Editorial: More accountability, less cluelessness needed from LAPD (via latimesopinion)
The city needs to get aid to residents and businesses fast.
The explosion was obviously an injurious use of force by officers that resulted in great bodily injury. It matters not at all that the injury was inflicted by explosion rather than firearm or police baton, or that it was an unintended consequence of the detonation. LAPD Chief Michel Moore, astoundingly, exacerbated his department’s stonewalling by criticizing the reporters’ adherence to high standards of journalism as somehowHe appears to oppose knocking on doors and asking questions, unless perhaps it’s the police doing the knocking and asking.
of his performance, to make her position clear on the refusal to turn over records of the explosion’s aftermath and Moore’s attitude toward reporters’ exercise of their 1st Amendment rights.
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