“It was caused by overloading the [total containment vessel] with more
explosives than the TCV was designed for,” said Assistant Special Agent
in Charge Michael Hoffman, of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, during a closed-door meeting with local
residents Monday night. “That’s what caused the failure.”
“As trained professionals in one of the largest police departments in
America, I still cannot fathom how the LAPD thought it was acceptable to
merely eyeball unstable explosives in the middle of a densely populated
neighborhood,” Price said.
Activists have routinely recorded
police officers in public spaces without masks, despite a department
directive to wear them “whenever in public or in the workplace.” Ten LAPD employees have died of COVID-19, and thousands have been infected.