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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    LAPD’s Live Event with ex-Mexican Mafia Member

    Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck has apologized for a strange event this week that his department helped organize. Imprisoned ex-Mexican Mafia leader Rene “Boxer” Enriquez gave a lecture to a business group called the Young President’s Organization.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jan 30, 2015 • 1 min read

    Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck has apologized for a strange event this week that his department helped organize. Imprisoned ex-Mexican Mafia leader Rene “Boxer” Enriquez gave a lecture to a business group called the Young President’s Organization. The police provided Enriquez, who’s serving a life sentence in prison for murder, with an escort to a secure downtown location, shutting down streets along the way. Was it a misuse of LAPD resources, as some are now claiming?

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    The full episode

    3 of 5
    Pre-Super Bowl Scandals, A Non-Scandal Scandal and a Sundance Roundup
    1. 0:00Deflated Balls and the Super Bowl
    2. 10:43NFL Concussions
    3. 18:22LAPD’s Live Event with ex-Mexican Mafia MemberYou’re reading this
    4. 25:43Film Roundup, Sundance Edition
    5. 41:54The Start-Up That Followed the Rules (and Failed)
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