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Here’s your funding for mental health care, your street repair, your environmental code enforcement, your bike lanes, your bus routes, your homelessness caseworkers, your housing inspectors, your parks and libraries, your pre-k, your legal aid, your tree canopy,
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21 yrs ago, 18 yr old Esequiel Hernandez was herding his goats when he was murdered by a team of US Marines deployed to the Mexican border.
Being a US citizen didn’t save him, nor did only being 300 yards from his home.
The Marines were never changed.
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Reminder that YOU KNEW YESTERDAY that it was going to take A WHILE to count all the votes and TRUMP WAS GOING TO USE EARLY RETURNS TO TRY TO DECLARE VICTORY AND STOP COUNTING
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After LAPD murdered employee Mely Corado in a Silver Lake Trader Joe’s, the company arranged a donation of $125,000 to the department. Tell Trader Joe’s to rescind this insult.
knock-la.com/we-demand-trade…
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Could you have imagined this two weeks ago? Don’t stop, we’re gonna win.
Let’s keep this energy, Los Angeles. We aren’t stopping anytime soon.
“We must uplift that abolition is possible” - @DocMellyMel
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So not ventilators. Or basic income. Or literally anything else. Cool.
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If you're not on the ground at #EchoParkRiseUp, here's something to do: you're going to email your council office.
No, not the members. Their field staffers. The ones who have to look you in the face at your neighborhood meetings.
We'll make it easy for you.
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Cops will not protect you.
#BREAKING: At least 1 person was hit by a truck in #Hollywood as they protested the #BreonnaTaylor case. The truck left the scene after the crash, was pulled over by @LAPDHollywood and the driver handcuffed but was later RELEASED. We're working to determine why he was let go
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Yo @ericgarcetti you should listen to your neighbor more.
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People across the US have come together with one demand: #DefundThePolice & reinvest in our communities.
#8cantwait proposes cosmetic reforms that do nothing to reduce the size and power of the police state.
We reject this attempt to co-opt the energy and urgency of the moment.
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You know we at Ground Game feel like the troops just don’t get enough attention at our sporting events, and it would seem as though Ahmad Damra of the Indiana National Guard feels the same, which is probably why he’s shouting racial slurs at people here! Make him famous folks!!!!
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Notice all the phone alerts you're getting from the mayor saying how he'll shoot you if you're up past bedtime.
But there's no way he could have used it to tell you about voting changes, when/where ICE is operating, "know your rights" for tenants/immigrants...
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If you black out your socials rather than sharing the VITAL information the media refuses to cover, congratulations - you’re working for the police. Protest and justice hashtags are already getting clogged with empty performance. Think for one goddamn second.
#BlackOutTuesday
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HEY CALI: If they’re calling it now that means that early returns and exit polls are huge, but we have to get every delegate and every vote we can! STAY IN LINE, stay strong, support each other, bring food and water to the folks in line. LET’S GET IT
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LAPD fucking killed a little girl in a Burlington Coat Factory two days before Christmas
#UPDATE: LAPD Confirms that the second victim who died in the NoHo shooting at Burlington was a 14-year-old girl, whom they believe was killed by a stray bullet fired from an officer's firearm.
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You never have to be an “expert” on war in order to oppose it, or to start organizing against the next one
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Glendale was a sundown town for decades and is still a hotbed of “driving while Black” stops. Look at this crowd. ✊🏼
Large crowd at Black Lives Matter march in Glendale, now making its way to Glendale City Hall. @ABC7 #abc7eyewitness
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At least they’re admitting they’re a gang now
The gangs all here 🐶
A safer @unionstationla after receiving a bomb threat • no better reason to bring all the partners in to conduct a sweep of the entire property • #LAPDBombK9 #LAPDTransitBombK9 #AmtrakBombK9 #LAXBombK9
#LAPDGoMetro #GoMetro #LA #LAPD
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The argument for #DefundThePolice is always most eloquently made by the police themselves and the things they choose to prioritize.
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How on Earth does @MayorOfLA plan on enforcing a curfew when over 60k LA residents are unhoused?
This is giving cops the excuse they’ve always wanted to do use unbridled force against unhoused people and conduct mass roundups of them.
