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A local rapper has filed a $10-million claim against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after deputies pointed a handgun at the unarmed motorist while warning him he would get "one to the chest" during a tense confrontation on New Year's Eve.Darral Scott, also known as Feezy Lebron, alleges in the claim that the deputies used unlawful force to illegally detain him and search him and his car, and threatened to kill him, leaving him traumatized, unable to sleep and suffering panic attacks.

Police shot a person in South Los Angeles on Tuesday, marking the second such incident in two days.According to KCBS-TV Channel 2, officers shot someone after they responded to a call for help.Officer Mike Lopez, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson, told The Times that the incident occurred in the area of East 28th Street and South Central Avenue, but he declined to clarify and said he couldn't immediately answer follow-up questions, including how officers were involved and whether anyone was injured or killed.

The top brass within the Los Angeles County Probation Department hastily moved children out of Central Juvenile Hall not for reasons of safety but to avoid political embarrassment, according to a report released Friday from a county watchdog.The report from the county's Office of Inspector General, which acts as an investigatory arm for the Board of Supervisors, analyzed the motivations behind the Probation Department's chaotic transfer in mid-March of roughly 140 youths from Central Juvenile Hall in Lincoln Heights, days ahead of a scheduled state inspection of the facility, to the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar.

An Arizona man having a morning coffee was fatally attacked on Friday by a male black bear that caught him unaware and dragged him down an embankment before a neighbor shot and killed it, officials said.A preliminary investigation by the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office determined that Steven Jackson, 66, of Tucson, had been sitting at a table on his property in the Groom Creek area south of Prescott where he was building a home, the office said in a statement.

Gurnee police used pepper spray and called for reinforcements from other departments to break up a fight between two groups Monday at the Six Flags Great America theme park.Six people, including three juveniles, were taken into custody following the fight, which happened around 7:15 p.m. Witnesses told police that two groups of people began fighting near the front entrance to the park, and that the altercation then spilled into a parking lot.

Five people were arrested early Wednesday morning after police saw them attempting to rob a victim on a CTA Red Line train in the South Loop neighborhood, Chicago police said.Shortly after 3 a.m., officers saw an attempted robbery involving five individuals on a train in the 1100 block of South State Street.

A Chicago Fire Department spokesman said stink spray sent three children to the hospital Thursday morning, and 13 were evaluated at the scene.Around 10:15 a.m., an EMS Plan 1 was called at Fairfield Elementary located at 6201 S. Fairfield Ave., after stink spray was deployed into the air on the playground, spokesman Larry Langford said.

Dub Nation - come out to Thrive City for the Golden State Warriors Playoffs Watch Party, presented by Chase.When the Warriors are on the road, enjoy lawn games and our sport court, special guests and entertainers, and cheer on the Dubs while we broadcast the game on the plaza board!All Chase cardholders can show their Chase credit or debit card to access the Chase Lounge for a VIP experience and receive an exclusive giveaway (while supplies last).

Dub Nation - come out to Thrive City for the Golden State Warriors Playoffs Watch Party, presented by Chase.When the Warriors are on the road, enjoy lawn games and our sport court, special guests and entertainers, and cheer on the Dubs while we broadcast the game on the plaza board!All Chase cardholders can show their Chase credit or debit card to access the Chase Lounge for a VIP experience and receive an exclusive giveaway (while supplies last).

A winking witness nicknamed Del Boy has been extradited from Spain to face justice over a jury nobbling plot.Laurence Hayden, 54, appeared at the Old Bailey on Thursday after being brought back to the UK over a bungled scheme to tamper with a drug kingpin's trial in 2018.He was one of a team of stooges recruited by Leslie Allen, 66, to help him get off charges of having 150,000 of cannabis and cocaine, and pepper spray.

A drugs kingpin, a nobbled juror, his mother, a one-legged mechanic and a winking witness called Del Boy are facing jail for attempting to fix a trial.Leslie Allen, 66, recruited a team of stooges to help him get off charges of having 150,000 of cannabis and cocaine and a pepper spray in 2018.The plot backfired after other jurors in the Warwick Crown Court case became suspicious of juror Damien Drackley's behaviour as they deliberated on verdicts.

Automotive company Rezvani Motors has launched a car with security features including electrified door handles and pepper spray-emitting wing mirrors that are more commonly found on military vehicles or in video games."The Rezvani Vengeance is the world's most aggressive and most capable three-row SUVs," said the Californian brand.

Brianne Chapman protests outside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., Friday, during the sentencing hearing for Julian Khater and George Tanios.Khater pleaded guilty to assaulting Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray on Jan 6, 2021.Jose Luis Magana/AP A rioter who assaulted law enforcement officers with an unknown chemical spray outside the Capitol Building during the Jan. 6 riot was sentenced to 80 months in prison Friday with credit for time served.

A World Where We Are Known and Loved: Shelley Wong's As She Appears
There is the particular feeling of being at the beach on a partly cloudy day.The wind threatens to pick up; the colors of beach accouterments stand out brighter; the ocean sprinkles with a heightened crisp.Your place in the world is at the edge of both unsettled and renewal.

San Francisco supervisors voted on Tuesday to put the brakes on a controversial policy that would have let police use robots for deadly force just days after their approval of the plan generated fierce pushback.he Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to explicitly ban the use of robots in such a fashion for now.

H undreds of activists called for President Xi to resign outside London's Chinese Embassy as public outcry against the Chinese Communist Partys (CCP's) strict zero Covid policy spreads across the world.The crowds, mostly formed of young people, many with megaphones, chanted CCP! Step down! and held up banners calling for President Xi to step down on Sunday evening.