LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday passed a motion introduced by Councilman Curren Price to identify $5 million in funding—some of which would come from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) budget—to help a South Los Angeles neighborhood recover from a massive explosion set off by an LAPD bomb squad error that injured 17 people and forced many residents from their homes.
The June 30 detonation of a large cache of fireworks on East 27th Street, near San Pedro Street, sent 17 residents and first responders to hospitals, destroyed a bomb squad truck, and damaged 22 residences, 13 businesses, and 37 vehicles.
