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- ↑ District Attorney's Office Probing Prosecutor Over Alleged Threats. "Metropolitan News-Enterprise".
- ↑ Sewell, Abby (September 9, 2010). "Compton council fires city manager". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved February 29, 2016.
Charles Evans is the second top administrator to be fired in three years. Mayor Eric Perrodin says the top priority for a new city manager will be to reestablish a local police department in Compton.
