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LAPD Chief Says Credential Process Needs Reform After Journalists' Detentions By City News Service Los Angeles UPDATED 1:15 PM PT Apr. 06, 2021 PUBLISHED 12:56 PM PT Apr. 06, 2021 PUBLISHED 12:56 PM PDT Apr. 06, 2021 SHARE LOS ANGELES (CNS) — After multiple journalists were detained by Los Angeles Police Department officers while covering the March 25 demonstrations at Echo Park Lake, Chief Michel Moore told poli...
By City News Service echo park (file photo) After multiple journalists were detained by Los Angeles Police Department officers while covering the March 25 demonstrations at Echo Park Lake, Chief Michel Moore told police commissioners today that the department is working to reform its credentialing process. “We need a means of which to issue those credentials more expeditiously, including potentially on scene or announcing a site that will do credentialing for an upcoming announced event. Those are the processes that are being worked on now,” Moore said during Tuesday’s police co...
Print We are slowly emerging from the pandemic, and it sure looks like there are a lot of things that need fixing. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news. The Echo Park shutdown Construction fence and police tape. That’s about all you’ll see this week if you pay a visit to Echo Park Lake. Not to mention a robust (to put it mildly) police presence, which, on a recent Sunday visit, had patrols circling the park at regular intervals — as well as parked along the lake’s north end.
By City News Service Published April 1, 2021 Two Los Angeles councilmen today introduced a motion requesting a report from the Los Angeles Police Department on officers’ detention of journalists during demonstrations last week in Echo Park and the department’s broader conduct toward journalists. “The right of a free press to cover demonstrations, political protest and police activity is essential to a functioning democracy and must be preserved,” Councilmen Mike Bonin and Kevin de Leon said in the motion, which was seconded by Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez. ADVERTISEMENT The motion ci...
Faculty at USC, UCLA, UC Irvine and Occidental College penned a letter to Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday to express their "grave and urgent concerns" about the city's removal of approximately 200 unhoused Angelenos living at Echo Park Lake.