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★ Los Angeles

‘The culmination of four decades of police brutality.’  ibid.  Patricia Moore, Compton councilwoman

 

‘William Parker turned the LAPD into a quasi-military force as opposed to a police department that was working in conjunction with the black community.’  ibid.  Dr Todd Boyd

 

‘The Watts riots were the signal for the beginning of the black power phase of the civil rights movement.’  ibid.  Boyd  

 

Merchant Charged: Teenager Shot, Killed in Dispute Over Orange Juice …Last Saturday violence erupted again between a Korean merchant and a Black patron in South Central Los Angeles.  The proprietor of a convenience market shot and killed an unarmed 15-year-old girl whom the owner says was stealing.  ibid.  Sentinel news report

 

‘No jail time for the killing of an African-American child.’  ibid.  commentator

 

‘Black people are still being treated like prey in our community.’  ibid.  Danny Bakewell  

 

 

44,000 people in Los Angeles are homeless.  On the Streets, caption, 2017

 

‘What are we supposed to do?’  ibid.  homeless person

 

‘I used to be somebody.  Now I’m somebody else.’  ibid.  

 

 

I was in south Los Angeles on a journey through the outer edges of canine companionship.  LA is well known for its pampered pooches, but its high crime areas are home to a community of street dogs.  Louis Theroux: LA Stories: City of Dogs, BBC 2014

 

 

For several months I’ve been spending time in the twilight world of Los Angeles’ paroled sex offenders.  The serious nature of their crimes has placed them outside normal society and controlled by some of the most restrictive legislation in America.  Louis Theroux: LA Stories: Among the Sex Offenders

 

When if ever a sex offender deserves a second chance.  ibid.  

 

Amy Beck served a year in prison for unlawful sexual intercourse with an under-age boy.  ibid.

 

 

Los Angeles 1942: A city thrown into a state of panic following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  As tension mounts, bigotry and hatred rise to the surface and the young Mexican-Americans become public enemy number one.  This is the shocking story of wartime hysteria.  Wartime Crime s1e4: Zoot Suit Riots, Yesterday 2018

 

President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 which displaces Japanese-Americans from their homes and forces them into internment camps across the West Coast.  ibid.

 

Los Angeles goes to war with these teenagers.  ibid.  

 

Sleepy Lagoon murder January 12th 1943: Henry Leyvas and two friends are found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison while nine other are interred in San Quentin for second-degree murder.  ibid.  

 

 

‘Who will protect us from our protectors?  That is the question of America.  Breaking History: L A Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later, History 2018  

 

Jeremy McDole September 2015; Philando Castile July 2016; Alton Sterling July 2016; Freddie Gray April 2015; Michael Brown August 2014; Trayvon Martin February 2012; Sandra Bland July 2015; Tamir Rice November 2014; Eric Garner July 2014; Ezell Ford August 2014 …  ibid.  caption

 

‘Once the helicopter is on you, there’s nothing you can do.’  ibid.  Rodney King

 

Witnesses Depict Relentless Beatings: Accounts of Rodney Glen King’s arrest describe repeated striking and kicking of the suspect.  LAPD officers said King’s actions justified the treatment.  ibid.  Los Angeles Times

 

‘Simi Valley is a predominantly white community that is home to hundreds of law enforcement officials.’  ibid.  news

 

‘Not a single black person on the panel.’  ibid.  news

 

‘This is a brutalisation of the truth; that is the tragedy of America.’  ibid.  Reverend Cecil Murray

 

15 minutes into the attack, four community members rescued Reginald Denny by driving his truck to a local hospital.  ibid.  caption  

 

‘All night looters running wild in the streets of Los Angeles.’  ibid.  news

 

Deaths: 63; Injuries 2,383; Buildings Burned 3,767.  ibid.  captions

 

 

2,400 times a year.  44 times a week.  9 times a day.  Every 48 minutes.  A bank is robbed here.  This is the bank robbery capital of the world: Los Angeles.  Den of Thieves 2018 starring Gerard Butler & Pablo Schreiber & O’Shea Jackson junior & 50 Cent & Evan Jones & Cooper Andrews & Maurice Compte & Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau & Dan Olivieri & Lewis Tan et al, director Christian Gudegast, caption  

 

 

Los Angeles is not a holiday, it’s a lobotomy.  The Brits are Coming aka The Con is On 2018 starring Uma Thurman & Tim Roth & Maggie Q & Alice Eve & Sofia Vergara & Parker Posey & Stephen Fry & Crispin Glover & Michael Sirow & Carly Steel & Melissa Sue Anderson & Daniel Franzese et al, director James Oakley, Roth

 

 

‘The high on crack cocaine was better than sex … I made millions and millions of dollars.  I wasn’t afraid of nothing and nobody.  I wasn’t afraid to die.  So they made me queen-pin.’  Drug Lords s1e2: Jemeker Thompson: Crack Queen of LA, Jemeker, Netflix 2018

 

The crack business is booming and Jemeker’s lifestyle shows it.  One of the richest and most feared drug lords in LA.  ibid.

 

‘I just never got enough of it.’  ibid.  Jemeker

 

‘Within two weeks I was going like two, three K [a day].’  ibid.

 

Cheap to make and even easier to distribute.  ibid.

 

One of the most powerful, wealthiest drug lords in the United States.  ibid.

 

But the DEA agents aren’t the only ones monitoring Jemeker.  ibid.

 

 

Los Angeles, California: cocaine capital of the west coast.  Federal agents pursue traffickers by land and sea.  While dealers fight to cash in.  Dope s3e3: No Face, No Case, Netflix 2019

 

 

Half a million Americans are homeless, and the problem can often be seen at in starkest in the shadows and backstreets of the City of Angels.  The Americas with Simon Reeve III, BBC 2019

 

 

There were riots and the city was on fire and innocent people were shot and killed in cold blood.  People Magazine Investigates s3e9: Murder on Newberry Street, Sky 2019  

 

Both of these cases should really have been solved in 1969.  ibid.

 

27 year old Lillie Bell Allen has been shot at point black range and her family is under siege by dozens of shooters.  ibid.   

 

 

He fell from up there on the motherfucking cab.  Shit.  I think he’s dead.  Collateral 2004 starring Tom Cruise & Jamie Foxx & Jason Statham & Jada Pinkett Smith & Mark Ruffalo & Peter Berg & Bruce McGill & Irma P Hall & Barry Shabaka Henley & Richard T Jones et al, director Michael Mann, cab driver

 

I can’t drive you around while you’re killing people, man.  ibid.

 

Foxx: What are you?

 

Cruise: Indifferent.  ibid.

 

I do this for a living.  ibid.

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