The book contains content on the murder of the two celebrities. Frank lyga, a veteran investigator assigned to the lapds gang and narcotic division, has been removed from field duties pending the outcome of the investigation, said cmdr. They have a name and they try their best to pin it to the crime but lose in the court room. Former lapd detective frank lyga murdered lapd officer gaines. Fascinating account of two high profile homicide cases, death row records, the frank lyga kevin gaines shooting, and the rampart corruption scandal. In fact, the lapd and city hall were burying embarrassing. Shea whigham as detective frank lyga wynn everett as megan poole, russells wife. Perez had for some time been taking advantage of the lapds absurdly loose system for checking out drugs as court evidence. The lapds frank lyga was ousted not for shooting a man, but for talking about the shooting inappropriately years later. Whistleblower cop exposes another garcetti, beck failure.
Frank lyga, rather than having his name cleared, was hung out to dry, as the public was led to believe the city was covering for him. Lapd captain files slander suit against lapd detective frank lyga. Lapd detective frank lyga fired over racial comments. Had he been able to pursue the clues we would have averted the david mack bank robbery, the kevin gaines shooting by officer frank lyga, and possibly the cocaine disappearing out of the evidence locker perpetrated by rafael perez.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading l. Gaines in selfdefense tuesday at a studio city intersection. Fired lapd detective frank lyga sues for discrimination. In august 2019, he was promoted to assistant chief, and assigned as the director, office special operations. Frank lyga project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Inside the lapd elite spy network kindle edition by rothmiller, mike, ivan g. Usa only slightly exaggerates when it calls the killings of tupac shakur and the notorious b. The resulting lapd investigation of kevin gaines helped lead to the rampart scandal. It is the mission of the lapd to safeguard the lives and property of the people we serve.
Impact team gather with the director of the dea in washington. Kevin gaines police officer project gutenberg self. Lapd detective frank lyga offers proof that the lapd still employs, harbors. Former lapd officer says it was widely known that frank. The story involves a cop who shoots a fellow officer. It is based on the book labyrinth by randall sullivan, about the murder. According to lyga, gaines, who was not in uniform was acting aggressively towards lyga in traffic and at the red light, lyga pulled his weapon and killed gaines. Johnnie cochran was retained by the family, the exwife, and immediately i mean, you immediately saw in the media the race card. During a training session, lyga was speaking to a room of 38 other lapd employees when he took over the training session and started to talk about a 1997 incident when he shot and killed fellow lapd officer. Former lapd officer says it was widely known that frank lyga did not like black officers duration. Former lapd officer calls for frank lyga investgation into. Lyga was subsequently relieved of duty and fired later in 2014. Domanick shows how, by the time the video of rodney king being viciously beaten by lapd officers appeared, the department had been primed for an explosion for a long time and how jim davis and bill parker had set things up in a way which, combined with the weakness of the mayors office.
He was shot and killed on march 18, 1997, by undercover lapd detective frank lyga, who. Frank lygas description of a good day at work is rockin and rollin. Earlier this month, former lapd officer brian bentley, posted an audio file, that was surreptitiously recorded by an unidentified employee of the lapd of current lapd detective frank lyga. Ira salzman, lygas attorney, confirmed on wednesday that.
Frank lyga, center, and pcpassigned detectives on the l. Frank lyga alleges he lost his job after being wrongfully perceived to be racist. He was shot and killed on march 18, 1997, by undercover lapd officer frank lyga, who was determined. Many years ago while i was still a police officer i wrote a timeless book. Last year, frank lyga filed a federal lawsuit that accused the city of. To reduce the incidence and fear of crime, and to enhance public safety while working with the diverse communities to improve their quality of life. It is shortsighted for beck to demonize carranza for what amounts to litigation that helped rid the lapd of a bad and dangerous cop. The story deals with internal affairs and police corruption tied to political corruption. Thats the question i have for lapd police chief charlie beck and the police commission after listening to an audio recording of detective frank lyga at a recent inservice l. The book was great i loved it it open my eyes to know more about this case. The film tells the story of former lapd detective, russell poole johnny.
