I addressed Nithya Raman today at the LA City Council.
While campaigning for mayor, she’s touted the fact that she helped craft LA’s Sanctuary City policies, claiming LA doesn’t collaborate with ICE.
But… the LAPD admits they DO help, just not with apprehensions.
…Is that what she intended?
Hah I’ve been focusing mostly on Threads these days, so I appreciate the nudge to get back in the habit of crossposting here too!
The LAPD is working with ICE & lying about it.
After ICE throws our neighbors into cages in the B18 concentration camp in the Metro Detention Center, LAPD brutalizes protestors at the gate, but bc they’re just “guarding” the camp, they don’t report it
Excellent reporting by @ericanders.bsky.social
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If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!
wait I was six months off lol
I cannot believe we reinvented Pizzagate
The reporting around this has been breathtakingly irresponsible. He said the SURGE was over, not that the operation would end, and he said they were drawing down the surge because they’d secured “unprecedented” cooperation with state and local law enforcement to do crowd control.
This is the corner of Temple & Alameda, right near the Metro Detention Center; there were already dozens of LAPD right there because they closed off the block to prevent high school students from holding a protest at the MDC
These are photos of the LAPD doing the bidding of a masked ICE agent whose shirt possibly signals his membership in a far-right extremist militia group trying to spark a civil war.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell says it’s fine for him to wear a mask that says POLICE.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogalo...
At about 1m20 the most non-elite US mall ninja shows up with a bafflingly seemingly self inflicted bleeding nose, tucks a shotgun under his taint before tossing a munition canister god knows where, then starts shooting at journalists. If you saw this in a war videogame you’d think it was broken.
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
Every single person in America* 😌
I love when you tell people how terrible Newsom is, they're always like, "Well, it's nice to have ideals, but if it comes down to him or the Nazi in the general, *I* am going to vote for him"
WE'RE TELLING YOU HOW TERRIBLE HE IS NOW SO IT'S *NOT* A CHOICE BTW HIM & A NAZI, CARL. THAT'S THE POINT.
I think there is a difference between “respecting the press” and pushing someone back into the crowd they claimed to be trying to disperse because it would look bad if the LAPD were surrounded by protesters on all sides instead of the reverse
The other night I watched a cop literally named HELPER send someone through the police line and back into the crowd of protesters they were trying to disperse. He said the person was “ruining the media’s shot” and needed to get on that side of the police line if they wanted to demonstrate.
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ii. Ban on use of 40mm KIPS Plaintiffs request the Court ban LAPD’s use of 40mm KIPS as a crowd control tool, arguing that the Ninth Circuit has held that such munitions “are not intended to disperse an individual; they are intended to ‘incapacitate’ a target.” (Mot. at 15) (citing Nelson v. City of Davis, 685 F.3d 867, 873-74 (9th Cir. 2012); Deorle v. Rutherford, 272 F.3d 1272, 1285 (9th Cir. 2001). The Court’s May 10, 2021 Preliminary Injunction provides restrictions on LAPD’s use of 40mm munitions, including: a restriction on using the 40mm launchers in public
demonstrations except by officers who successfully completed Department training and meet all annual qualification requirements on the weapon; an officer may use 40mm less-lethal munitions only when the officer reasonably believes that a suspect is violently resisting arrest or poses an immediate threat of violence or physical harm; use of 40mm less-lethal munitions should be preceded by a warning, if feasible, consistent with the Use of Force Warning set forth in LAPD Use of Force – Tactics Directive No. 17; they should only be fired at a distance of five feet or greater from another person; and must not be used to target the head, neck, face, eyes, kidneys, chest, groin or spine of a person. (See Preliminary Injunction Order.) Here, Plaintiffs provide evidence that Defendants used 40mm munitions on protestors who did not pose an immediate threat of violence of physical harm, did not provide warnings before using the munitions, and hit protestors in restricted areas of the body. (See Exs. 152-153, 169-173, 176; Luksus Decl. ¶¶ 8-10; Ashby Decl. ¶¶ 1,3,6; Fernandez Decl. ¶¶ 2-6.) Defendants violated the Court’s Preliminary Injunction Order regarding certain restricted uses of the 40mm and therefore, a ban on 40mm launchers and less-lethal munitions is appropriate. The Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ request for a ban on the use of 40mm KIPs as a crowd control tool
![“If a violating party has taken all reasonable steps to comply with the court
order, technical or inadvertent violations of the order will not support a finding of
civil contempt.”) General Signal Corp. v. Donallco, Inc., 787 F.2d 1376, 1379
(9th Cir. 1986). “A contemnor in violation of a court order may avoid a finding of
civil contempt only by showing it took all reasonable steps to comply with the
order.” Kelly v. Wengler, 822 F.3d 1085, 1096 (9th Cir. 2016). Here, Plaintiffs
argue that Defendants directly violated the Court’s Preliminary Injunction by
“repeatedly [shooting] individuals in the face, eye, groin and back” with 40mm
weapons. (Mot at 10.) Because the Circuit has held that the 40mm munition is not
intended to disperse crowds, but “is chiefly designed, intended, and used for the
purpose of incapacitating its target,” Sanderlin v. Dwyer, 116 F.4th 905, 912 (9th
Cir. 2024), Plaintiffs argue these instances are not “technical or inadvertent” so as
to allow Defendants to avoid liability. (Id.)
