On September 12, 2020, a gunman opened fire on two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies at the Willowbrook Blue Line Transit Station in Compton California.
The deputies were taken to the nearby St. Francis Medical Center in the neighboring city of Lynwood. Outside of the hospital, protestors gathered, not in support of the officers but in support of the community, chanting, “We hope they die.”
As we record this program, there have been no arrests in the case. Many residents assume that this attack on the police were in response to a series of recent police killings and to the decades of police containment and abuse against the black community of Compton and Los Angeles.
In this episode we talk with two community activists about the existence of gangs operating inside of the L.A. Sheriff's Department, the allegations that the recent killing of a black bicyclist was a gang initiation test and the "no comment" response of the black community to offers of "snitch money" in the case of the shooting of the 2 Sheriff's Deputies.
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