Thank you to
@AnnenbergMedia
for covering this story and thanks to everyone who has signed the petition to date.
@USC
insists they are going above and beyond to comply with the Resolution Agreement, but can anyone say campus has become safer?
#News
✌️🔗⚖️📰
@smc429
Apparently treason isn't treason if you aren't part of this cabal of traitors who sought to undermine our
#democracy
and reinstall Donald Trump in a stupid plot so preposterous that even Mike Pence could not go along with it. Ginni Thomas belongs in prison along with the others!
Statement from
@JTOWNACTION
on tonight's events. This is really ugly and it's clear that multiple people were subjected to
#victimization
in addition to Jason Reedy.
@kdeleon
must resign ASAP for the good of the City of Los Angeles.
#Violence
and toxic
#hatred
are never OK!
These are the Squirrels that the Church of Scientology and LAPD just don’t seem capable of handling. Will these protests end the so-called cult and expose corruption in law enforcement? That’s exactly what seems to be happening in Hollywood.
#LosAngeles
#Photography
#News
🖤🤍
@smc429
The real Feds aren’t sitting on the sidelines! Props to Dan Goldman for going to
#Congress
to carry on the fight against Trump and this fascist insurrection. Anyone still in our government who isn’t outraged by the Trump regime and 1/6 wasn’t paying attention. Patriotism is real!
There was an incident tonight in Hollywood at La Poubelle Restaurant opposite the Scientology Celebrity Center. The man on the bike clearly assaults protestors on a mistaken basis. After I pointed the camera away he was restrained, and then left.
@FilmThePoliceLA
@JessPalmadessa
Props to
@smc429
if there’s one thing we know about
#ResignKDL
it’s that you can create a lot of neural energy with simple ideas. There’s no magic to this, it’s like an umbrella at a protest! Seriously
#GinniThomas
needs to be taken down with
#DonaldTrump
oy vey!
#Viral
#Hashtags
@smc429
I was in an active shooter scare back in 2017 at
#USC
and it was pretty terrifying even without actual
#shooting
right after Las Vegas. As soon as I saw the Michigan news, I thought back to that day. I can still remember:
See Twitter! This is what I mean by all roads go back to Rick Caruso. KDL’s
#reported
“bodyguard” is in fact a Rick Caruso voter despite his mugging it up with Karen Bass. Rick got Carlos’s endorsement in spite of also liking Karen Bass. So just how bad did Rick want KDLs voters?
I love how the Church of Scientology is literally on Twitter attacking the
@latimes
over coverage of
@FilmThePoliceLA
in the most outlandish of terms. Charlatans? Is Scientology trying to pick some kind of fight with the mainstream media? Seems they can’t handle any criticism! 😵💫
How can the charlatans at the
@LATimes
call this kind of harassment a “protest”? The obvious intention of these anti-Scientology co-conspirators is to terrorize the entire neighborhood. And
@HBecerralatimes
and
@BJ_Terhune
support it.
@smc429
The sheer ridiculousness that this is somehow not as bad as it seems enables the minimization by the media that it wasn’t
#treason
. They literally were directly incited by Donald Trump in writing and on camera. He had a freaking rally! Shame on the 1/6 Denialism it is beneath us!
The outrageous hypocritical rulings from the Supreme Court only highlight why we have to push back harder on the doctrine of racism in this country. What meritocracy? The system wasn’t broken, in fact it was making progress. There is not a level playing field in this country!🎓⚖️
@smc429
Wray going to try and help Trump win in 2024. Biden needs to take a page from Zelensky and remove people who have lost trust. Biden removing Wray is not the same as Trump removing Comey. You can’t lead from the front when someone is waiting to stab you in the back!
