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The struggle continues.. It’s worth asking whether LA’s Mayor Karen Bass is still a communist as we try to understand her odd, defensive behavior regarding the ongoing wildfires in her city, also her ill-timed trip to Ghana when the possibility of these fires was already predicted. I recalled she was an admirer of Fidel Castro, but had forgotten how recent her fulsome praise was, less than a decade ago. From left-leaning Politico August 2020 : “Rep. Karen Bass on Sunday walked back 2016 comments praising Cuban leader Fidel Castro, as scrutiny of her views toward the Communist government threatened her...

Funeral Services for Daryl F. Gates April 27, 2010 6:30 AM to 12 PM General Info The following is a list of street closures with affected times: Full Closures between 6:30 AM and Noon for funeral service: -Temple Street between Broadway and Grand Avenue -Hill Street between Temple and Ord Streets, and all of Hill Place Local Access Only (Court employees) -Hill Street between 1st and Temple Streets Intermittent Temporary Street Closures between 8:00 and 9:00 AM for the procession: -1st Street between Main and Hill Streets -Broadway between 2nd and Judge John Aiso Streets Suggested detour routes are as...

<p>LOS ANGELES – Daryl F. Gates, the polarizing former police chief whose 14-year tenure ended amid widespread criticism over his department's response to the city's deadly 1992 riots, died Friday after a short bout with cancer. He was 83.</p> <p>Gates died at his Dana Point home with his family at his side, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a revised statement. Initially, the LAPD said Gates died in Newport Beach.</p>

Daryl F. Gates, the rookie cop who rose from driver for a legendary chief to become chief himself, leading the Los Angeles Police Department during a turbulent 14-year period that found him struggling to keep pace with a city undergoing dramatic racial and ethnic changes, has died, the LAPD announced Friday. He was 83.

LOS ANGELES - Police say former Los Angeles police Chief Daryl Gates, who resigned in the wake of the Rodney King beating, is seriously ill. Current Chief Charlie Beck told the city Police Commission Tuesday the 83-year-old Gates has a serious malady but provided no details.