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LAPD Cops Facing Life Sentence for Multiple Rape Charges Six Years After Complaint Filed

LAPD officers James Christopher Nichols and Luis Gustavo Valenzuela were charged today with rape under color of authority for their acts on the job over a course of years from 2008 to 2011 by the Los Angeles County district attorney.
But that wasn’t all.
The pair of Hollywood narcotics detectives were charged with forcible rape, and oral copulation under color of authority for using their badges to manipulate women who were informants or suspects into performing sexual acts with the cops, while they were on paid duty.

LAPD Sued for Shooting Man in Face After He Had Asked for Help

The Los Angeles Police Department is facing legal action for shooting an unarmed man in the head and leaving him with a collapsed skull, blindness and crippled.
Walter DeLeon waved a towel in his hands to flag down help in his neighborhood, when he encountered the two officers last summer.
DeLeon exchanged a few words and was quickly shot by LAPD officer Cairo Palacios on a Friday evening.
The horrifying and bloody viral video first posted to twitter on June 19th, 2015 by a witness.

EFF Urges Department of Justice Not to Fund LAPD’s Body Cameras

By Jennifer Lynch | EFF | September 16, 2015 Next week the Department of Justice will likely decide whether to issue a grant to the Los Angeles Police Department to purchase 700 body-worn video cameras. Because LAPD’s body camera policy fails to ensure accountability and transparency and would, in fact, hide almost all camera footage […]

New Video Dispels the “Reached for My Gun” Myth of LAPD Cops in Killing of Homeless Man

By Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project | March 11, 2015 Los Angeles, CA — Following the shooting of a homeless man in LA’s Skid Row last week, controversy arose over why the three LAPD officers pulled their triggers. Chief Charlie Beck said that the video showed ‘Africa,’ the man killed by police, reach […]