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You literally just made it illegal to be homeless for thousands of unhoused women and children
Today marks an important moment in our city’s #transportation history - for the first time all transportation leadership positions are held by women. When women at the table, we recognize circumstances where policy changes can improve the lives of women and children.
#WomenLead
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The Mayor is so thrilled he’s ordering LAPD to fire celebratory rounds at Lakers fans outside staples center.
Video from @ShotOn35mm @LATACO
There’s no denying it –– this has been a hard year.
This championship win means so much to our city and the people who call it home.
Thank you @Lakers for bringing us together. We’re lighting the night in purple and gold to celebrate. #ForKobe
ALT Los Angeles City Hall shown at night illuminated in purple and gold in honor of the L.A. Lakers winning the NBA championship.
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Nury Martinez, Kevin de Leon, and Gil Cedillo are bigots with no place in government. They need to resign immediately.
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We do this everyday and without guns
#DidYouKnow every Monday and Thursday your Hollywood Officers work with local non-profits to assist and deliver food & PPE to seniors in the community?
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Not naming the politics and ideology attached to this violence is cowardice.
Attack on Pelosi's husband seen as rising political violence - Los Angeles Times latimes.com/politics/story/2…
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FEMA will reimburse 100% of the costs. @CityAttorneyLA confirms that hotel rooms can be commandeered. #seizethehotels and save our unhoused neighbors… for free. @CD6Nury
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Anarchists have been feeding your families during the pandemic and fighting fascists in the streets to prevent exactly what you saw today.
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.@MayorOfLA just happily took a question from a Breitbart reporter, won't meet with BLM though
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Our street medics are being specifically targeted by LAPD.
We have a need for additional PPE if you can donate it, or sell it to us at a discount.
If you or a friend have motorcycle jackets, bicycle helmets, paintball masks, kevlar gloves, or the like, please let us know.
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You control the largest port in the country. Stop the shipment of arms to Turkey through it.
L.A. is proud to be home to the largest Armenian diaspora. We stand with the people of Armenia. I urge our leaders in Washington to conduct the sustained and rigorous diplomacy necessary to bring peace to the Artsakh region. Turkey must disengage.
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Better angle of the assault by CHP - makes it clear that the driver accelerated into the crowd before anyone struck the car, protesters physically shoved out of the way by the hood. Vehicular assault.
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1) lied about the man having a replica firearm
2) the lighter was obviously nowhere visible when he was shot so who knows where it came from
3) they got the body worn footage in just hours so every time they don’t release it you know it’s on purpose
Investigators have released the following images related to today's officer-involved-shooting in Hollywood.
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“We treat witnesses like suspects and then wonder why nobody wants to talk to us”
The scene of an ongoing investigation into a shooting that occurred tonight in LAPD’s Newton Division.
These people obviously didn’t decide to make the right decision & stay home tonight. Luckily they weren’t injured, but it could’ve been tragic for so many.
Be smart. Be safe.
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The #EchoParkRiseUp residents have declared tonight a win. They will be allowed to stay another night, but will have to do this all over again tomorrow. Please get some rest and turn back out at 7am.
(Here’s a portion of the cops they just had up against us for reference)
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The blue line flag is a fascist symbol that celebrates the lynching of Black people. Abolish the police.
Brooklyn center police are flying a blue line flag outside the station right now
Community note
I am by not condoning the acts of the police in this situation, but it is important to note that the Thin Blue Line flag was flying before this incident in their town, and isn't a response to antagonize, from at least as early as 9/2019 as shown in the google maps image: google.com/maps/@45.07700…
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Remember getting like four different texts from the mayor about curfew times that kept changing?
Anyone get one about voting this week?
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We heard them loud and clear for four years: racism, fascism, misogyny, transphobia, resentment, fear, narcissism. Done listening, thanks.
Also Kasich is an anti-worker ghoul who shouldn’t be allowed to go out in public
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Such a maddening misallocation of resources.
Who is asking for this?
The @AFThunderbirds will be flying over L.A. this afternoon to salute all of the frontline workers keeping our city safe.
