LBPD INVESTIGATING HALLOWEEN NIGHT ASSAULT AS POSSIBLE HATE CRIME
By LBReport.com
LBReport.com has learned that a Halloween-night assault (Oct. 31) in the area of 4th Street and Cherry Ave. is being actively investigated by Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) violent crimes detectives as a possible hate crime.
LBPD Public Information Officer Nancy Pratt tells LBReport.com that on Oct. 31 at roughly 8:10 p.m., LBPD responded to a battery call in the area of 4th and Cherry.
The LBPD provided the following information:
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What about Zerby’s “human dignity”?
….. 4th + Cherry “The Long Beach Police Department will continue to work with community groups, the City’s Hate Crime Response Team and the Human Dignity Coordinator to address concerns from the victims and the community.”
seen this?
“A former Los Angeles police officer working in Spokane, Wash., was convicted by a federal jury Wednesday of using excessive force in the beating of a mentally ill man who died after being struck with batons, hogtied, shocked and smothered.
The officer, Karl F. Thompson Jr., was convicted of civil rights violations and obstruction charges stemming from what federal authorities called an “extensive cover-up” within the Spokane Police Department after the 2006 incident.
The victim, Otto Zehm, 36, who was developmentally disabled and taking medication for schizophrenia, was accosted by the officer in a convenience store after being suspected, wrongly, of taking money from a nearby ATM.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/police-beating-excessive-force-thompson-zehm-spokane.html
It doesn’t matter how much LBPD does right, or well, or properly, there will always be some in our community who can ever bring themselves to acknowledge it.
This is but one clear difference between those who are willing to consider events critically and comprehensively, and those who seem only interested in complaining.