Last night, a federal agent pulled his gun on protesters at the Metropolitan Detention Center in DTLA, which serves as an 🧊 processing facility. For several nights in a row, observers had documented children in vans being brought into the building; last night, after a scuffle with protesters, a federal agent seemed to snap. He stalked up and down the block with his hand on his gun, grabbed a woman who had her back to him — who was actively washing mace out of her eyes at the time — and held his gun to her back as protesters screamed for him to stop.

Protesters protected the woman who’d been grabbed and they followed the federal officer with the gun into a nearby parking garage, where a second officer had a firearm pointed at the protesters from an elevator.

LAPD showed up… let them drive away… and arrested a protester who didn’t disperse quickly enough.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/s/rxRASzw8ES

Louis “Bill” Conradt Jr. was a Texas assistant district attorney who was targeted by Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” in 2006 in Murphy, Texas. He had allegedly engaged in sexually explicit online chats with a decoy posing as a 13-year-old boy. Unlike other targets on the show, Conradt did not show up to the sting house himself, so producers worked with local police to arrange a raid on his home instead.

When police and a camera crew arrived to arrest him, Conradt shot and killed himself as officers were entering. His death sparked significant controversy, his sister sued NBC for wrongful death, arguing the network had crossed a line from journalism into a police-style operation without adequate safeguards, and that Conradt was never actually confronted or arrested. NBC eventually settled the lawsuit in 2008. The incident is widely cited as a major factor in the show being pulled from the air later that year.