ALT Map of Thunderbirds flyover of Los Angeles
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You can hear he’s worried his unit will see this, but he’s probably just being modest. Can’t imagine why anyone would wanna take a knee at our ball games with heroes like this in attendance! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💂♀️💂🏻♂️💂🏻♂️
@ONENorthside @chicagodsa @CDRosa @peopleslobbyusa
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You can’t reform this.
A cop slapped a handcuffed man dying of a drug overdose. Called him a “bitch.” Shoved a baton in his mouth. That cop got suspended 6 days. But the cop who revealed the cruelty was expelled from the cop union. Now faces 20 years prison for whistleblowing. usatoday.com/story/news/inve…
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THREAD #EchoParkRiseUp #ResignMitch
By refusing to meet with the camp Mitch rejected the most effective partner for transitioning people to housing. By sending LAPD to destroy the camp, he shattered trust relationships that government service providers spent years building.
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If you live in LA and are wondering what you can do to help trans kids, you can start here by fighting against the aggressive criminalization of the largest unhoused trans youth population in the country
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Our petition demanding the resignation of Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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This was yesterday in Highland Park, but ok.
See how your neighborhood measures up on wearing masks. We need 100% usage across L.A.
Please wear your mask and encourage your loved ones to do their part. That’s how we’ll flatten the curve.
nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
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The deadliest police force in the country tried to send it's paramilitary arm to the home of its most vocal political opponent, and their excuse is that it was just a prank.
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Not posting the Adam Toledo video, but to followers who still get defensive when groups like ours say abolish police:
We have done, and will continue to do so much work to try and educate you around this. Abolition isn't a meme.
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Rushing out to go get some parking tickets while they’re still offering these low-low prices
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There is absolutely no reason to think the military will not behave in the same unrestrained, unaccountable, and illegal way during this border deployment as they have overseas for the last 17 years of the war on terror.
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They’re not anti-mask protesters, they’re anti-public-health protesters. They’re opposed to the idea that anyone should be allowed to defend themselves against their bosses and customers.
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Just thinking about the time Chief Moore admitted that LAPD can deal with one protest of 10,000 people but can’t deal with 10 protests of 1000 people
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LA Times: Raman has all the good ideas that the city should adopt, also this is an endorsement of Ryu for some reason
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The solidarity you showed with your unhoused neighbors at #EchoParkRiseUp was inspiring. Our hearts are full.
The encampment organizers are asking that you stand with them again tonight, and rally at the parking lot of 1631 Sunset Blvd at 5:00 PM.
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Sometimes your staff asks us why we’re so mean to you lol
We're delivering assistance to Angelenos facing economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Starting Monday, with our new Early Pay LA program, @LADOTOfficial will offer a $20 discount on parking citations paid within 48 hours. losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020…
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In regards to the city’s proposed new ordinance, there is literally no where for anyone to go. Every single city, neighborhood, and building in the county complains about unhoused ppl existing near them for different reasons. We have been over and over this with them. They know.
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LASD is a rogue agency that needs to be entirely abolished, and no one makes that case better than the behavior of LASD itself.
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wonder what constantly buzzing neighborhoods with helicopters does to people with ptsd
Let's not light up fireworks in our neighborhoods. It's not only illegal, it's inconsiderate. Do it for our combat veterans.
mysafela.org/fireworks/
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A thing Angelenos need to come to terms with, and Californians generally, is that their political establishment is full of right-wingers who simply understand that they can’t win as republicans
lamag.com/politics/nury-mart…
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Canceling gender is an environmental imperative
CAL FIRE Law Enforcement has determined the El Dorado Fire, burning near Oak Glen in San Bernardino County, was caused by a smoke generating pyrotechnic device, used during a gender reveal party. The fire began at… instagram.com/p/CE0ddK-hHo1/…
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“Did joe biden” is trending and it’s not even a hashtag. Everyone just has separate questions about crazy shit he’s done already tonight lol #DemocraticDebate
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Cops just shot a young woman in the back of the head with a rubber bullet, knocking her to the ground bloody, then shot at the people who came to pull her out of the line of fire.
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There will be no justice under our system for murders committed by that system. Defund, disarm, and disband the police.
