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| Born | September 18, 1972 |
| Hometown | East Oakland |
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Black Lives Matter-L.A. criticizes reappoinment of LAPD Chief Michel Moore
- Leaders of the group described Mayor Karen Bass' support of the move as a betrayal.
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LAPD sued over 'swatting' incident at BLM leader's home
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Black Lives Matter exec accused of stealing $10M in lawsuit
Black Lives Matter (BLM) leaders on Friday sued an executive of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (GNF) on charges of syphoning $10 million in donations to the organization for use as his own “personal piggy bank.” Walter Mosley, an attorney representing BLM Grassroots — a separate entity from GNF — filed the lawsuit…
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Smith: How a 'defamatory' TV ad attacking Karen Bass could help her be L.A.'s next mayor
LAPD officers are behind some $2 million in ads to stop the congresswoman from becoming mayor. It should be a wake-up call for reluctant progressives.
- U.S.LA Times
Cal State L.A. president gets no-confidence vote after professor removed from debate
Outcry followed professor Melina Abdullah's forced removal from a mayoral debate at Cal State Los Angeles earlier this month.
- U.S.LA Times
Once again, LAPD upholds zero biased policing complaints against its officers
The Los Angeles Police Department in 2021 continued its yearslong streak of upholding zero complaints of biased policing by its officers, according to a new internal affairs report.
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Cal State L.A. faculty decry forced removal of professor and BLM leader from debate
Melina Abdullah, a Black Lives Matter-L.A. leader and tenured professor at Cal State L.A., was removed by police from Sunday's campus mayoral debate.
- U.S.The Root
BLM’s Melina Abdullah Forcibly Removed from Mayoral Debate by Police
Melina Abdullah, leader of Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles, was removed by California State Los Angeles campus police from a mayoral debate Sunday, reported The Los Angeles Times. Videos were caught of her being dragged outside the event by officers.
- U.S.LA Times
After cops remove activists, L.A. mayor candidates take on homelessness — and one another
In some ways, the evening was a retread of the last debate featuring the five candidates, with much of the criticism again trained on businessman Rick Caruso.
- U.S.LA Times
Police forcibly remove BLM-L.A. leader, a Cal State L.A. professor, from campus mayoral debate
Black Lives Matter-L.A. leader Melina Abdullah, a professor at Cal State Los Angeles, was forcibly removed by police officers from the mayoral debate on the campus.
- U.S.NBC News
BLM leaders spent $6 million on a mansion. Some supporters don't see a problem with that.
When Kulia Petzoldt first learned of George Floyd’s death in 2020, she and her teenage daughter ventured to Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, to protest
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Addresses Allegations Of Lavishly Spending Donation Money
Black Lives Matter has been under constant media scrutiny since its founding almost a decade ago.