#ArrestTrump
🗳️
@smc429
The GOP tactic here is clear. They want America to simply forget what happened under Donald Trump including loading the SCOTUS with an obnoxious goon like Brett Kavanaugh. Brett lied to Congress about his stance on Roe vs. Wade. If Trump wins in 2024, they will go even further!😨
Good news! The City of LA has stood down on evicting displaced families from LAPD’s fireworks disaster according to
@Erika_D_Smith
at the
@latimes
who helped out:
@hearinladotcom
@LAPD
I talked with Media Relations yesterday about
#SilverAlert
Ramón Balderrama who hasn’t been seen since Monday evening in Chinatown and it was like Silver Alert, for old people, oh that’s a CHP thing. About to go search my damn self for a third day. Help us
#FindRamon
#Missing
🙏📰
@smc429
CNN is being ridiculous. It's sad to see their network going down this right because during Trump they were at least somewhat useful. Now with this Chris Licht guy in charge it's like some propaganda channel. I'm not watching CNN anymore like I used to because of this for news.👎
If you live in Southern California right now and your car is parked under a tree, might suggest moving it to somewhere safe. No joking, we are going to be seeing some
#CAWx
rolling through starting with winds and then rain and snow. Be safe?
#Trees
#Cars
#Weather
#Problems
💨🌳🚗
@smc429
Lawyers love to do credibility testing. Donald Trump has none left. He has simply finally come across an accuser he can’t just disregard or weasel out of with his attorney’s. I believe E. Jean Carroll, it’s very clear that she didn’t just imagine this encounter. His time is up!⚖️
I used
#CPRA
to request email records from former
#LAPD
Chief Michel Moore relating to
@FilmThePoliceLA
and they've located responsive records but won't provide them until June 14, 2024. You never know what they'll give you, but this one should be interesting. Show me the emails!
@LePapillonBlu2
Questions: (1) When did Donald Trump first meet Vladimir Putin? (2) What were their discussions while he was President? (3) When will we learn more about his business dealings in Russia including beauty pageants and his tower?
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk
Shoutout to the person selling fruit right at the bottom of otherworldly
#AngelesCrestHighway
just the other day. You don’t see too many vendors up in the forest just along the road, plenty of space though! A couple years ago someone got married here and it was real news.
@LATACO
@smc429
Literally nothing that Chris Wray has done should instill confidence in the FBI. Honestly having a kind of hard time telling just what separates him out from the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover because that's the type of FBI we are seeing except when
#convenient
. Their agency is tarred.
The black mustard down in Rancho Palos Verdes is very high this year. It’s a little bit like crawling through a maze of tiny yellow sticky flowers out in Three Sisters Reserve and Upper Filorium. Pretty nice day until the fog and clouds rolled in late so no sunset!
#Photography
🌼
Great capture of
@JessPalmadessa
attempting to report being physically assaulted by Scientologists at the La Poubelle Bistro & Bar. She took a punch to the chest on camera and I saw her hand get slapped through the outdoor dining tent.
#LosAngeles
#Photography
🔥🔍📰😎🐿️🖤📸🙏
Pretty impressive turnout for Unions Strike Back at Arena and L.A. Live this afternoon. Los Angeles is clearly a resurgent union town. We need better wages and more protections for workers across the board. The staggering inequality of wealth must end!✊🪧
@TangoBleperdy
@BLMLA
No. The reason
@kdeleon
doesn't get the benefit of the doubt on this one is because he should have resigned along with Nury Martinez. That said, my reporting, and my strong
#suspicion
is that
@RickCarusoLA
and his campaign are behind the recordings. Divide and steal.
#ResignKDL
🪞
La Poubelle Bistro & Bar moved an unhoused man out from inside their patio onto the sidewalk, without doing anything but supposedly giving him some water. I called 911 for LAFD to come and they transported him for further treatment. Such a terrible place for anyone to dine!
#News
Shoutout to
@MichaelCohen212
for joining LA in demanding the resignation of
@kdeleon
- Make sure to pick-up Disloyal and then Revenge. Michael knows all about how hardball politics work! Thank you Michael for speaking out against racist Donald Trump and
@kdeleon
too!
#ResignKDL
✊
It’s the uninformed and opinionated who have so much to say. Read Disloyal and then Revenge. Then you will know the truth, the facts and appreciate what I have been and continue to do. Otherwise, you should keep your mouth closed and find someone to properly educate you.
