Skid Row activist
Skid Row activist
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Jeff Page
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
A Shooting on Skid Row Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a homeless man known as “Africa” yesterday on Skid Row. The incident was captured on video by a bystander, and while the footage shows a violent struggle in the moments before shots were fired, it’s not clear exactly why the incident turned deadly. The police department says the victim tried to take one of the officers’ guns. But even before all the details are known, the incident is stoking long-simmering tension between the Skid Row community and the LAPD. We get an update on the situation and hear from an activist on the scene.
Which Way, L.A.?
New Homeless Initiative: Will It Finally Be Effective? For years, the city and county have cycled through plans to help the homeless population of Los Angeles, many of whom live in Downtown’s Skid Row. The latest proposal is getting higher marks -- even from some critics who say conditions never seem to improve for the city’s homeless. The so-called $3.7M Operation Healthy Streets program is the latest effort to bring the city and county of LA together to work on this issue. Tonight, city and county representatives are discussing the next steps -- but are the voices of Skid Row locals being heard? And will this new plan stick?
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Is California About to Execute an Innocent Man? In part one of a two-part interview, 33-year death row inmate Kevin Cooper—also an artist of exhibited works and a published author—describes his fight to prove his innocence of a heinous murder and asks why Gov. Brown refuses testing that could prove his innocence, identify the real killer and prove he was framed.