The fired officer manning a lonely picket line outside LAPD HQ
LA TimesGabriel Cabrera, who was fired from his job as an LAPD officer, protests outside the department’s downtown headquarters. At times he has been cursed out for being pro-police by people he suspects didn’t bother to read his two homemade signs about exposing LAPD “malfeasance.” On a certain level, Cabrera said, he understands why some might vent their anger from a “bad experience with a police officer” at someone like him — even though he is calling out what he sees as wrongdoing by department leaders. “They’re afraid to even be associated or to be seen talking to you.” After his lawsuit was thrown out, Cabrera said, he began trying to call in favors. “Quite simply, and in layman’s terms, you do not have a case.” Rico said neither the Police Protective league nor Lally had failed Cabrera. Furthermore, Rico wrote, Lally had helped reform the LAPD’s disciplinary system that Cabrera called “corrupt” through a charter amendment that allowed officers to have their cases heard by all-civilian panels.
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