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‘Killer cop’ Twitter account suspended after LAPD union sues its owner

Mayor Eric Garcetti said in his State of the City address that he would be shifting 200 officers from elsewhere in the Police Department to its Metropolitan Division, a group that fights crime in different areas of the city.

Twitter has suspended the social media account of an anti-police website for violating its rules against inciting violence after a union for Los Angeles police sued the owner of the website that offers a “bounty” for the killing of police officers.

The Twitter account @killercop1984 was suspended after the Los Angeles Police Protective League last week sued the owner of the “killer cop” website, accusing him of publishing their photos on his website and putting out a “bounty” on them.

In a tweet mentioned in the

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