A leading Black Lives Matter activist in Los Angeles on Thursday lost her lawsuit against the city's police department over its handling of hoax phone calls that brought a large law enforcement response to her home.
Police have said three teens driven by racial hatred were behind so-called swatting calls across the country, including two in 2020 and 2021 to the Los Angeles home of Melina Abdullah, co-founder of BLM-LA and a Cal State LA professor. “Swatting” refers to a phony emergency call made to send police to a particular address without cause.
