Tag: Corruption

Sewage Spill Dumps 1.5 Million Gallons Of Sewage Forcing Closure of Beaches in Long Beach

At least 1.5 million gallons of sewage have spilled into the Los Angeles River and triggered a closure of all beaches in Long Beach.

Crews worked overnight to contain the fast-growing spill, which occurred about 2 p.m. Monday near 6th Street and Mission Road in Boyle Heights, according to Paul Gomez, a spokesman for the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.

The leak was finally stopped at 10 p.m., but crews remained at the site to repair the cracked pipe, said Adel Hagekhalil, assistant director of Los Angeles Sanitation. Hagekhalil said as much as 2 million gallons of sewage might have spilled.

“We had tankers working all night,” he said. “We diverted a spill away from Lincoln Heights. We’re continuing to do a bypass of the spill.”

Officials said the top of a sewer pipe collapsed, sending debris into the pipe and clogging it. Sewage overflowed and reached the L.A. River, and headed toward Long Beach.

Public Works officials don’t know what caused the break, but said the major pipe was built in 1929.

“This happening is just a part of the maintenance system,” Hagekhalil said. “Something grows old, you have to repair it or replace it.”

Sanitation workers on Tuesday were building a permanent bypass system to divert flow around the old pipe, Hagekhalil said.

Long Beach officials planned to test samples of ocean water Tuesday morning to determine whether it posed any health risks to the public, said Nelson Kerr, manager of the city’s Bureau of Environmental Health.

 

via Sewage Spill in L.A. Grows to 1.5 million Gallons, Forces Closure of Beaches in Long Beach — KTLA

LA Police Commission to Decide If Fatal Shooting Of Woman In Alley Was Justified

The Los Angeles Police Commission is expected to decide Tuesday whether an officer followed the department’s policies for using deadly force last summer when he shot and killed a woman in a South L.A. alley. 

Redel Jones, 30, was fatally shot by a Los Angeles police officer in August 2015 after she allegedly moved toward officers with a knife. 

As hundreds of demonstrators descended on downtown Los Angeles, the city’s Police Commission on Tuesday faulted two LAPD officers for their tactics leading up to the killing of a black woman in South L.A. last year, but found that the fatal shooting did not violate the department’s deadly force policy.

The board’s decision touched off protests outside the LAPD’s downtown headquarters that quickly moved across the street to City Hall, where activists pounded on the glass doors and decried how police officers use force, particularly against African Americans. In the year after Redel Jones’ death, her name has been chanted at meetings, written on signs carried at protests and spread on Twitter as a hashtag.

Jones, 30, was killed after Los Angeles police say she moved toward an officer while holding a knife. The LAPD has said Jones matched the description of a woman who robbed a nearby pharmacy about 20 minutes earlier, prompting officers to pursue her into the alley.

But a woman who said she saw the August 2015 shooting from her car questioned why police opened fire, telling the Los Angeles Times that Jones was running away from the officers and never turned toward them.

Alton Sterling’s Oldest Son Breaks Down In Tears During His Mother’s Statement On Father’s Murder

What a cold blooded story. Literally.

I really don’t have the words to describe the emotions I feel for this family. 

I feel sorry for his children, who have to forever live with this travesty as the last vision of their father, on the ground being jumped by 2 police officers and shot in cold blood. Especially when he was out there attempting to sell CDs & other goods to support his family. 

What’s even more terrifying and devastating is that someone can just simply call in a report of a “black man with a gun” and this is the end result. There was no gun found, btw. 

Below is a video of the mother of Alton Sterling’s children speaking on the family’s devastation caused by his cold blooded murder. 

Sadly, Sterling’s oldest son, 15, breaks down into tears with grief. No child should have to endure this kind of pain, especially at the hands of the supposed “good guys.” 

Donate to the Alton Sterling Family Scholarship which was set up to help support his children.

Hopefully with time the children will be able to use this horrifying situation to better themselves & their community. 

It’s gotta be a heavy & seemingly unfair cross to bear. 

#RIPAltonSterling #BlackLivesMatter