June 17, 2013

Paris Jackson’s 911 Call Mentions ‘20 Motrin Pills’, ‘Knife’ (Listen)

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  *TMZ has obtained the emergency call made from the Lost Hills Sheriff’s Dept. to the L.A. County Fire Dept. on June 5, reporting that Paris Jackson had “OD’d on 20 Motrin and cut her arm with a kitchen knife.” During the call, the Sheriff’s Dept. tells Fire that Paris is “awake and breathing.” The [...]




A Black Response to the Dorner Situation

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*I have to say for the record that the last thing we need to be doing in this time of golden opportunity is to do what we usually do. There is this African martial art that I am in love with called Capoeira Angola. Like all things of traditional Africa, it requires creativity. If you [...]




An Open Letter to the Los Angeles Police Department and the People they Police

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*Christopher Dorner is dead. Whether you agree or disagree with Dorner’s actions preceding his death or even how he died, one fact can’t be changed—he brought forth serious allegations of racism and discrimination within the Los Angeles Police Department. Dorner’s allegations have been publicly co-signed by both retired and terminated Black LAPD employees—and in private [...]




Retired LAPD Sgt. Cheryl Dorsey: The Stress on Officers isn’t the Public, it’s the Department

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*Cheryl Dorsey, 54, retired from the Los Angeles Police Department on August 26, 2000, exactly one day after her 20th anniversary with the department. When asked about Christopher Dorner, she says, “I am not surprised that it happened.  I am surprised it took this long and I’m convinced that it will happen again if the [...]




Ex-LA Cop Brian Bentley on Dorner Manifesto: ‘Not Only do I Believe it, but I Lived it’

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*Brian Bentley, 49, doesn’t agree with what Christopher Dorner — the ex-cop at center of a massive manhunt for the killings of three people—has done, but he certainly understands it. As a former LAPD officer, Bentley, who is now an author, says that a Dorner-like situation was just a matter of time. “It took longer [...]




LAPD Apologizes to B.I.G.’s Family for Autopsy Release

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*The Los Angeles Police Department has issued an apology to the family of The Notorious B.I.G., after it made the late rapper’s autopsy public without letting his relatives know ahead of time. Police said the records relating to the March 1997 slaying of the rapper, whose real name was Christopher George Latore Wallace, were released [...]




Video: Cop Claims Diddy, Suge Ordered Tupac/Biggie Killings

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*In his new self-published book “Murder Rap,” former Los Angeles Police Department Detective Greg Kading reveals that LAPD has been sitting on extensive tapes and documents containing confessions from key players behind the shootings of Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, reports LA Weekly. Kading claims that a Southside Crip named Duane “Keffe D” [...]




Anthony Mackie Weighing Films Co-Starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn

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*Anthony Mackie has scored an offer to star with Brad Pitt in “World War Z” and is under consideration to join “Gangster Squad” for Warner Bros., according to Variety. Marc Forster’s “World War Z” is based on the Max Brook’s novel about the world in the wake of a global zombie epidemic. Ruben Fleischer’s “Gangster [...]




Notorious B.I.G.: FBI Spent 2 Yrs Probing LAPD Link to Murder

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*Newly-released records reveal FBI agents on both coasts participated in a nearly two-year investigation aimed at finding out who gunned down the Notorious B.I.G. and whether any Los Angeles police officers were involved. The inquiry ended in early 2005, after federal prosecutors concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to pursue a case against any officers or [...]




Golden-Voiced Ted Williams, Daughter Detained

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*Ted Williams, the former homeless man known as having a “golden voice,” was detained Monday night with his daughter after police responded to a disturbance at a Los Angeles hotel, according to the Hollywood Reporter and Access Hollywood. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that two people were detained around 9 p.m. PT because of [...]




Jamie Foxx Complains About Racial Profiling

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*Like many Black men in America, Jamie Foxx is feeling the sting of racial profiling. He’s had a taste of it in Los Angeles when cops pulled him over in the affluent Westlake area. He feels the incident was spurred from racial profiling. “I get pulled over all the time. I live in Westlake. A [...]




Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates Dies at 83

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*Daryl Gates, the reigning chief of the Los Angeles police department when Rodney King was beaten, died at his home in Dana Point, California after suffering from bladder cancer. He was 83. Gates was thrust into the international spotlight in 1992 after several of his officers were secretly videotaped beating unarmed motorist Rodney King following [...]