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A patchwork of efforts across the city and county of L.A. struggle to meet the demand for psychiatric crisis response. “No matter how much you ask for the help, getting the help is not something that is guaranteed,” one mother told LAist.
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In last year's election, Thorpe ousted incumbent Mayor Sean Wright, and Mayor Pro Tem Joy Motts lost to Tamisha Torres-Walker. The vote count delivered an African-American majority on the City Council and a definite progressive swing to local politics. In launching the discussion on the proposals, Thorpe emphasized the importance of bringing more "transparency" to police practices. Torres-Walker noted, "Change is never easy … but the world is watching. What we are doing today is just the floor not the ceiling." The council spent hours of the meeting airing public comments from hundreds of r...
Antioch City Council passes police reform package By Chris Campos article ANTIOCH, Calif. - Police body cameras are part of a reform package endorsed by the Antioch City Council following a marathon 7.5-hour meeting Friday night. Following a delayed public revelation of the in-custody death of Angelo Quinto in December and another in-custody death Wednesday, Mayor Lamar Thorpe announced a police reform program that he brought before the council in a special meeting. "It's been a pretty turbulent week in the city of Antioch," Thorpe noted at the open of the meeting. The mayor offered seven re...
Immigration policy. this guy gets a pass for the k.k.k. because he was trying to get elected. he filibustered against the civil rights movement when he was 47. it's not a youthful indiscretion. look how the "new york times" portrayed strom thurmond. strom thurmond, foe of integration, dies at 100. same paper on the death of k.k.k. member and filibuster of the civil rights movement robert c. bird. byrd, a pillar of the senate, dies at 92. interesting to me both were written by the same person. adam climer. how could he see the two people so differently?