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The death of Glenn Patrick Rose following a pursuit that ended in a hail of gunfire in a Covina alley is generating a lot of comment from friends and family in a Topix discussion of Amanda Baumfeld's story.

Here's a sample comment from someone identified as JoJo of Covina:

Those of us that knew Patrick know what cause's this type of behavior. Those of you that were close to him know exactly what I'm saying.

Several other commenters have taken up a defense of Rose on the site.

Meanwhile, Rose's girlfriend Sarah Rebecca Morales, 24, of Pomona was arraigned Thursday on three counts of assault on a police officer or firefighter and two counts of taking or driving a vehicle without the owner's consent.

She's being held in lieu of $60,000 bail at the same Lynwood facility that housed Paris Hilton last summer, according to the sheriff's inmate locator.

BTW, here's a link to the Trib's discussion forum, which is hosted by Topix.

If you are a freelance photog you probably want to get a shot of what Yahoo Buzz says are the hottest actors right now:

1		2	Elisha Cuthbert (23)	+196	366	1	Jacinda Barrett	1465%
2		43	Jacinda Barrett (2)	+173	184	2	Natassia Malthe	803%
3		3	Jessica Alba (1158)	-1	86	3	Paula Garces	752%
4		5	Lindsay Lohan (1049)	+5	72	4	Carla Gugino	534%
5		16	Eliza Dushku (2)	+40	72	5	Greta Garbo	433%
6		4	Miley Cyrus (385)	-13	66	6	Monica Keena	430%
7		6	Angelina Jolie (1257)	+3	66	7	Kim Cattrall	318%
8		93	Natassia Malthe (2)	+49	55	8	Dominique Swain	285%
9		89	Paula Garces (2)	+49	55	9	Priyanka Chopra	268%
10		11	Hilary Duff (1307)	+4	53	10	Mallika Sherawat	246%
11		32	Katrina Kaif (112)	+36	51	11	Katrina Kaif	236%

Just don't go to Malibu if you want to get some photos:

From LAObserved:

The seaside city has asked Ken Starr, dean of the Pepperdine Law School, to convene media and legal experts to help draft an ordinance that would control paparazzi swarms around local celebs. They're talking about possible buffer zones and a tax on the photogs. "We're coming up on another summer season. Let's hope we are not in store for another tsunami of paparazzi," Mayor Pamela Conley Ulich says.

It also says Paris Hilton didn't get preferential treatment. The report, released this afternoon by the OIR goes into a wide variety of other topics regarding the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

UPDATE #1 3:44 p.m. 12/20/07

It's funny how we focus on the celebrity aspects of a report like this and miss some of the more important details. A whole section of the report deals with in custody deaths and while it is entirely without names...there is a curious entry on page 24:

C A S E A 76-year old inmate went down in a dorm at North County Correctional Facility and
subsequently died. He had been seated on his lower bunk and, when he tried to get up,
he fell and struck his head on the floor. While being treated for the resulting laceration,
he complained of chest pains and was transported by ambulance to the hospital, where
he was treated for various ailments, went into cardiac arrest, and died three days later.
An NCCF sergeant interviewed several inmates assigned to bunks near the deceased
inmate’s. All said that the inmate had been in poor health, and none noted anything
unusual about the fall or the circumstances surrounding it. Even though the facts
suggested this elderly inmate died from natural causes, because the deceased inmate had
gained notoriety for his role in the murder of an LAPD officer decades earlier, both
Homicide and IAB investigators responded to the scene to insure there was no suspicious
activity. The on-call OIR attorney likewise rolled out. In the end, the coroner determined
the inmate had died of natural causes. However, the case did raise the issue of
whether this particular inmate, given his age and background, should have been housed
in a more appropriate location than a general population dormitory. Housing older
inmates is an ongoing problem for the jails, and the LASD used this case as an occasion
to renew its efforts to create specialized “old man” dorms or housing units.

Obviously this refers to Jimmy Lee Smith, one of the infamous Onion Field Killers.

I plan on linking to the complete report in a post later today.

UPDATE #2 4:57 p.m. 12-20-07

And....here  is the report.

Gang members are gunning down innocent grandmas, and here's what the LA County Sheriff's Department is doing to protect the citizens of the county.
An excerpt:

California lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it a crime for law enforcement or court employees to profit from celebrities misfortunes.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca...

A West Covina couple won some bucks from a relative of the heiress as the result of a 2004 car accident involving Paris Hilton's Mercedes and her cousin Brooke Brinson, who was behind the wheel.

A specially made jumpsuit. Sheriff Lee Baca told KFWB's Pete Demetriou this morning that "because of Paris Hilton's slight size" there was no jumpsuit that fit her, so one was made for her. I guess that means incoming inmates, (extra large and extra petite) can expect the same treatment?? We'll see.
Meanwhile the Internal Affairs Bureau is on the case.