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Man Imprisoned for Starting Huge LA Blaze over Police Killings |
2017-04-25 |
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] A 58-year-old man who started a massive fire in Los Angeles in anger over police killings of African-Americans was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Monday following a plea deal. Dawud Abdulwali admitted to starting the December 2014 blaze at the unfinished seven-storey downtown Da Vinci apartment complex, causing damages in excess of $100 million, the prosecutor’s office said. No one was injured in the spectacular fire that charred the complex that was being built along a freeway. According to witness testimony, Abdulwali bragged about setting the fire as a response to protests that swept the town of Ferguson, in Missouri, following the shooting of a black teenager and other highly publicized cases of alleged police misconduct toward African-Americans. Michael Brown’s 2014 shooting in Ferguson by a white police officer sparked weeks of unrest and ignited a national debate ... an expenditure of personal wind at the national level that leads to face-making and other histrionics but can't be shown to have ever solved an issue ... about race relations and law enforcement in the United States. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 That sounds like a Jimmy Buffett song, Deacon Blues. ;-) |
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-04-25 13:28 |
#1 I spent four lonely days in a huge L. A. blaze. |
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2017-04-25 07:44 |