“I was very hurt and confused,” Carranza said. She testified that her attorney, Gregory Smith, phoned her while she was on what was intended to be a week-long vacation in Puerto Vallarta to tell her about the photo, prompting her to cut the vacation short and return to Los Angeles. “I had a feeling of helplessness, abandonment and betrayal,” the 33- year Los Angeles Police Department veteran said.Ĭarranza alleges in her suit filed in January 2019 that the department did not do enough to prevent the emotional distress she said she continues to suffer since being told about the photo in November 2018, including the LAPD’s denial of her request that a department-wide statement be put out confirming that she was not the person in the photo.Ĭhief Michel Moore testified Thursday that distributing such a statement would have informed officers who knew nothing about the photo and generated curiosity in it, therefore doing more harm than good.Īt the time, Carranza commanded the Commercial Crimes Division and now leads the Gang and Narcotics Division. She said she also felt that her colleagues were stepping aside to avoid her. DOUBLE THE CAPTAIN OF HER HEART TRIALLillian Carranza told the Los Angeles Superior Court jury hearing the trial of her lawsuit against the city.Ĭarranza said that when in the workplace, she wondered to herself if people glancing at their phones were looking at the photo. “Part of me felt like I was being gaslighted by the department,” Capt. Released in September 1985 on the album Blue, it reached #16 on Billboard and #20 on Cash Box, September 27, 1986.A Los Angeles police captain testified Tuesday that her frustration and anxiety grew when it seemed to her that management was unconcerned about the widespread department distribution of a photo of a nude woman that resembled but was not her, causing her cardiologist to double her blood pressure medication. There was a sense of the new and looking ahead, but also one of longing, loss, and sadness, then whenever I listened to it, and that sense, if anything, has never died. Yes, if you were to ask me what the best song of 1986 was, it was Double's "The Captain Of Her Heart." Thirty-six years have passed and so have many faces and places, but the song's effect on me remains unchanged. I was captivated by the sound and that was enough. I don't know how long it was before I bothered to check their MTV video out, maybe years later. It was destined to be a late summer hit by a group I never heard of before called Double in what would be their only major appearance in the US pop charts. All through the year, slowly moving up the charts, was a soft, jazzy love song that grew on me every time I heard it. I can think of many songs from that year I loved, including Madonna's "Live To Tell," "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys, and "Sara" by Starship. And it wasn't because 1986 wasn't a pivotal year itself, it was and for me it marked a rejuvenation in pop radio music and the coming of age of sophisticated cable television music videos. Usually there are at least three or four competing for the position in my mind in any given year, and often from pivotal years like 1968 or 1972 or 1979 there are far too many to bestow such an honor. It is rare indeed when I find myself declaring a song as my top favorite for a given year.
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