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Gita. Gita was a 48-year-old Asian elephant who died at the Los Angeles Zoo on June 10, 2006. [1] Gita's death prompted dozens of animal rights activists, including In Defense of Animals, to accuse the zoo of neglecting and endangering its animals by placing them in unsatisfactory living conditions, and fueled a years-long debate in the city government over the ethics of keeping elephants in a ...
The city failed to protect and train staffers and also failed "to evaluate and correct overcrowding at their animal shelter, which resulted in animal attacks and bites on employees," Cal/OSHA said.
An inmate at the California State Prison, Sacramento died on Friday, April 12, 2024 after prison guards pinned him to the ground during an attack, causing him to lose consciousness.
A former California prison guard being retried in a “Code of Silence” cover up in an attack on an inmate who later died was found guilty Wednesday.
The RV driver discovered the bird three days later and returned it to the zoo. [10] 2008 Guha Exotic Animal Reserve Huntsville, Ontario: Jaguar: 1 day A six-year-old jaguar escaped from the zoo, attacking a dog before being shot by police. The zoo is now closed. 2007 Safari Niagara Stevensville, Ontario: Syrian brown bear: Several hours [11] 2007
The 2005 Los Angeles bomb plot was a 2005 effort by a group of ex-convicts calling themselves Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh to bomb several military bases, a number of synagogues, and an Israeli consulate in California.
The officer was punched in the face, pushed down a flight of stairs and stomped on the head before other inmates stopped the assault, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
The Navy and Marine Corps command staffs intervened on June 8 to reduce the attacks, confining sailors and Marines to barracks and ordering that Los Angeles be declared off-limits to all military personnel; this was enforced by Navy Shore Patrol personnel. Their official position was that their men were acting in self-defense.