Archive for May, 2011

Men’s County Jail Visitor Viciously Beaten by Guards

May 29th, 2011

Shackled in handcuffs, Gabriel Carrillo was being detained in a small break room near the visitors’ lobby in Men’s Central Jail when, he says, a Sheriff’s deputy knocked him to the floor with an uppercut. Carrillo, 5 feet 6 and 160 pounds, doubled over in pain. Three depu… LA Weekly | News

The Mayor’s Budget

May 28th, 2011

Our annual Best of L.A. People issue inspired many readers to write glowingly about one or more of the subjects of that issue, or even to praise this rag. For all of that, we thank you. But we prefer a little blood on the flo… LA Weekly | News

Un-Gerrymandering Los Angeles

May 27th, 2011

For decades, except when the courts stepped in, entrenched California legislators drew up the electoral maps, creating bizarrely shaped, heavily gerrymandered voting districts that marched over mountain ranges and chopped neighborhoods to bits — all to ensure that the incum… LA Weekly | News