William Scott

Los Angeles Police Department

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Deputy chief of the LAPD’s South Bureau

William Scott on KCRW

Yesterday, there was standing room only at the Hamilton United Methodist Church in South Los Angeles, where  City Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson had called an "emergency meeting."

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With LAPD Chief William Parker as their general, soldiers exacted swift and often brutal justice in black neighborhoods.

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With LAPD Chief William Parker as their general, soldiers exacted swift and often brutal justice in black neighborhoods.

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