By City News Service
May 14, 2021
PACOIMA (CNS) - Police today arrested a man found armed with a knife inside a Pacoima middle school.
The Los Angeles School Police Department received a call about 9:15 a.m. from the principal of Maclay Middle School regarding a man spotted with the knife inside the school s gated area near the parking lot, according to an LASPD statement. The principal also reported that the man was walking on and off the campus, pulling on classroom doors and approaching staff with the knife.
The principal initiated a lockdown of the school and LASPD officers arrived at the scene.
By City News Service
May 12, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A man was taken into custody today after he allegedly fired a gun across the street from an elementary school in Los Angeles, causing it and another school to be locked down.
Police received a call of an assault with a deadly weapon in the 1500 block of East First Street at about 10:30 a.m., according to Officer William Cooper of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The Los Angeles School Police Department received a similar report of a man who discharged two gunshots in the air directly across the street from Utah Elementary School, the department said on its Instagram account.
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When 17-year-old Kahlila Williams heard ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, she felt a sense of resolve she knew it signaled that her work as a student activist was only beginning.
A leader with Students Deserve, Williams is part of a student-led organization that helped to successfully push the school board to defund the Los Angeles School Police Department last summer. Yet the high school senior who will be attending UCLA in the fall acknowledged that the work to reimagine policing and ending police brutality against Black Americans is still in progress.
This past week represented “a moment where you can just breathe, where you can take some space to celebrate, but also understand that there’s work that needs to be done,” Kahlila said.