An LAPD police sergeant testified that he ordered officers to approach Melina Abdullah's home with guns drawn despite being '70%' certain the hostage situation was fake.
Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of a lawsuit brought by Black Lives Matter L.A. co-founder Melina Abdullah against the city of Los Angeles, with a Los Angeles police sergeant telling a jury that he ordered officers to approach the activist’s home with guns drawn even though he was '70%' certain they were responding to a fake hostage situation.
received an emergency call from a person who demanded $1 million or he would shoot the three people he’d taken hostage. He gave police the address to Abdullah's home. Police dispatched more than a dozen officers and a helicopter to the scene, one of Abdullah's attorneys, Erin Darling, said his opening statement, but ignored evidence suggesting the call was a prank and continued with their armed response.
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