{"id":104075,"date":"2021-09-24T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T14:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=104075"},"modified":"2021-09-24T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T17:27:47","slug":"black-lives-matter-leader-victim-of-another-apparent-swatting-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2021\/09\/24\/black-lives-matter-leader-victim-of-another-apparent-swatting-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter leader victim of another apparent swatting call"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[File]<\/figcaption><\/figure>A leader of Black Lives Matter<\/strong> Los Angeles who was targeted in a swatting incident last year was the victim of another apparent false emergency call Thursday.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Police Department officers were called to the residence of Melina Abdullah<\/strong> about 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in the 2100 block of Wellington Road, near Washington Boulevard after receiving a call that Abdullah’s young son had contacted police claiming Abdullah had overdosed on pills and requested assistance, Capt. Stacy Spell told the Los Angeles Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A unit and a supervisor was sent to Abdullah’s home to check on her, Spell said.<\/p>\n

Spell told The Times<\/em> officers “were able to determine that she was not in any danger” after a neighbor was able to contact Abdullah and notify her that police were at her door.\u00a0The responding officers ultimately determined the report was a false emergency call for service intended to elicit a large police response to the location.<\/p>\n

Abdullah filed a lawsuit this week alleging the LAPD had acted improperly after a similar call last year to her home and said Thursday’s swatting call was “very suspicious” as it came on the heels of her lawsuit.<\/p>\n

“The timing is not coincidental,” she told The Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on the swatting call is asked to call the LAPD Major Crimes Division at 213-486-7280. Calls made during non-business hours or on weekends should be made to 877-527-3247.<\/p>\n

Anonymous tips can be called in to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or submitted online at lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A leader of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles who was targeted in a swatting incident last year was the victim of another apparent false emergency call Thursday. Los Angeles Police Department officers were called to the residence of Melina Abdullah about 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in the 2100 block of Wellington Road, near Washington […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":72205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}