By day, Mingwei Samuel works as a software developer. Also by day — together with urbanist and writer Darrell Owens — he builds and installs benches at bus stops around the California cities of Berkeley and Oakland that have no seating. It’s a tale as old as social media: In November, Owens tweeted a photo […]
councilmember, thanks for the introduction. this has been a tough week in los angeles. we look across the last seven days with the loss of our officer, fernando arroyo followed by brianna s murder, a senseless murder. unfortunately it s during a time in which we saw the murder of a 70-year-old woman as she stood at a bus bench getting ready to go to usc and be a part of the first responder group, those helping to safeguard all of us. again, we also have a 16-year-old whose body was cruelly dumped on the side of a road last week of the 110 freeway. i ll be attending her vigil tonight. we re here today because of brianna. we re here today to pull out to call out to this community
career criminal. in fact, his last offense, one of his last offense was actually in san diego. and this is a guy that normally, in a previous time, would never have been out and about, but as a transient homeless person, ainsley, he attacked again and this woman is dead because of permissiveness that we re witnesses here with these d.a.s. steve: and in fact she was stabbed to death. she was murdered one week ago today. and so, you know, they did circulate these images. in fact, according to the papers out in los angeles, apparently this guy was in a restroom of a restaurant and somebody recognized him from police department photos that the lapd had been circulating. they called the cops and he was taken into custody at a bus bench nearby in pasadena. i hope the person who dropped the dime on this guy and got the