Lil Nas X was arrested Thursday morning in Los Angeles, according L.A. County Sheriff inmate records. He is being held at the L.A. Police Department’s Valley Jail section in Van Nuys. The Grammy-winning rapper, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, was hospitalized for a possible overdose after charging at …
Read More »Lil Nas X Hospitalized for Possible Overdose After Roaming L.A. Streets and Charging at Police
Lil Nas was hospitalized for a possible overdose after charging at officers in Studio City in the early hours of Thursday morning. The rapper was handcuffed before being transported to a local hospital. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Rolling Stone that a naked man was found walking down …
Read More »Lawsuit Against DHS Reveals Pattern of Excessive Force Against Journalists
This story is being published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. In the weeks since President Donald Trump targeted American cities for “the single largest Mass Deportation Program in history” and deployed U.S. troops to the streets of Los Angeles, federal and local law enforcement officers have …
Read More »Jillian Lauren, Wife of Weezer Bassist, Pleads Not Guilty to Charges in LAPD Shooting
Bestselling author Jillian Lauren, who is the wife ofWeezerbassistScott Shriner, pled not guilty to charges stemming from the Los Angeles Police Department officer-involved shooting thatleft her woundedoutside of their homein Eagle Rock on April 8. According to The Los Angeles Times, Lauren, 51, pleaded not guilty to felony charges on …
Read More »Inside the Battle for the Soul of the LAPD
A bove all, he remembers the boots the cops wore when they kicked down the door of his mom’s apartment. They yanked him out of bed and a deep sleep, 12 gang cops in riot gear searching the room of a tall-for-his-age 10-year-old named Tionne Tisdale. “Where is it?” they …
Read More »What Really Happened With the L.A. Fire Department Budgets?
A white picket fence stands with untouched roses. Six feet away, a home is gone. The decimation caused by the Palisades and Eaton fires is catastrophic and abnormal, and Los Angeles is grieving loss unlike ever before. As several wildfires erupted across the city on Jan. 7, with fierce Santa …
Read More »PnB Rock Murder Suspect Allegedly Torched Getaway Car in Botched Cover-Up
When celebrated Philadelphia rapper PnB Rock was gunned down inside a Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘N Waffles in South Los Angeles last year, speculation about the shooter — and his getaway driver — exploded online. Now, in legal documents obtained by Rolling Stone, new details have emerged in the slaying …
Read More »'Bosch: Legacy' Is Still Rock Solid Dad TV
In an upcoming episode of Bosch: Legacy Season Two, private investigator Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch (Titus Welliver) asks a favor of a couple of colleagues from his days as an LAPD homicide detective. Their exchange is terse and extremely one-sided in favor of the self-righteous Bosch. As he walks away, Christina …
Read More »'Biggie & Tupac' Director Admits Doc Got Tupac's Murder Wrong
The arrest of Duane “Keefe D” Davis, a former Southside Crips gang leader, in the murder of Tupac Shakur on Sept. 29, over 27 years after the legendary rapper’s killing in Las Vegas, sent shockwaves across the world. For over a decade, Keefe D had confessed that he’d ordered the …
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