Los Angeles Police Department

Dec 29 2010

Community is outraged

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—A $50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the killers of a woman who was gunned down Christmas night in front of her 3-year-old daughter—and the toddler herself made a plea for help in finding the people responsible.
 

Dec 29 2010

Three African American males

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Los Angeles police sought the public's help to identify three men caught on surveillance tape robbing a South Los Angeles liquor store the day after Christmas.

About 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, three men entered a liquor store in the 6000 block of South Avalon Boulevard, where they found two employees working. Two of the men were allegedly armed with semi-automatic handguns, according to Los Angeles police.

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.

Gregg Reese  |   OW Staff Writer
Dec 23 2010

LAPD failed to observe “due diligence”

The release last week of 160 photographs taken from the home of suspected Grim Sleeper Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was followed by complaints by his attorney that the Los Angeles Police Department failed to observe “due diligence” by not carefully screening the pictures before submitting them to the public.

Dec 22 2010

Joanne Marie Woodworth

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Los Angeles police today asked the public's help to find a missing 51-year-old Topanga woman.

Joanne Marie Woodworth was last seen on Dec. 16, 2010, around 1 p.m. at her home in the 23900 block of Bessemer Street. Woodworth has not been seen or heard from since and her family is extremely concerned for her welfare, according to police.

Woodworth is described as white, with brown hair and brown eyes. She stands five feet six inches tall and weighs around 150 pounds. It is unknown what she was wearing last.

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.