LA Residents Using Twitter to Broadcast News from Police Scanners
It's like theater, they say
On a recent night in Venice, late enough that the boardwalk is empty of tourists, a police officer questions a man in a black plaid shirt. A woman with surfer-blond hair pulled into a ponytail stands nearby, the sounds from a portable scanner escaping through her jacket pocket. She snaps a picture with her phone and attaches it to her tweet:
Drunk flunky stole homeless bro's deck. Beach fuzz found him at bus stop. In custody & en route to the slammer
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