A crowd protests at a Bell city council meeting after the salaries were revealed. (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)
District Attorney Steve Cooley announces the indictment of eight Bell city council members. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
Former Bell city employees at a bail reduction hearing in September. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
At Miller Children’s Hospital in Long Beach, Erica Miranda waits for her bandage to be changed. The 10-year-old was shot three times in the back, knee and hip while playing basketball outside her home in Compton. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Miracle lifts her mother’s leg as Rose Smith slides into her wheelchair. A bullet had just missed Miracle in the womb, and she was born addicted to her mother’s pain medication. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
Albert Cobbin, left, and his brother Maddox play near where their brother Edwin was killed just days earlier. (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)
