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The Kobe Bryant jersey that his brother used to stanch the bleeding was immediately soaked.
One man's eye 'exploded,' another lost eight teeth from LAPD projectiles fired at Lakers revelers: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
One man's eye 'exploded,' another lost eight teeth from LAPD projectiles fired at Lakers revelers: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
LAPD claim their crowd-control projectiles don't "penetrate the skin" and aren't fired at people's heads.
Recent events prove the first claim false and the latter true only in policy, not in practice.
William Gonzalez's eye exploded Sunday night.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
Recent events prove the first claim false and the latter true only in policy, not in practice.
William Gonzalez's eye exploded Sunday night.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
Dr. Linden Doss, one of Gonzalez's surgeons, told me the damage was so extensive it was as if Gonzalez had been struck by a bat and bitten by a dog all at once.
“These things should not be legal," Doss said of the LAPD's projectiles. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
“These things should not be legal," Doss said of the LAPD's projectiles. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
LAPD has agreed in past legal settlements to limit use of projectiles.
It is currently being sued for their use at summer protests.
Again after the Lakers win Sunday, people in the crowd were badly injured.
But LAPD maintains the weapons are necessary. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
It is currently being sued for their use at summer protests.
Again after the Lakers win Sunday, people in the crowd were badly injured.
But LAPD maintains the weapons are necessary. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
Previously unreported piece of info in this story is that, of the 76 people LAPD say they arrested as the Lakers celebration turned unruly:
- 1 was for vandalism
- 2 were for suspicion of assaulting officers
- 73 were for failure to disperse https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
- 1 was for vandalism
- 2 were for suspicion of assaulting officers
- 73 were for failure to disperse https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
In addition to Gonzalez, I talked to a second man who barely avoided a similar fate after a police projectile struck him in the face, too, giving him a laceration and orbital fracture.
A third man whose family spoke to me lost 8 teeth and part of his lip. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
A third man whose family spoke to me lost 8 teeth and part of his lip. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-15/lapd-projectiles-gruesome-injuries-lakers-celebration