@NBedera
I've been going through the same type of thing with
@USC
. People can't believe that I would ever talk publicly about what I went through there, but really it's alarming how common place the
#culture
of mistreatment is there. Always the tip of the iceberg with abusing people, sad.
Round 9 - Final: Hakeem Jeffries of New York - 212, Kevin McCarthy of California - 200, Byron Donalds of Florida - 17, Others - 3, Present - 1. This is desperate,
@GOP
is wasting America's time with this
#spectacle
of failing nonsense.
#KevinMcCarthy
#KevinMcCarthyIsALoser
😞🥁🐘
@smc429
The answer is simple. They are all guilty so I have no idea why DOJ can’t get their crap together and put Ginni, Donald and the rest in the slammer like they did in Brazil.
@ExtremeArturo
knows what I’m talking about - it’s “fascism creep” and it’s an attack on all good people!⚖️
So I didn’t watch the
#SuperBowl
but I did catch the sunset down in
#PalosVerdes
yesterday and it was epic as usual. To get to Three Sisters Reserve park on Ocean Terrace Road off of Crest Road. You don’t need to pay for parking at this trailhead unlike at the end of Crenshaw!🌅
Last night at La Poubelle Bistro & Bar a man approached the anti-Scientology protest with his head down covered by a baseball cap before telling me: "You're going to die bro." This absolutely will not stop my reporting on owner Francoise Koster or the Church of Scientology.
#News
@nhanson_reports
My colleague
@ShotOn35mm
has been all over this topic down in Los Angeles. He's even developed a texting service to let people know sanitation sweep schedules. Super
#journalism
work happening at the
@LATACO
and here's his first story on the topic: 📰
#News
This is the response of a public official to media requests to tour San Diego's new homeless tent facility. People keep telling me that somehow these people are like adults, but this response shows the exact opposite.
@drolland
should find out what it's like to live in a tent!🚫
@smc429
I’m personally happy they both took hard tumbles. My GF used to try and make me watch Russel Brand and it was really obvious he was just telling people what they wanted to hear for controversy. Andrew Tate is disgusting! Greta Thunberg should whip him again with a pizza box! 🍕📰
Also if you haven’t make sure to subscribe to
@meghanncuniff
on Substack for regular trial and court news. She’s awesome and writes great, thorough reports! I talked with a few people about this last night and it’s an LA political stunner. MRT was a giant:
Last night I was swatted by
#LAPD
while waiting to see if Scientologist restauranteur Francoise Koster was still around with her stalking crew. Kidnapping call this time! I was cuffed and released after no victim was found.
@FilmThePoliceLA
@JessPalmadessa
BREAKING: District Attorney George Gascón has referred the
#LAFedTapes
case to City Attorney Hydee Feldstein-Soto for misdemeanor prosecution consideration. Charges include eavesdropping and invasion of privacy, PC 632 and PC 631 against Santos Leon and Karla Vasquez.
#Journalism
@i_p_a_1
Coming from Los Angeles, this video is stunning to see because it shows the reality of what the border scene in
#ElPaso
is like.
#Respect
for documenting this and it doesn't look like an "invasion" to me, just people looking for somewhere better and safe. That's the spirit of US!
A political consulting firm employed by Rick Caruso’s Mayoral Campaign got caught in Orange County by the DA engaged in a conspiracy to take away a Buena Park Council seat by illegal means. So did Rick have to forge signatures too or just this OC Nazi?🔥🔍
@bessbell
People seriously don't understand the effect that experiencing and witnessing
#antisemitism
has on child development. Hearing my classmates talk about it even in elementary school, still has an imprint on my
#subconsciousness
. At least Camille Vasquez said no way to Kanye! 🙁✡️🧠
These comments from
@CurrenDPriceJr
are ridiculous, arguing that people are "gaming the system" by getting lawyers or struggling to find affordable housing after theirs was blown-up in a bad
@LAPDHQ
fireworks disposal operations needs at least some basis:
@smc429
I did this 6 weekends straight after the 2016 elections on
#Saturday
in front of his golf club in Palos Verdes. You could see it start turning then from surprise he won to militant hatefulness. We must defeat the
#MAGA
and preserve American democracy.
