LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department will not change its immigration policies, despite pledges by President-elect Donald Trump to toughen the nation’s immigration laws and deport million of immigrants living in the country illegally, Police Chief Charlie Beck said in remarks reported Nov. 14. “I don’t intend on doing anything different,” Beck said…
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LOS ANGELES — The county Board of Supervisors voted Nov. 9 to pay out a total of $3.25 million to two mothers who alleged — in unrelated lawsuits — that deputies staged their young sons’ suicides to cover up fatal beatings in county jails. John Horton, 22, was found hanging in his cell in the…
Read moreLOS ANGELES — Retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., introduced a bill Nov. 15 that would scrap the Electoral College and determine the winner of presidential elections by the outcome of the popular vote. Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton currently leads the popular vote by nearly 1 million…
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