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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...

Thousands thronged the streets of Los Angeles in peaceful protests Tuesday and smaller demonstrations dotted California while authorities renewed overnight curfews in LA and other areas that have seen clashes with police and groups of thieves wreck hundreds of businesses. There were several sizable demonstrations in Los Angeles and Mayor Eric Garcetti took a knee at one while in a…

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…

National Guard troops arrived in the nation’s second-largest city overnight after a fourth day of protests Saturday saw demonstrators clash repeatedly with officers, torch police vehicles and pillage businesses. Mayor Eric Garcetti said he asked Gov. Gavin Newsom for 500 to 700 members of the Guard to assist the 10,000 Los Angeles Police Department officers. “The California National Guard is…

Looters broke windows and looted an Adidas store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Protesters returned to the streets around the country on Saturday, in some cases defying official curfews, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

An attorney for three transgender women who were physically removed from a downtown Los Angeles bar after a confrontation with a couple who allegedly hurled epithets and threats at them announced Thursday she has asked the state to revoke the establishment’s liquor license. The removal of Fernanda Celarie, Jennifer Cruz and Khloe Perez-Rios from Las Perlas on Aug. 23, 2019,…

Hundreds of protesters halted traffic on the 101 Freeway near Union Station in downtown Los Angeles while protesting the use of force over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Black Lives Matter protesters took to the freeway near the Alameda exit after the videotaped in-custody death of George Floyd, who died after an officer kneeled on his neck over…

A passenger in a car driving on the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles captured protesters marching into traffic.

Protesters marched onto the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday to protest the death of George Floyd.

The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter to the mayor of Los Angeles warning that an extension of the coronavirus stay-at-home orders may be unlawful

NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway introduces us to the South L.A. school that’s combating the issue while giving students the opportunity to dream.

Drone video shows firefighters escaping from a burning downtown Los Angeles building Saturday through an enormous cloud of smoke and a menacing fireball. The video obtained by the NBC4 I-Team captured firefighters climbing down a ladder from the roof of the single-story building as they’re surrounded by fire and smoke. Twelve firefighters were injured, but none of the injuries...

Drone footage captured the explosion that gutted a business and injured 12 firefighters in downtown Los Angeles. The firefighters are recovering after they escaped the burning building over the weekend.

Actor Sean Penn’s nonprofit Community Organized Relief Effort Friday announced it received a $10 million donation from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Start Small initiative to open more COVID-19 testing across the U.S. and the Navajo Nation. CORE stated it has set up a dozen COVID-19 test sites across California over the past five weeks and completed 100,000 tests for...

Lawyers for a man suing the city of Los Angeles because his car was allegedly wrongfully seized and sold as he was recouping from cancer surgery filed papers Thursday agreeing that the city can have until June 5 to respond. The case was filed April 10 in both U.S. District Court and Los Angeles Superior Court by Joseph Morrissey, who…

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday that LA will become the first city in the United States to offer free COVID-19 testing for all residents, regardless of whether they have symptoms.

Harrison Ford was piloting a plane that wrongly crossed a runway where another plane was landing, and federal authorities are investigating, officials and a representative for the actor said Wednesday.

April 24 marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Every year, Armenians around the world commemorate the anniversary in different ways to honor the estimated 1.5 million lives lost and to call on Turkey to recognize the genocide. In Los Angeles, a large-scale demonstration is held annually where thousands take to the streets and march for justice. However, due…