#Insurrection
#Conspiracy
🇺🇸
Shoutout to my dear mentor Gustavo Arellano for featuring my latest story in his newsletter. Everyone should be supporting local independent journalism in Los Angeles! What happens next at Oceanwide Plaza and when? News :)
😎📰
I’m at the LA City Council meeting today to see if Curren Price will be suspended following 10 felony charges for illegal conflict of interest in relation to votes in favor of developer Thomas Safran, embezzling health benefits for his wife in relation to these deals and perjury.
@smc429
The Respect for Child Survivors Act is a good first step toward improvement but it won’t mean much if the culture of the FBI doesn’t change. Republican opposition is disgraceful:
Shoutout to
@EunissesH
for being the awesome
#AdultInTheRoom
and talking about how the
#LAPD
has killed three people already who were suffering mental health crises. I'm sure the families appreciate it, and it's something that needs to be talked about. We need better response! 🙏
Eloquent as ever
@DocMellyMel
speaks against ending COVID-19 rent protections and demands continued accountability on police brutality noting that she came with a letter from the family of
#KeenanAnderson
and that progress is being made on puling police from traffic stops.
@BLMLA
Tom Girardi post-conviction perp walk! Dude gets found
#guilty
of four counts of Federal wire fraud by a jury and he’s still chuckling. Sentencing is December 6 at 1:30 pm before Judge Josephine Staton. Nice to see justice served!
#LosAngeles
#Journalism
#News
#Justice
#Courts
📰
EXCLUSIVE: I used the California Public Records Act
#CPRA
to get 146 pages on
@RickCarusoLA
@LAPDChiefMoore
and Sam Garrison whose name most people don't know. The emails show how Operation Progress brought Caruso Affiliated and LAPD closer, and how Sam Garrison works for Caruso.
Rick Caruso was not an “outsider candidate” unless you forget his time at LAPD, DWP, and the money he has pumped into City Hall. Terming these as “secretly recorded” without noting the felonious nature of this act and the LAPD investigation is not helpful:
@TonyOrtega94
@LeahRemini
That press release is laughable. LAPD is desperate to explain away Palka. We at USC want answers too since Rick Caruso is on Deposition (pg.33) speaking with a mystery LAPD Captain on his cellphone (pg.44). He claims to not remember the name which is just not a credible story.
@JonnyPeltz
Now I'm definitely not
#voting
for Adam Schiff. I've been trying to stay off having a firm opinion about the Senate race yet, but I'll lean toward his opponents Katie Porter and Barbara Lee if this is what Schiff's campaign is going to stand for, win at all costs.
@LindseyBoylan
So I’ve been out there for weeks and contrary to the claims made by the Church of Scientology that activists are wasting taxpayer dollars on fake 911 calls it really appears to be the Church doing it all. Since when was it okay to intimidate protestors with public resources? 🐿️📰
"California law enforcement was more than twice as likely to use force against people they perceived as Black during vehicle and pedestrian stops in 2021, as compared to people believed to be white" -
@AP
#Story
#Policing
#Governance
#Reviews
#Law
#Equity
:
Let’s all pull for
@AntoinetteForLA
to get on the ballot. Looks like she has paid her fee and I myself saw they were making every effort to get enough signatures. If season
#MVP
@CaliCre8ive
got the 📝 then let’s have 3 candidates on the CD-6 ballot to replace old Nury Martinez!
