Imagine you are a woman who was just violently raped. You are laying on the ground bleeding because your attacker decided he wanted to beat you before forcing himself on you. When he leaves, you are afraid for your life and you just want someone to help you. So, you do what you ...read more
March has rolled right in like a reminder that this year, like all previous ones, marks yet another notch off your incredibly short road to the grave. Rest easy, friend, for your agonizingly short descent into the cold and immortal nothingness does not proceed alone. Your ...read more
America is reeling from another police shooting of an unarmed black man, this time of a homeless man whom the LAPD says was going for an officer's gun during a struggle: The man was a suspect in a robbery on Sunday and the officers were trying to take him into custody when he ...read more
It took all of maybe two days after arriving at my new job at KCBS in Los Angeles to experience my first car chase -- and it was one hell of a nasty one. It was February of '96 and I was training with the noon producer, a guy named Andy, and had spent the morning shadowing him, ...read more
One of the most troubling aspects of the Danièle Watts story is how quickly the claims of two people were turned into concrete fact by the media. Maybe you believe Watts was unfairly detained by police in Studio City last Thursday, maybe you don't -- but the way the story of ...read more
There a lot of bad cops out there. There are racist bullies with badges who abuse their authority and lord over minorities with threats of violence and everyday harassment. There are cops who believe they can kill a person of color and will almost certainly not have to answer ...read more
The Los Angeles Police Department's killing of unarmed 25 year-old Ezell Ford has been overshadowed, nationally, by the events surrounding the Ferguson, Mo. killing of Mike Brown, but the police in Los Angeles are paying close attention to the real danger it poses: finger-gun ...read more
At same time that police in Ferguson, Mo. were tear-gassing people protesting the killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown Monday night, police in Los Angeles were shooting another young, unarmed black man. Witnesses say 25-year-old Ezell Ford was lying on the ground, complying with ...read more
