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Quotation of the Week

“They send you, by yourself? Where are your lights? Where are your trucks? Your cameras?” he demanded. “You can tell your supervisor that I was displeased! Displeased with you coming out here with a little digital camera–a little digital camera–for this! Where are your trucks?” Martin, a retired school-district worker, assumed a look of disgust. “One single reporter,” he repeated. “To do a story that will be three lines on page 20.”

The story was about 17-year-old Quanisha Pitts, who was killed down the block from where Martin lives.

From the L.A. Times Homicide Report

Published June 16, 2007By erika
Categorized as Culture, Los Angeles, Quotation of the Week

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