Attorney Lisa Bloom and South African anti-apartheid activist Bradley Steyn, who was beaten and shot in the genitals by LAPD rubber bullets at a recent #BLM protest, hold a press conference demanding justice in front of the LAPD headquarters in DTLA
On June 25, 2020, attorney Lisa Bloom and her client Bradley Steyn — a South African native and former anti-apartheid activist — held a press conference in front of LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles to announce planned legal action against the department. Steyn alleged that on May 30, 2020, while attempting to assist another demonstrator at a Black Lives Matter protest in the Fairfax District, LAPD officers beat him with batons and fired a rubber bullet at him at point-blank range, rupturing one of his testicles and requiring emergency surgery. Bloom released photos documenting Steyn’s injuries and called for rubber bullets to be severely curtailed or banned, demanding rules prohibiting their use at point-blank range or against the face or genitals, while Steyn called for an end to what he described as “apartheid-style policing” in the United States.