March 18, 1997 on ventura boulevard in north hollywood, two men in civilian garb driving their vehicles got into it, trading heated unpleasantries. Bentley, an african american, published a tellall book entitled. At the time there werent any cellphone videos, no twitter and no one on the lapd would corroborate my claims of police brutality and the violent culture of law enforcement. Commander frank was promoted to deputy chief in march 2017 and where he served as the commanding officer, ctsob. Perezs final theft was a pound of coke inventoried by frank lyga, interpreted as a. Statement on the firing of lapd detective frank lyga. Apparently the late russell pool received some new information regarding the murders that led him to a different conclusion than the one he arrived at back when he was a detective working on the case. When he started finding out information about corruption inside of lapd he was told to cease investigating. The story is real and the book labyrinth is written by randall sullivan. Lyga, sources said, could help support his contention that he shot officer kevin l. Rafael perezs testimony on police misconduct ignited the biggest scandal in the history of the l. Unsolved launches with gripping probe of tupac, biggie. Our mandate is to do so with honor and integrity, while at all times conducting ourselves with the highest ethical standards to maintain public confidence. After retiring in 1999, he formed a private detective agency.
One was white, frank lyga, the other black, kevin gains. Controversial detective frank lyga fired by lapd chief. Lapd detective frank lyga secretly recorded talking about. According to the investigation, neither lyga nor gaines knew the other was a police officer. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Years ago, i stated that officer gaines knew who frank lyga was at the time he was murdered. Perez first came under suspicion in 1998, for stealing evidenceinventoried cocaine. This was a videotape shot from a surveillance camera aimed out the front door of the ampm minimart where kevin gaines had died. In march 1997, lapd undercover detective frank lyga, shot and killed fellow lapd rampart crash officer kevin gaines in what was described as a road rage incident.
Lygas attorney said the department notified him that beck had signed the paperwork to fire the narcotics detective. Kevin lee gaines february 6, 1966 march 18, 1997 was an american police officer. I was relentlessly harassed by the lapd because of it. A recent unconnected lapd case has come up again with officer frank lyga where he killed another officer. Kevin gaines police officer news newspapers books scholar jstor january 2020 learn. Randall sullivans stated objective in his book, labyrinth, is to look into the. Clearly there were several lapd officers in las vegas that night and uncovering lapd involvement in the attempted murder of suge knight and murder of tupac shakur could prove embarrassing to the department but leaking the letter to avoid that. Gpoole also investigated the killing of lapd officer kevin gaines by lapd officer frank lyga on march 18, 1997. Hollywood moon by joseph wambaugh, the night fire by michael connelly, dark sacred night by michael connelly, suspect by robert cr. Frank lyga in recorded comments made at a training session, filed the slander suit thursday in. Back in the olden days of 1997, frank lyga shot and killed lapd officer kevin gaines during a heated traffic dispute between the two.
Veteran lapd officer sues to get job back after recorded. Perezs final theft was a pound of coke inventoried by frank lyga, interpreted as a revenge ploy for the gaines shooting. This from the same man who shot and killed fellow lapd officer and black man kevin gaines in 1997. Whistleblower cop exposes another garcetti, beck failure details daniel guss. Lyga fatally shot fellow lapd officer kevin gaines, who was black. Frank lyga has stated publicly that kevin gaines murder was a sanctioned hit by lapd. This is an essential text for understanding how the history of the lapd led inexorably up to the 1992 riots. Street cops havent necessarily read the police novels of joseph. Frank lyga received almost no support from the lapd brass until russell poole presented them with a piece of evidence that ultimately vindicated the undercover officer. Lapd investigate racial comments from cop in 97 blueon. Frank lyga, who is white, during the training day bragged about a day back in 1997, when he shot and killed offduty lapd officer kevin gaines.
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