Thread: LAPD Station Evacuated After Threat

LAPD's Rampart station evacuated following threat connected to officer-involved shooting [Updated]

September 28, 2010 | 2:32 pm

The Los Angeles Police Department evacuated its Rampart Area station Tuesday after an envelope containing an unknown powder was found at the station.

The envelope contained a threat directed at one of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant earlier this month in the Westlake District, according to sources familiar with the incident who asked not to be identified because the investigation is ongoing. The nature of the threat was not specified.

[Updated at 2:34 p.m.: Officials said they determined the white powder was not hazardous.]

Nearly a dozen people may have been exposed to the powder around 1 p.m. at the station at 1401 S. 6th Street, according to police officials.

Manuel Jamines was shot and killed Sept. 5 at the corner of 6th and Union Avenue after police said he advanced on officers with a knife.

The LAPD said that Jamines was threatening people before the fatal confrontation. Residents and the LAPD agree that Jamines was intoxicated at the time of the shooting and witnesses said he had a knife. Another witness has questioned that account and whether the man represented an imminent threat to the officers.

The shooting led to protests, the largest of which took place days after the incident when about 300 protesters gathered at the LAPD's Rampart Station, some hurling eggs at police cars and others throwing objects at station windows.
Los Angeles city prosecutors have said they expect to charge more than a dozen people in the series of street protests in the Westlake district related to the shooting.

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This is terrorism against the people and government of America!

W

The Illegals are showing their true colors,and our Congress just cannot wait to give them all amnesty. Many of these people are animals In a human skin. They could care less about this country. They want all of the benefits,but no responsibility for any of their actions. Our own government has created a monster,and If they do not stop this NOW,It Is going to get much much worse. The pot Is boiling,and something has got to give.... TS

ska-rew them. the elections will shut this bs game down, let the illegals wind themselfs into a knot. THEY GOTTA GO!

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

This is terrorism against the people and government of America!

W

I agree, can't wait to see where this leads! I hope this news makes it out of Cali, but somehow I doubt it will.

Suspicious envelope prompts evacuation of LAPD station; substance determined harmless


Sept. 28, 2010 | KPCC Wire Services | KPCC

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An envelope containing white powder prompted a hazardous-materials response at the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Station today, but the substance turned out to be harmless.

The scare was reported shortly before 1 p.m., with about 10 people believed to have been exposed.

Police initially had little to say about the scare, which came in the wake of demonstrations over the officer-involved shooting death of a Guatemalan day laborer, but did send an LAPD spokeswoman to the station at 1401 Sixth St.

An LAPD spokersperson said it was not known whether the envelope was mailed to the station.

Sgt. Mitzi Grasso later confirmed the substance was talcum powder. She said the station was evacuated, but the whole incident was over in about an hour.

The envelope was addressed to the secretary, Grasso said, adding nothing about the envelope was menacing.

"Fortunately, it turned out to be a small incident,'' she said.


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