'Changes in LAPD command staff' *

Mayor Villaraigosa, Chief William Bratton and police commission president John Mack have called a 3:30 news conference that the mayor's office bills as "to discuss changes in LAPD command staff" in the wake of the MacArthur Park embarrassment. Council President Eric Garcetti is also weighing in to the issue with a task force.

* LAT and NBC4 say that Deputy Chief Cayler Carter Jr., commanding officer of Operations Central Bureau, and Cmdr. Louis Gray, number two in the bureau, have been reassigned. LAT, NBC4