77th Street Police Division

Aug 26 2011

Weapon recovered

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The police officer wounded during a confrontation in a South Los Angeles neighborhood underwent successful hand surgery today, as police continued to search for at least one suspect in the case.

“The officer underwent very successful hand surgery this morning and we expect him to have full recovery with therapy down the line,” Dr. Gudata Hinika, chief of trauma at California Hospital Medical Center said.

Hinika also said the officer was awake and alert and in good spirits.

Feb 18 2011

Kidnapping investigation

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A missing 2-year-old girl was found today, police said.

Toddler Lashiba Joy Berry disappeared from her family's trailer in South Los Angeles on Tuesday and was brought to the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Station by suspect Tamara Moore at about 11:15 p.m on Thursday, LAPD Sgt. Steve Muirhead said.

Moore was arrested and booked on suspicion of kidnapping, Muirhead said.

Feb 16 2011

$50,000

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A $50,000 reward was announced today for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect responsible for fatally shooting a man in his back as he crossed a street in South Los Angeles.

Family members and business colleagues attended a news conference at which Councilman Bernard Parks and top police officials investigating the case discussed the shooting Wednesday at 10:40 p.m. of 31-year-old Herbert Eugene Seymour who was walking home from a liquor store near 105th Street and Western Avenue.

Dec 27 2010

Daughter in the backseat of car

SOUTH LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Friends and family mourned the death of a 26-year-old woman who was gunned down in front of her daughter in South Los Angeles, in what police believe was a gang attack aimed at someone else.

The woman was getting out of her car at 85th Street and Western Avenue about 10:30 p.m. Christmas night when two men in a dark blue vehicle drove up and fired nine shots, striking her once in the head, before fleeing south on Western, said Lt. Peter Casey of the LAPD's 77th Street Division.

She died at the scene.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.