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TARZANA >> Los Angeles police responded to Chris Brown’s residence in Tarzana Tuesday and later served a search warrant on the home as the singer took to social media to deny any wrongdoing and to condemn police. At a news conference Tuesday afteoon, LAPD Lt. Chris Ramirez said police were serving a search warrant on the home, and an unknown number of people were exiting the residence. The house is located in a posh, hillside neighborhood of one-and two-story homes that are nearly all protected by locked iron gates. A call initially came at 3:11 a.m. from the 5000 block of Corbin Avenue, police said earlier. “It came out as a female requesting help,” Officer Drake Madison of LAPD’s Me...

Investigators are exploring a gang coection to a house party in Granadau2009Hills, where rapper Kid Cali was shot and killed, the Losu2009Angeles Police Department said Monday. “There is definitely some sort of gang coection to this case, but I don’t know if Kid Cali was involved, whether it was the party or the participants,” LAPD’s Operations-Valley Bureau Homicide Detective Richard Moakley said. • PHOTOS: Rapper Kid Cali — candids and crime scene pictures Investigators have seized what may be a key piece of evidence. “We have a grainy video and may be able to ... get a picture of the shooter,” Moakley said, noting that if they are able to pull a photo from the video, it will be released ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Protective League today demanded that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the Rams, pay the full cost for necessary police services to ensure public safety at the team’s home games as long as it plays at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. “The estimated cost to provide police protection at Ram games is approximately $2 million a year,” LAPPL spokesman Dustin DeRollo said. “Thus far the Rams have not agreed to pay their fair share of policing costs and this will drain police coverage in other areas of our city,” DeRollo said. “The LAPPL is also urging Mayor Eric Garcetti to reject any requests for sweetheart deals funded by the taxpayers for the NFL team.” ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Protective League today demanded today that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Rams, pay the full cost for necessary police services to ensure public safety at L.A. Rams home games as long as the team plays in Los Angeles. “The estimated cost to provide police protection at Ram games is approximately $2 million a year,” LAPPL spokesman Dustin DeRollo said in a statement. “Thus far the Rams have not agreed to pay their fair share of policing costs, and this will drain police coverage in other areas of our city,” DeRollo said. “The LAPPL is also urging Mayor Eric Garcetti to reject any requests for sweetheart deals funded by the taxpayer...

LOS ANGELES — An investigation continued today into an exchange of gunfire in Watts that left an 18-year-old suspect dead and police officer wounded at the Nickerson Gardens public housing project. The shooting was reported about 11 p.m. Monday at 112th and Antwerp streets, according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Norma Eisenman. Richard Risher, of the San Beardino County community of Apple Valley, died at the scene, said coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter. Police described the confrontation as a ruing gun battle, but Risher’s mother said her son was unarmed and ruing away from officer when he was shot. “He didn’t have nothing,” Lisa Simpson told Fox11. “He was ruing and he put h...

Some might view it as a store for troubling times, filled with tactical gear and accessories for police and the military. And built around the slogan, “Always be ready.” But the 5.11 Tactical shop that celebrated its grand opening Saturday in Carson — its first retail store in the Los Angeles area but ninth overall — is actually more than that. Dozens of local police officers and military persoel were on hand for the ceremony, which was preceded by a presentation of flags by the Sunburst Youth Academy Color Guard. Then “Criminal Minds” star Joe Mantegna, the brand’s ambassador, demonstrated — Chuck Norris-style — knocking down a locked door with a battering ram ,the tactical equivalent to c...

Lawyers for the city of Los Angeles won a round in court Friday when a judge ruled that a former Harbor Division training officer for LAPD Officer Christopher Doer is not entitled to view all of the investigative reports and persoel records involving the late rogue officer. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Ste said the motion for the release of documents filed by attoeys for Sgt. Teresa Evans was supported by arguments that contained too much “hearsay, speculation, supposition and assumption.” The judge cited a swo declaration offered by one of Evans’ attoeys, Leila K. Al Faiz, which he said had more lines stating “upon information and belief’’ than he had ever seen in such a docume...

LAPD Detective Brent Hopkins was finishing up some reports late Thursday night, writing up why some of the suspects taken into custody should be exonerated and kept out of jail, when he could hear sniper fire and panicked voices. Inside the West LA Area police station where he works, he saw the images flash across a television screen. Officers were down in Dallas. Someone was purposely shooting at them. Just then, a call came into the station. A robbery. A bad person doing something to a good person, Hopkins thought. “When that robbery call went out, everyone still went out to that,” Hopkins, 37, said. “Even with this very heated atmosphere, I still see all of my coworkers showing up for wo...

West Coast rappers The Game and Snoop Dogg arrived in downtown Los Angeles Friday moing, expecting to simply hold a protest over the deaths of black men at the hands of police. But their day took an unexpected tu when the longtime friends were invited into LAPD headquarters by police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Eric Garcetti for an impromptu mini-summit on race and policing. What emerged was a new coalition focused on reducing violence. Compton native The Game, whose birth name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, implored the public to “save each other’s lives” at an emotional press conference following the meeting. In an unlikely pairing, the city’s top officials -- both white -- and two of Southe...

Longtime friends The Game and Snoop Dogg both woke up Friday moing deeply troubled by the recent deaths of black men at the hands of police officers. They headed downtown to lead a peaceful march outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters. Then the day took an unexpected tu, when the famous rappers were invited to a small LAPD conference room for a mini-summit on race and policing with Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Eric Garcetti. • PHOTOS: Snoop Dogg and The Game march to LAPD headquarters in wake of police shootings, meet with mayor and police chief Emerging from the room after about 30 minutes, the foursome aounced plans for a new group focused on reducing violen...

The two candidates hoping to replace retiring Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich honed in on their differences Wednesday as both get set to focus on a campaign that began with eight contenders. Kathryn Barger, the top aid to Antonovich, and Darrell Park, an entrepreneur, plan different strategies to win the seat for the 5th District, which spans more than 2,800 square miles, including the Antelope, Santa Clarita and parts of the San Feando and San Gabriel valleys. Antonovich has held the seat for 36 years. Barger, who raised $1.2 million before the June 6 primary election, is banking on experience, name recognition, and support from various unions. She topped the field with...

The SUV that killed “Star Trek” actor Anton Yelchin was being recalled because the gear shifters have confused drivers, causing the vehicles to roll away unexpectedly. Los Angeles police say Yelchin died when his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee rolled down his driveway early Sunday. The SUV pied the 27-year-old against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence. Fiat Chrysler, which makes Jeeps, said in a statement Monday that it’s investigating and it’s premature to speculate on the cause of the crash. It offered sympathies to Yelchin’s friends and family. Most 2015 model year Grand Cherokees were part of a global recall of 1.1 million vehicles aounced by Fiat Chrysler in April. The U.S. Nationa...