To Protect and Serve…sorta

Pommer said:

Nine brave and fearless LAPD officers were injured as a “containment vehicle” full of confiscated “commercial grade fireworks exploded. Several civilians also suffered minor injuries.

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Erm why are you taking the p.... Of the police in regard to this?

Wanted for questioning...



Hope the police and bystanders have a quick recovery

LAPD badly miscalculated weight of fireworks before South L.A. explosion, ATF finds

He said the agency was “absolutely certain” of its conclusions.

LAPD Chief Michel Moore ... said several members of the bomb squad have been removed from the team and will not be returning to it.

The June 30 explosion in the 700 block of East 27th Street, just days before the Fourth of July holiday, injured 17 people — including 10 LAPD officers, one ATF agent and six civilians — and damaged or destroyed 13 businesses, 22 residential properties and 37 vehicles, police have said.

The explosion displaced dozens of people, forcing them to move into hotel rooms paid for by the city as officials worked to clean up the mess. Many residents remain displaced, with some homes on the block deemed uninhabitable. Others have continued living in damaged homes.

Moore said members of the media and community activists were barred from attending the meeting because he didn’t want protesters and outsiders to disrupt it or make it hard for residents to get the information the police and ATF agents were there to provide.

Police officers checked people’s driver’s licenses at the doors of the All Peoples Community Center to see if they lived on the block, riling activists and some of the residents who wanted media members and activists to be allowed in.

It's been a small scandal here in LA (small in part because LAPD kept the media out of this meeting, small in part due to being in a part of the city easy to ignore). Some people are still unable to go back to their blowed up homes or damaged businesses.

You'd think things would be better a year and a half later. But it looks like many of the displaced resident didn't trust the city's plans to repair their houses, lawyered up, and everything's gone into limbo. The city's getting tired of it, and is pushing the residents to do something, so they can stop paying to put them up in a very nice hotel downtown.

L.A. wants to evict families living in luxury hotel since botched 2021 fireworks detonation​

Nineteen months have passed since Los Angeles police blew up a South L.A. neighborhood while detonating a cache of fireworks, but many of the displaced families still haven’t returned. For them, “home” is 20 rooms in a luxury hotel paid for by the city.

City officials blame unresponsive residents and their foot-dragging legal counsel for delays in getting the families relocated or back into their houses. Attorneys fault insurance companies and L.A. officials. Residents point the finger at the city. And homes along the street remain boarded up. Empty.

But with a hotel bill that has run to $2.1 million, city officials say it’s time for the holdouts to check out.

The illegal fireworks were found at the home of Arturo Ceja III, who pleaded guilty in federal court to unlicensed transport of explosives from Nevada to California. In October, he was sentenced to five months in prison and two years of supervised relief. Ceja was not fined and will pay no restitution, the U.S. attorney’s office said.