Ezell Ford

LAPD Officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas are suing the city of Los Angeles, contending they have faced “racial discrimination” in the aftermath of the August 11, 2014, shooting that took the life of Ezell Ford.

On August 11 Black Lives Matter protesters erupted at the mention of “black-on-black killings” and shut down the weekly Los Angeles Police Commission meeting.

On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times took a swipe at Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, claiming that his exit to Washington D.C. on a trip largely revolving around a fund-raiser just as the Police Commission meeting was considering the police shooting

Craig Lally, the head of the L.A. police union, angered a public meeting Tuesday evening by referring to Ezell Ford, who was shot by police last year, as a “known gang member.”

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti woke up on Sunday to a gaggle of “Black Lives Matters” protesters and a mosaic of remember Ezell Ford placards.

The Los Angeles police department’s investigative watchdog commission determined that two white police officers were justified in fatally shooting a 25-year-old black man, Ezell Ford, on August 11 2014.

California continues to simmer with protests decrying excessive police force across the state.

About ten protesters showed up for a planned protest of Pasadena’s annual Tournament of Roses Parade with signs and a banner heralding the name and image of Ezell Ford and others who have died in confrontations with police, along with the declaration “#BlackLivesMatter.”

Protesters plan to ring in the New Year in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Pasadena, California as #BlackLivesMatter and Occupy movement activists have laid out a busy night, as well as demonstrations on New Years’ Day at Pasadena’s annual Tournament of Roses parade.

Los Angeles, California–Monday responding to the Ezell Ford autopsy report, the Ford family attorney said that the officers involved in the fatal shooting of the black 25-year-old were “animalistic” during the altercation.

A peaceful protest turned hostile after an autopsy was released yesterday for Ezell Ford, a 25-year old mentally ill black man killed in a confrontation with a police officer last August. That autopsy report  showed Ford  was shot three times, in his right

The autopsy report for Ezell Ford was released by the Los Angeles Police department on Monday and, according Police Chief Charlie Beck, corroborates the accounts given by LAPD officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villages.

Only two days after Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, another black man was fatally shot in Los Angeles by police officers. Still more than four months after the August 11 shooting occurred, the autopsy report has not been released.