Tomorrow's the deadline for candidates seeking to replace L.A. Councilmember Nury Martinez to turn in their nominating petitions. For now, only two have qualified for the ballot, per the City Clerk
More from LAPD swatting me early Sunday morning! Really liking the there must be a kidnapping victim in your trunk aspect of this matter, plus I’m clearly being targeted now as a journalist for investigating Francoise Koster and Scientology. ⚖️
#LosAngeles
#Journalism
#LAPD
🖤😎
I recently read "Corrections in Ink" by
@keribla
which is an excellent read for anyone interested in addiction issues, mental health, and incarceration. So often we dehumanize addicts and criminals in ways that are totally counterproductive to healing. 📚⛸️
@FilmThePoliceLA
I like how they let the Church of Scientology's claim that the protestors and not the Church are making the 911 calls go completely unchallenged. I haven't seen any signs that's the case covering this story, in fact, it's the opposite,
#Scientology
is making the calls w/impunity.
#Bobcat
hanging out peacefully at Fuji Camp up at Henninger Flats high above busy Eaton Canyon in Pasadena in the mid-afternoon. Walked out one exhausted hiker. Reminder never to separate from your group and have a plan for what to do after dark in mountains for light + calories!
This tragic incident is yet another reminder of why we need to see the complete unedited footage from LAPD rather than suggestively narrated videos. The people of LA can make up their own minds! Condolences to the family of Mariela Cardenas for their loss.
Bad news for Cory Palka! He's out of being just in trouble with
#LAPD
Internal Affairs and per the
@latimes
@LAcrimes
he's now being targeted by a "federal corruption prosecutor." I will have to see if Mack Jenkins will take my call on Caruso's Deposition:
The hike up Echo Mountain to see the snow yesterday in
#Altadena
was definitely super popular. To get up to the White City ruins you had to do the last stretch on some melt water and sleet mixture leftover as people and numerous dogs made their way up and down the
#trail
❄️
#CAwx
Requiring non-disclosure agreements as part of sexual harassment settlements is wrong and only shields the perpetrators. There’s a literal cottage industry of
#attorneys
who specialize in exactly this type of deal-making. They profit off of securing silence in exchange for money.
@SethGoldstein13
@CUNAMutualGroup
@CMG_UNITED
I’m not sure why employers think retaliation is okay, especially for organizing a Union. I can’t imagine a more terrible public image for a company than being one that targets it’s own workers for retaliation simply for seeking to protect their rights.
#Workplaces
#Respect
✊💪🇺🇸
Good Morning Twitter! We may be done with COVID-19 but the virus is definitely not done with us. We have One-Million dead
#Americans
and counting. The new variant
#XBB15
is simply another in the evolution of the virus. This pattern will not stop without major containment efforts!
⚠️NEXT BIG ONE—CDC has royally screwed up—unreleased data shows
#XBB15
, a super variant, surged to 40% US (CDC unreported for weeks!) & now causing hospitalization surges in NY/NE.➡️XBB15–a new recombinant strain—is both more immune evasive & better at infecting than
#BQ
& XBB.🧵
Please support my friends at the
@LATACO
including
@el_tragon_de_LA
and
@ShotOn35mm
who make a positive contribution to journalism in Los Angeles. We need more voices in our society and they are essential to the news fabric in the city and beyond. Proud to be a Member!
#LATaco
🌮
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@AshishKJha46
#COVID19
will still be an emergency on May 12. My mother has it right now, we have to stop playing move the goal posts and accept we have a responsibility to control the outbreak. This means
#Testing
and isolating the sick, otherwise this will likely just keep going on.
#Pandemic
@ronlin
Outrageous acts deep in the heart of Orange County. There should be no place for mass gun violence in our society. That this is a former law enforcement officer is even worse.
@GustavoArellano
I hope people learn that problems are not solved with guns.
#OrangeCounty
#Guns
#News
🙏
@joaquinlife
I believe
@joaquinlife
the smirk on her face as he frankly and passionately states her case is reminiscent of the Nury Martinez style politics we see happening in SoCal and especially in communities like Downey. I hope you get a fair investigation! She made a false police report.
@JonnyPeltz
Councilmember Monica Rodriguez has simply forgotten that two wrongs don’t make a right whether excusing the racist
#LAFed
tapes or the bloated
#LAPD
budget. We can all agree last night could have been better, and still think
#KDL
needs to resign. These as toxic politics in
#LA
.🧌