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Homeless woman arrested in fatal shooting of homeless man, LAPD says
June 24, 2021 4:56 PM PT
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A homeless woman was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of fatally shooting a homeless man in Mid-Wilshire hours earlier, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Eva Fekete, 71, of Los Angeles was booked on a murder count and is being held in lieu of $2-million bail, police said. The case will be reviewed for possible charging by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Fekete could not be reached for comment, and did not have an attorney listed in court records.
Officers responded to the reported shooting near the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Ridgely Drive, just east of the La Brea Tar Pits and near a Ralphs supermarket, about 12:40 p.m. Wednesday and found a man believed to be in his 40s suffering from a gunshot wound, police said.
By City News Service
May 18, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles Police Department internally identified an employee who distributed a Valentine s Day-themed social media post mocking the death of George Floyd, and Chief Michel Moore said today that he has recommended the person be fired.
Moore told the city s Police Commission on Tuesday that identifying the employee responsible is prohibited by state law, but the person was referred to the department s Board of Rights, its disciplinary appeal board. He clarified to commissioners that when a person is referred to the Board of Rights, they re recommended to be fired.
Activists have been calling for the firing of any LAPD employee who created or circulated the post, which featured an image of Floyd who was killed on May 25, 2020 after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes that included the words “You take my breath away. The police union, the Floyd family attorney and various city lead
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A review of recent police misconduct cases by the Los Angeles Police Department’s inspector general found that hearing panels comprised entirely of civilians were more lenient on accused officers than more traditional panels with two officers and one civilian.
In the most serious cases, in which officers were recommended for termination by LAPD Chief Michel Moore, the all-civilian panels recommended a lesser penalty more than 70% of the time, the review found leaving 11 officers on the force who otherwise would have been fired.
While based on a relatively small number of cases, the findings suggest that a 2019 ordinance allowing all-civilian Board of Rights panels for the first time has resulted just as community activists feared in lighter penalties for LAPD officers found to have violated department policies or committed more serious misconduct.
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A federal judge on Monday extended recent court restrictions on the Los Angeles Police Department’s use of hard-foam projectiles at protests, granting a preliminary injunction on the weapons that had been requested by protest groups suing the city.
U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall issued her ruling after finding that Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and other activists had successfully shown that they faced “irreparable harm” at future protests if the court did not intervene to restrict the weapons.
Her ruling largely keeps in place measures reining in the LAPD’s use of the weapons at street demonstrations that had previously been issued under a more temporary restraining order, which Marshall granted last month.