LAT's Gold jumps to Washington Post
Annual issue is out this weekJohn Hatfield contends that Chief William Bratton unduly influenced the LAPD Board of Rights that fired him. Hatfield is the officer who applied a flashlight to the head of auto theft suspect Stanley Miller after a 2004 foot chase in South L.A. and Compton. Based on what we saw on TV, other officers had Miller pretty much in custody while Hatfield bonked away.
Meanwhile: Strange post on the LAPD blog today. It describes the death in June of a man who was being transported by paramedics after being restrained by LAPD officers. Noi explanation for why it tops the department blog today.