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   From: jtownsle@butler.edu   
      
   The Los Angeles Police Department‘s first openly gay cop is in   
   police custody Monday and due in court Tuesday to face possible   
   domestic violence charges.   
      
   Mitchell Grobeson, 57, was arrested Friday after he allegedly   
   holed up inside a West Hollywood home for nearly four hours   
   before surrendering to a sheriff’s SWAT team.   
      
   Grobeson is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail on suspicion of   
   corporal injury on a spouse, according to a statement today from   
   the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He is due to appear   
   in LAX Superior Court Tuesday morning.   
      
   The incident began about 10:10 a.m. Friday in the 800 block West   
   Knoll Drive, according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.   
      
   No evacuations were ordered.   
      
   “Crisis Negotiation Team personnel made contact with the suspect   
   requesting him to come out of the residence,” according to a   
   sheriff’s department statement. “The suspect agreed and   
   surrendered to special weapons team personnel without incident.”   
      
   Officials did not release further details about the incident.   
   They are asking anyone with information about the incident to   
   contact the LASD’s West Hollywood Station at (310) 855-8850.   
      
   Grobeson sued the city of Los Angeles in 1988, alleging   
   discriminatory practices against gay and lesbian employees by   
   the police department. He won reinstatement to the LAPD as part   
   of a settlement to that suit, but later claimed that his bosses   
   held the suit against him, and filed a second lawsuit.   
      
   The entire legal saga took 25 years to play out, and Grobeson   
   finally settled the second lawsuit in 2013.   
      
   http://mynewsla.com/crime/2016/03/07/lapds-first-openly-gay-cop-   
   could-face-domestic-violence-charges/   
          
      
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