On 06 Mar 2022, Mike Flannigan <mflannigan@jam.rr.com> posted some
news:t03b1u$277o4$93@news.freedyn.de:

> There's a nigger mayor in LA now, what else would you expect?

A judge has ordered the Los Angeles Police Department to get rid of
photographs of legal documents that officers allegedly took during an
unannounced raid on the home of an attorney representing a prominent Black
Lives Matter activist.

The attorney, Dermot Givens, said roughly a dozen Los Angeles police
officers descended on his townhouse on Tuesday, ordering him to stand
outside as they executed a warrant.

When he went back inside, Givens said he saw an officer photographing
documents left on his kitchen table related to a lawsuit filed against the
department on behalf of Melina Abdullah, the co-founder of the Los Angeles
chapter of Black Lives Matter.

Abdullah has alleged officers violated her civil rights in 2020 by forcing
her out of her home at gunpoint after receiving a hoax call about a
hostage situation there.

The papers photographed by police contained �portions of Mr. Given�s case
file, and potentially attorney work product� related to Abdullah�s case,
according to an application in Los Angeles County Superior Court
requesting that police destroy or return the materials and provide a copy
of the warrant used to justify the search.

On Friday, Judge Rupert Byrdsong granted that request. Givens said he had
not received confirmation from the LAPD or any information about the
warrant as of Saturday.

A police spokesperson said the department was conducting an internal
investigation and declined to provide further details about the search.
�This is an open criminal investigation as well as an internal affairs
investigation,� the spokesperson, Capt. Kelly Muniz, said by phone.

According to Givens, police said they were responding to a GPS tracker
located near his home as part of their search for a young man named Tyler.
After surrounding the townhouse with guns drawn, officers in tactical gear
�ransacked� his house, he said, emptying drawers, opening his safe, and
rifling through his briefcase.

Givens said he had lived in the house for more than two decades and did
not know anyone who matched the name and description of the person police
claimed to be looking for. The raid was first reported Friday night by the
Los Angeles Times.

The attorney alleged that it was latest instance of harassment from the
LAPD for his work on behalf of clients who are suing the department. He
said police "know exactly who I am and where I live� and they're lying if
the say otherwise.

Givens is currently representing Abdullah in her lawsuit against the LAPD
for their response to a �swatting incident� at her home in 2020, which
involved officers surrounding her house and ordering her and her children
to come outside through a loudspeaker.

She has alleged that police used the prank call, which was carried out by
teenagers, as pretext to �terrorize� her for her role in organizing
protests following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in
2020.

Los Angeles police have not commented on officers' actions at Abdullah�s
home, citing the pending litigation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/after-la-police-raid-home-of-black-
lives-matter-attorney-a-judge-orders-photographs-destroyed/ar-BB1hme09