”
https://www.404media.co/lapd-publishes-crime-footage-it-got-from-a-waymo-driverless-car/
Today in Labor History March 21, 1946: The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington, the first professional African American football player in the U.S. since 1933. His father played baseball in the negro leagues. His uncle was the first black lieutenant in the LAPD. In college, he played both baseball and football. He was a teammate of Jackie Robinson’s at UCLA. Many people thought he was a better baseball player than Robinson. Leo Durocher supposedly offered him a contract to play major league baseball, but only if he played in Puerto Rico first, which Washington refused to do.
More recently, in LA, we saw LAPD fatally shoot Linda Becerra Moran, a trans sex worker from about 10 feet away for taking a few steps toward officers with a knife.
She was never an imminent threat to them.
Moran initially called the police reporting that she had been kidnapped and sex trafficked.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-09/linda-becerra-moran-lapd-shooting
Today in Labor History March 3, 1991: An amateur video caught LAPD beating Rodney King. Four officers were tried for excessive force. Despite the video footage of police brutally beating a defenseless King, the jury acquitted all the cops involved. Within hours of the acquittals, riots erupted in cities across the U.S. The biggest was the Los Angeles riots, which lasted six days and killed 64 people (including 2 Asians, 28 African Americans, 19 Latinos and 15 whites), and injured 2,383. The National Guard, Army and Marines came in and ultimately quashed the riots. The riots in L.A. also included an anti-Asian pogrom. 2,300 Korean businesses were looted or burned and hundreds of Koreans suffered from PTSD. 64 people died in the riots,
In San Francisco, African American youth chased cops down the street with bats. And protesters shattered the facade of Bank of America with a concrete bus bench. I also remember having to duck behind a car to avoid being shot by a frightened shop owner. The violent police assault on King was one of the first to go viral in the digital age. It ushered in a new era of citizens documenting police brutality.
Many LAPD officers don't live in the City of Los Angeles, which is a huge problem for obvious reasons. Requiring them to do so is a perennial theme of local anti-police activism but TIL that the California Constitution *forbids* cities from doing this:
"A city or county, including any chartered city or chartered county, or public district, may not require that its employees be residents of such city, county, or district; except that such employees may be required to reside within a reasonable and specific distance of their place of employment or other designated location."
"In 2021, Vice News reported on the company, which it described as one of the 'biggest K-9 training facilities in the country, supplying dogs for more than 300 police agencies.'
Adlerhorst, which means 'Eagle's Nest' in German, was a World War II bunker complex built to hide Hitler in the Bavarian Alps. The location also served as Hitler's command post in December 1944 and January 1945.
Vice reported that David Reaver, founder and pioneering police K-9 trainer, had been sued dozens of times related to alleged injuries caused by the dogs that come from his facility. Reaver has denied allegations of racism in the past, saying the company's name comes from a German kennel where he bought a dog in the 1960s. He launched his company in 1976."
So sad! 
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LAPD officers detail personal impact of mistaken 2023 release of their photos
What would we do without the cops to keep us safe?!?
"From 2016 through 2022, 38 percent of all LAPD arrests and citations combined were of unhoused people, including nearly 100 percent of all citations and over 42 percent of all misdemeanor arrests."
More than 1800 international police officers from 43 countries will be deployed in Paris to help with security at the Olympics. The LAPD is there and they’re the odds-on favorite to take the gold in excessive use of force.
- written by me for tonight's This Week This Week performing live on stage in LA
#news #satire #parody #comedy #sketch #sketch comedy #LosAngeles #lapd #police #olympics #paris
Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, vetoed a measure that would have let the police chief terminate problem officers and also change how officers are disciplined. Thank god: everyone knows the LAPD will never abuse their power. I mean, when have they before?
LA's fireworks game is tight as ever.
LA Metro will vote tomorrow on creating their own police force rather than contracting with LAPD and LASD as they currently do and here's the LA Times editorializing in favor of this absolutely gross plan. This editorial is chock full of lies about safety, declining ridership, etc. Obviously this plan is about harassing the homeless, the poor, and other vulnerable populations, because that's what the cops do now. These people have never ridden a damn bus.
"While there are legitimate concerns about the cost and logistics of building a police department from scratch, including Metro’s ability to staff up at a time when agencies are struggling to hire officers, contracting for law enforcement service is not working well. It’s time to try a different approach. Metro is facing a doom spiral if it cannot make the system safer and increase ridership. An in-house police force is not a panacea for all the system’s ills, but rather one piece of a broader safety strategy that ensures riders feel comfortable and well served on L.A. public transit."
#LosAngeles #LAMetro #LAPD #LASD #PublicTransportation #PoliceAbolition #ACAB
Today in Labor History June 15, 1990: Los Angeles cops attacked 500 janitors who were peacefully demonstrating in the Battle of Century City. The event generated public outrage that resulted in recognition of the workers’ union and spurred the creation of an annual June 15 Justice for Janitors Day. Justice For Janitors includes over 200,000 janitors in cities across the U.S. and Canada. The movement is part of the SEIU. Ken Loach’s wonderful film “Bread and Roses” (2000), was based on the Justice For Janitors struggle. Loach turned down the Turin Film Festival award in 2012 because they had fired their custodial staff for opposing a wage cut. He also was part of the group of artists and writers who called on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival "to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate."
‘FUCK the LAPD' Shirt Maker's Entire Shop Sold Out After Cops Threaten Him
"Streisand Effect in effect," designer says after their legal response went viral.
https://www.404media.co/fuck-the-lapd-shirt-makers-entire-shop-sold-out-after-cops-threaten-him/
Speaking of the devil. 
Did you know that there are multiple criminal gangs within police departments, especially in LA?
https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/
That thing last month where the LAPD had their lawyers send a bogus DMCA takedown request to some people selling "Fuck the LAPD" t-shirts, and the t-shirt people's lawyer sent back a letter that literally just said, "LOL, no"? Well, here comes act 2: the "LOL, no" lawyers have sent a 
scathing letter to the other lawyers asking why they shouldn't seek attorney's fees.
"On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are joined with a guest who discusses the mass mobilization to defend the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, which was attacked by far-Right Zionists on April 30th and then by hundreds of riot police on May 1st, who made over 200 violent arrests."
#Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #Ceasefire #UCLA #LAPD
https://itsgoingdown.org/report-from-the-battle-to-defend-ucla/
UCLA PD along with LAPD and LASD just arrested more than 40 people including faculty , legal observers, and at least three local journalists and charged them with conspiracy to commit burglary. This daily bruin story has the first part of it and the rest is from Twitter. This was in response to a planned demonstration on campus this morning.
#UCLA #LAPD #UCPD #LASD #CampusProtests #FreeGaza #Palestine #LosAngeles
"On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are joined with a guest who discusses the mass mobilization to defend the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, which was attacked by far-Right Zionists on April 30th and then by hundreds of riot police on May 1st, who made over 200 violent arrests."
#Palestine #FreePalestine #Gaza #Ceasefire #UCLA #LAPD
https://itsgoingdown.org/report-from-the-battle-to-defend-ucla/
The LA Police Foundation sent a C&D letter to the seller of shirts that said "FUCK THE LAPD."
The Foundation said it holds exclusive IP rights to the word "LAPD."
The seller's response was succinct:
LOL, no.
