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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he’s sending 120 Highway Patrol officers to Oakland under a new state law enforcement campaign targeting an uptick in violent crime and theft that has placed political pressure on politicians, divided Democrats and bolstered criticism of California’s criminal justice policies. Newsom’s decision to bolster police presence in Oakland comes amid a barrage of recent headlines on the city’s crime rates, business closures and campaigns to oust the city’s mayor and Alameda County’s…

Jesse Dominguez had the same aspirations many in Los Angeles do: to be an actor. And he shared the same struggles too: substance use issues, a serious mental health disorder and homelessness.On Sunday afternoon, while in what his family said must have been a mental health episode or drug-fueled crisis, Dominguez was shot and killed by a California Highway Patrol officer following a struggle on the 105 Freeway in Watts near the sober living facility where he lived. CHP officials said that during the altercation, Dominguez…

Video recorded by a bystander appears to show a deadly encounter in which a California Highway Patrol officer repeatedly shoots a man after a struggle in the middle of the 105 Freeway in Watts on Sunday afternoon.The CHP confirmed Monday that a shooting took place on the freeway but did not provide further details. The Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office said Monday the person had died, though it did not provide identification, pending notification of family. A cause of death was not released.CHP officials said…

California has agreed to pay $24 million to the family of a man who died after yelling “I can’t breathe” as officers pinned him to the ground and tried to draw his blood following a traffic stop, attorneys for the family said Wednesday.The deadly encounter in March 2020 came just months before the police killing of George Floyd, who uttered the same phrase to Minneapolis officers more than 20 times. Video of the final moments of Edward Bronstein in a California Highway Patrol maintenance yard in Altadena, however, would…

Seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse were charged with manslaughter Wednesday in connection with the death of a man who screamed, “I can’t breathe!,” as they tried to draw blood from him, prosecutors said.Edward Bronstein was suspected of driving while intoxicated in 2020 when he was apprehended and later died in CHP custody at the agency’s Altadena station.The six officers and a sergeant who filmed the deadly encounter with Bronstein were charged with involuntary manslaughter and assault under color of…

A California Highway Patrol captain on leave in Tennessee was found dead of a gunshot wound days after an arrest in the fatal shooting of her husband in Kentucky and her own arrest on suspicion of trespassing at his girlfriend’s house, police reports obtained by The Times show.Julie Harding, 49, was found dead Saturday in a home in a rural area near the Kentucky border, said CHP spokesman Sgt. Jeremy Wayland. Her death comes two days after a Napa, Calif., man was arrested in connection with the October slaying of her…