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7 Apr, 6 tweets, 4 min read
NEW: A witness just gave me this video of the crash at the end of the murder suspect pursuit in Pomona. I haven’t been able to talk directly to the big rig driver yet, but I yelled to him and asked if he blocked the truck on purpose and he shook his head “no”. @FOXLA
BREAKING: Wildest moment of my 4 years in LA. @abc7leanne and I just interviewed the female in the pursuit vehicle who police let go. She says the driver is her friend from Bakersfield, says she didn’t know he’s wanted for murder. She was like a celebrity w/ the crowd. @FOXLA Image
Full story, all the crazy video, and this wild interview tonight at 10pm on @FOXLA. I’ll be live here in Pomona.
Here is a look at the male pursuit driver who police tell us is wanted for murder. @FOXLA Image
.@abc7leanne and I asked the female pursuit passenger when the police started chasing them.
“From Temecula, bitch”, she responds.
She basically held a press conference for the crowd once police let her go. We’ll show it tonight at 10 on @FOXLA
BREAKING: Just talked to the big rig truck driver who ended the pursuit. He says he DID purposefully end the pursuit by ramming the truck. Says he knew it was a murder suspect and he tracked him, lined his truck up, and took him out! Brave man! Name is Ahmed Shabaan. @FOXLA Image

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BREAKING: Sources in the LA County DA Office's Hardcore Gangs unit tell me they were just informed by upper management during a 4pm meeting that their unit is being downsized. Two weeks ago, I reported that DA Gascon was planning to do this. @FOXLA
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Sources tell me management is saying Gascon wants to "reimagine" the unit and make it more community based. I'm told management hasn't answered them on how big the downsizing will be/when it will happen, but the unit will be renamed because administration doesn't like it. @FOXLA
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(1/5) TONIGHT: L.A. DA George Gascon recently touted that he stopped 77 juvenile cases from going to adult court. One is Jalen Yoakum's, a Main Street Mafia Crip who murdered an innocent man at age 17. Now age 20, he has continued to post his gang allegiances from juvie. @FOXLA
(2/5) Yoakum has a lengthy criminal history going back to when he was 12. He also recorded himself practicing drive by shootings by shooting a homeless man in the face with a paintball gun. He was in process of being transferred to adult court, then Gascon took office. @FOXLA
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BREAKING: An elderly couple have been found stabbed to death at a home in Altadena. Woman was on a live Zoom call when 911 caller witnessed her being kidnapped by an assailant. When LASD got on scene, male dead in driveway, woman dead inside. One person detained. @FOXLA ImageImage
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(1/3) TONIGHT: On LA DA George Gascon's first full day in office, he dropped a felony case against three anti-police protesters charged w/ trying to derail a train while protesting at the Compton LASD station on 11/15. Gascon said he did so "in the interest of justice". @FOXLA
(2/3) But I've obtained unreleased surveillance video that clearly shows two of the protesters dragging a metal barricade onto the train tracks, & a jail call recording of one protester boasting that his attorney, a friend & campaign donor of Gascon's, "has Gascon's ear". @FOXLA
(3/3) Tonight at 10pm, we will broadcast the video and audio, and the veteran prosecutor who was handling the case is going public. He was reprimanded & transferred after he questioned Gascon's order to drop the case, an order he says went against his ethical standards. @FOXLA
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NEW: Several sources within the LA D.A.'s office tell me that D.A. George Gascon is planning to dissolve or severely downsize their Hardcore Gangs unit. The unit handles the most complex & heinous gang related crimes in LA & is one of the oldest in the LA D.A.'s office. @FOXLA
I interviewed two prosecutors in the Hardcore Gangs unit tonight. They tell me they have been told they will be dissolved as early as April, and that such a decision would be a "disaster". But a BLM activist I spoke with praised Gascon, saying he's listening to community. @FOXLA
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