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On Monday, my colleague Tim Arango published an exclusive piece that illustrates the complexity of policing gangs in Los Angeles. He explained what he found:

When the rapper Nipsey Hussle was gunned down in the parking lot of the South Los Angeles strip mall he owned in late March, city leaders called on the community to come together and honor his legacy by pushing for peace in the neighborhood.

Months later, his legacy lives on — in the countless murals of his image that are all over the city, and in the hearts of the residents of South L.A. he inspired, with his music, his investments in the community and his commitment to protecting it from gentrification.

[Read about Nipsey Hussle’s legacy as an artist who never left his hometown behind.]

But even as city leaders, including the mayor and police commissioner, embraced Hussle, whose real name was Ermias Asghedom, as a pillar of the community and a peacemaker among gang members, Hussle was also the subject of a long-running investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department and city attorney’s office into whether his property at the corner of Crenshaw Boulevard and Slauson Avenue was a hub of gang activity.