Revealed: how LAPD targeted Nipsey Hussle’s street corner and store
7 November 2021
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7 November 2021
The Los Angeles police department targeted the late rapper Nipsey Hussle’s street corner and his The Marathon Clothing store before his death in 2019, labeling the intersection a “hot spot” for crime and sending special patrols that stopped and questioned people in the area, according to records reviewed by the Guardian. Hussle, whose name became synonymous with the corner of Crenshaw Boulevard and Slauson Avenue, spent years investing in projects in the area until he was fatally shot at the intersection in March 2019. City leaders publicly mourned the artist and entrepreneur, but it was revealed soon after his death ...
Revealed: how LAPD targeted Nipsey Hussle’s street corner and store
Police sent patrols to stop people around The Marathon Clothing store, records show, as Hussle’s brother tells the Guardian: ‘Everybody would get harassed’
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