By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist Following the heavy fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s final rejection of the use of race criteria as a […]
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THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Lancaster incident new challenge for sheriff
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist “It’s disturbing, no ifs and or buts about it.” A clearly troubled Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna minced […]
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Homelessness: L.A.’s never-ending crisis
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is plainly worried. She had just seen the new report from the Los Angeles Homeless […]
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Chief must use mandate to oust bad cops
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist One of the worst kept secrets about law enforcement in California, especially Los Angeles, is that local police departments […]
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Price indictment raises more questions
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist The multi-count indictment of veteran 9th District Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price on varied corruption charges was a […]
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Juneteenth observance came with resistance
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist One year after Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into law the bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday, Gallup took […]
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Myths about Juneteenth defy historical facts
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist It has long been an inside joke for someone to say that Juneteenth was a testament to ignorance. The […]
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: There’s no safe way to apply chokeholds
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist Within weeks of the George Floyd slaying in May 2020, the San Diego Police Department banned the use of […]
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Chokeholds still an issue three years later
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist May 25 marks the third anniversary of the slaying of George Floyd by then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. The […]
THE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Most Americans still oppose reparations
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Contributing Columnist Former President Donald Trump called the notion of reparations for slavery “unusual” and “interesting.” He quickly added, though, in […]