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—David Blake Jr., a man reported to be the son of Compton rapper and producer DJ Quik, was charged yesterday in the shooting death of a man in Downey that occurred last week amid a fight in a local home. [KTLA]
—A UCLA report finds that the deaths of young Black and Latino men in L.A. County jails have reportedly been misclassified as naturally occurring or undetermined, whereas a alleges that a majority "are at the hands of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department guards through physical violence, mistreatment of the mentally ill or the result of medical negligence." [Spectrum 1]
—A 1,300-year-old statue of a Mayan maize deity was discovered by archaeologists in southeastern Mexico's Palenque. [France24]
—LAUSD claims three high school students ingested fentanyl in ecstasy pills they'd ordered online. [KABC]