BRIEFLY D.A.: ACTOR'S FATAL SHOOTING JUSTIFIED.The district attorney, following an 18-month investigation, concluded Wednesday that a policeman was justified when he shot and killed a San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. actor at a Halloween party after the actor pulled a realistic-looking movie prop gun and aimed it at the officer. The report also said Anthony Dwain Lee Anthony Dwain Lee (July 17, 1971 – October 28, 2000) was an African-American actor through the 1990s. He was shot to death by LAPD officer Terriel Hopper under mysterious circumstances during a Halloween party while wielding a toy gun. of Van Nuys had alcohol and cocaine in his system and was clutching fragments of a pill found to be the drug known as Ecstasy when he was killed in October 2000. In a 25-page report issued by District Attorney Steve Cooley Stephen Lawrence ("Steve") Cooley (born May 1, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is a veteran prosecutor who was elected as Los Angeles County's 36th District Attorney on November 7, 2000. He was sworn in for his second term on December 6, 2004. and signed by Deputy District Attorney Michael Kenneth Pettersen, the conclusion was essentially the same one reached by police Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. shortly after the shooting. Parks said Officer Tarriel Hopper was justified in believing the weapon brandished by the 39-year-old actor was real. Seeking to explain why Lee was killed by shots to his back, the report said that five of the shots missed him and he was turning to his left and ``ducking down'' when the other four shots found their target. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Burbank Airport, Mineta to team up BURBANK - Federal Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has pledged to work with the city and the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority to resolve the dispute over a new terminal and a nighttime flight curfew. Mineta met with Rep. Adam Schiff
Adam B. Schiff (born June 20 1960) is an American politician. He first served in the California State Senate. , D-Pasadena, on Wednesday. The two discussed airport and airline security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security , including legislation proposed by Schiff to permit local, state and federal law enforcement officers to serve as sky marshals while traveling on commercial flights. Councilwoman Stacey Murphy will visit Mineta next week in Washington to express the city's interest in making the Burbank Airport issue, a regional one. Murphy is a member of a committee for the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Regional Airport Authority. - Daily News Condor heading for release in wild After spending the last 15 years saving his species, AC-9 is getting ready to soar once again. The California condor, who in 1987 became the last wild condor captured for a breeding program, left the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. on Tuesday for a flight pen in the Los Padres National Forest Los Padres National Forest is a forest located in southern and central California, which includes most of the mountainous land along the California coast from Ventura to Monterey, extending inland. Elevations range from sea level to 8,831 feet. in Santa Barbara County. The 22-year-old bird will be released around May 1, after he gets re-accustomed to his old home, said Michael Clark, a condor keeper with the zoo. Condors, the largest birds in North America, nearly disappeared in the 1980s because of habitat loss and toxins. Breeding programs at the zoo and two other sites have helped its numbers rebound from 22 to 188. AC-9 fathered 16 of those birds, making his genetic line so well represented that biologists decided he now could do the most good by showing captive-raised condors around the neighborhood. - Associated Press Beach cameras won't be invasion Six months to a year from now when Los Angeles County's 27 controversial beach cameras are operational, no one's privacy will be invaded, the county's chief lifeguard said Wednesday. ``If we show any distinguishable feature of a person, we will lose the (federal) grant (used to pay for the system),'' Mike Frazer said. ``We're so confident that we're not invading any privacy, we're going to let the world see'' on a Web site. - City News Service Rapper's kin sue city over his death The family of Notorious B.I.G. has sued the city of Los Angeles
The civil rights and wrongful-death suit was filed in federal court Tuesday. Notorious B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was gunned down outside the Peterson Automotive Museum on March 9, 1997, after a music industry party. No one has been arrested for the 24-year-old rapper's slaying. - Associated Press |
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