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A senior detention officer with the Los Angeles Police Department has died due to complications with the novel coronavirus, the department said Saturday. Officer Erica McAdoo lost her battle with the virus on Friday, the LAPD said in a statement. As of Saturday, the department had 287 employees at home after being exposed to or testing positive for COVID-19, the…

The city of Los Angeles agreed to pay $985,000 to settle federal excessive force claims against a Los Angeles police officer for firing into a group of Black teenagers after he mistook a replica gun for a real weapon, it was announced Thursday. On Feb. 10, 2015, Jamar Nicholson, Jason Huerta and their schoolmates were rapping in an alley a…

 A week before George Floyd was killed, Jane Nguyen created a bar graph. Nguyen, co-founder of Ktown for All, an activist group that advocates for the homeless, plugged numbers into Excel from the budget that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti released a few weeks earlier. City spending on housing appeared on Nguyen’s graph as a sliver compared to over $3 billion...

An investigation was underway Saturday morning into the detainment of former “Saturday Night Live” cast member and comedian Jay Pharoah by Los Angeles police in Tarzana. Pharoah said in a video posted to his Instagram account Friday that he was jogging in the area of Ventura Boulevard and Corbin Avenue in late April when four officers stopped him and ordered…

A Los Angeles police officer who was seen on cellphone video repeatedly striking a trespassing suspect in late April in Boyle Heights pleaded not guilty Thursday to a felony charge of assault under color of authority. Frank Hernandez, 49, is accused of punching the unarmed man more than a dozen times in the head, neck and body during a confrontation…

Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday he will not authorize an increase of the Los Angeles Police Department’s budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year and is temporarily prohibiting officers from entering names into a statewide gang database. “To the men and women of our Los Angeles Police Department, we ask so much of you, and never more than in these...

Los Angeles police have arrested more than 2,700 people since protests began last week, a total believed the largest of any American city. Police Chief Michel Moore provided the figure Tuesday to the Police Commission, a civilian oversight board. He said about 2,500 of the arrests were for failure to disperse or curfew violations. The rest were for crimes including…

One person was hospitalized in a shootout Monday night at a gas station west of downtown Los Angeles.  Plain-clothed LAPD narcotics officers arrived a Chevron gas station near Vermont Avenue and 22nd Street, just south of the 10 Freeway. As they drove up to the gas pump island, two of three men opened fire on the officers, police said. ...

A Los Angeles Police Department vehicle with four officers inside crashed into a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Studio City Monday night and two officers were hospitalized with minor injuries. A civilian car accidentally cut off the police vehicle, and officers swerved to avoid hitting the car, instead crashing into the coffee shop at 12501 Ventura Blvd., near Whitsett…

The Los Angeles Police Department wants to test everyone its officers arrest to determine whether they are infected with the coronavirus and is asking city officials to purchase a rapid-result testing system. But it’s unclear whether such a system will produce accurate test results. Police Chief Michel Moore told the department’s civilian oversight body last week that jails are...

Two off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officers were detained Sunday after a third LAPD officer was shot and injured at a camp site in an unincorporated area near Apple Valley in San Bernardino County, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News.

The first case of COVID-19 in the Los Angeles Police Department was confirmed Sunday in one of its supervisors at Pacific Division, the department said. The supervisor exhibited flu-like symptoms March 5, the LAPD said. The person was sent home and tested for COVID-19, which came back positive. He is improving and expects to make a full recovery, the LAPD…

A 4-month-old baby boy was killed and two other children remain hospitalized following a suspected DUI crash involving two SUVs on a North Hills street. The head-on crash was reported at about midnight in the 15200 block of West Nordhoff Street in the west San Fernando Valley community. A white sport utility vehicle driven by the children’s mother crossed into…

A San Fernando Valley intersection was filled with tire smoke and rage Monday in a bizarre car-to-pickup confrontation that was caught on camera. The video was a key piece of evidence that led to an arrest shortly after the altercation. In the video taken Monday evening at Victory and Laurel Canyon boulevards, a driver in a white BMW sedan can…

Protesters outside the home of Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey were confronted in the early hours of Monday by her husband, who was armed with a handgun when he opened the doors and repeatedly demanded that they leave the Granada Hills residence. Police responded to the home early Monday morning. Video posted by Black Lives Matter LA shows…

New York rapper Pop Smoke was killed in a shooting during a home invasion early Wednesday at a Hollywood Hills home, multiple sources tell NBC News.

Family and marriage therapist Amie Harwick died due to blunt force injuries to her head and upper body, according to a coroner’s report released Tuesday.

A man suspected of groping at least a dozen female students near campus was detained on Friday, officials said. The suspect was taken into custody about 3 p.m. near the intersection of Grand Avenue and Adams Boulevard in South Los Angeles, according to Officer Tony Im of the Los Angeles Police Department. The suspect is allegedly involved in over a…