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People living in tents and dying in the streets doesn’t threaten capital or white supremacy. Unhoused people building community to serve their own needs does. The housed demanding that the agency of the unhoused be recognized does. #EchoParkRiseUp
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CALL TO ACTION
The anti-LGBT bigots who have been harassing parents and school boards in SoCal want to bring their hate tour to Los Angeles on Tuesday.
WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT
TURN UP FOR LGBT RIGHTS
8/22 @ 8:30am, Grand Park across from City Hall
#protecttranskids
#nohateinLA
ALT flyer (blue with rainbows). Text: URGENT CALL TO ACTION RALLY FOR LGBT+ YOUTH THERE’S NO ROOM FOR HATE IN L.A. TUESDAY AUGUST 22nd AT 8:30 AM MEET AT GRAND PARK ACROSS FROM CITY HALL Email info@groundgamela.org with questions or concerns Logos for LA Forward, Queer Nation LA, and Ground Game LA
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today’s action was a powerful display of solidarity with our unhoused neighbors. LA’s unhoused community is disproportionately Black and experiences the brunt of police violence. #BlackLivesMatter means #UnhousedBlackLivesMatter and #TransBlackLivesMatter
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FRIENDS! Dozens of protesters for black lives were arrested in Beverly Hills tonight. Last time BHPD held protesters overnight in unhealthy conditions without even water. Call and demand their immediate release!
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Kenneth Mejia officially more popular than Rick Caruso @kennethmejiaLA
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Where the fuck was this energy when @mikebonin was making lonely one-man votes bc he was the only councilmember who believed that homeless people were people? When he faced such extreme abuse from fascists & his own colleagues that he chose to retire for his own mental health?
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As you can see, #8cantwait accomplished its intended goal - a set of reformist half-measures that elected officials can grab onto to preserve the murderous status quo and hide from the anger of their constituents.
Don’t fall for it.
#DefundThePolice
Just filed a motion for our next Board meeting urging the Sheriff's Department and all 46 local police depts to adopt #CampaignZero's 8 Policies for reducing police brutality.
All credit to @deray, @MsPackyetti & @samswey for their policy framework. In LA County, #8CantWait.
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The National Guard murdered Angelenos during Watts and ‘92, but of course you care more about Nordstrom’s than the lives of your iwn neighbors.
The California National Guard is being deployed to Los Angeles overnight to support our local response to maintain peace and safety on the streets of our city.
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LAPD allowed white supremacists to shut down the largest vaccination site in the country today, so this is how their social media pivots.
The LAPD has lost 8 members of our family to this devastating pandemic.
Fred, Terry, Raymond, Valentin, Erica, Philip, Dexter, Patricia—you will never be forgotten.
We thank you for your dedicated service. May you all Rest In Peace.
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The fact that the only time it’s illegal to possess these objects is when trans people are doing so at a protest with violent transphobic fascists present says everything you need to know about the LAPD and city council.
At a protest near Wilshire Bl & Rampart Bl, 2 groups clashed. Smoke bombs/projectiles were thrown at ofcrs & a dispersal order was issued. Several dozen people were arrested. Numerous items in violation of 55.07 LAMC were found discarded including a stungun, knives, pepper spray
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It is apparent that we cannot rely on our government structures to sufficiently meet the needs of our community members at this time. We have worked quickly to develop a #MutualAid infrastructure to respond as best we can to COVID 19. Donate here: bit.ly/mutualaidLA
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LAPD claims it screwed up so badly during the protests last summer that…it needs $67 million more 🥺
Not a single person has been held responsible for their violence. There has been no accountability at any level, and there never will be if they have their way. #DefundNotReform
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Now's a good time to revisit this powerful letter written by the residents of Echo Park Lake to @MitchOFarrell.
These are our neighbors. These are our friends. We will stand with them. Join us on Wed at 7am to resist the displacement. #EchoParkRiseUp
knock-la.com/dear-mitch-dont…
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Breathtakingly foul right-wing propaganda from so-called “progressive” journalists
While TYT-investor Jeffrey Katzenberg was lobbying the LA City Council to pass an anti-camping ordinance targeting LA's homeless, Ana Kasparian was ranting against homeless camps for creating "crime" and "open air drug markets."
(Thank you again @dianebullock for finding this).
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