However, Defendants have not demonstrated substantial compliance or that
all reasonable steps have been taken to be in compliance with the Court’s
Preliminary Injunction Order. (See Dkt. No. 243 at 4-7; Quiroz Decl. ¶ 4) (e.g.,
Crown management/Crowd Control management training, Crowd Management
and Control for Patrol training, requiring officers to undergo 24 hours of
perishable skills training every two years which includes use of force, LAPD
disseminated the content of the TRO to all personnel, and a notice to all personal
after the modified TRO was issued on April 28, 2021, LAPD issued nine
directives and policy updates regarding the use of 37mm and 40mm LLMs
between September 2021 and May 2025). Defendants do not argue that the
exceptions to the Preliminary Injunction Order apply here (e.g., if a protestor is
violently resisting arrest, poses an immediate threat of violence or physical harm,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vnsn3gjqvtaianuuziyiqxlx/bafkreiasowqazj7cr3fk3qbghkvk75juqztyaab75kgw247rz4imhqpn64)
“If a violating party has taken all reasonable steps to comply with the court order, technical or inadvertent violations of the order will not support a finding of civil contempt.”) General Signal Corp. v. Donallco, Inc., 787 F.2d 1376, 1379 (9th Cir. 1986). “A contemnor in violation of a court order may avoid a finding of civil contempt only by showing it took all reasonable steps to comply with the order.” Kelly v. Wengler, 822 F.3d 1085, 1096 (9th Cir. 2016). Here, Plaintiffs argue that Defendants directly violated the Court’s Preliminary Injunction by “repeatedly [shooting] individuals in the face, eye, groin and back” with 40mm weapons. (Mot at 10.) Because the Circuit has held that the 40mm munition is not intended to disperse crowds, but “is chiefly designed, intended, and used for the purpose of incapacitating its target,” Sanderlin v. Dwyer, 116 F.4th 905, 912 (9th Cir. 2024), Plaintiffs argue these instances are not “technical or inadvertent” so as to allow Defendants to avoid liability. (Id.) However, Defendants have not demonstrated substantial compliance or that all reasonable steps have been taken to be in compliance with the Court’s Preliminary Injunction Order. (See Dkt. No. 243 at 4-7; Quiroz Decl. ¶ 4) (e.g., Crown management/Crowd Control management training, Crowd Management and Control for Patrol training, requiring officers to undergo 24 hours of perishable skills training every two years which includes use of force, LAPD disseminated the content of the TRO to all personnel, and a notice to all personal after the modified TRO was issued on April 28, 2021, LAPD issued nine directives and policy updates regarding the use of 37mm and 40mm LLMs between September 2021 and May 2025). Defendants do not argue that the exceptions to the Preliminary Injunction Order apply here (e.g., if a protestor is violently resisting arrest, poses an immediate threat of violence or physical harm,
HUGE. A fed judge in the BLM vs City of Los Angeles case has banned LAPD from using 40mm rubber bullets at protests. "Defendants have not demonstrated substantial compliance or that all reasonable steps have been taken to be in compliance with the Court’s Preliminary Injunction Order."
I keep saying that the government will not just announce that they are at war with the people but this statement is a pretty clear declaration
You think the fascist country that has killed millions around the world & was built on slavery & slaughter is “weak” & “scared?” Stop it. Take it seriously.
This weekend, while writing a section of my book on COIN & police militarization, I took a moment to situate ICE Agent Jonathan Ross' trajectory in the post 9/11 era. From the Army->Border Patrol->ICE: he *embodies* Imperial Feedback.
At Bleeding Edge ($$) bleeding-edge.ghost.io/jonathan-ros...
"The agents pressed his face against the pool of blood and did not immediately call paramedics. 'The other officers were mocking him, saying, ‘You’re going to lose your eye.'"
A brick wall painted bright red. There are three signs taped to the wall. One says ice is domestic terrorism another says ice kidnapped people here. And another says sick of this shit.
Henry Rivas was the worker who was taken by ICE from this spot in Echo Park. He was in the middle of painting this building when ICE rolled up and took him. You can support his family below:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
The mother of Keith Porter speaking during today’s L.A. City Council meeting partsofanovelimdoing.substack.com/p/we-are-out...
Who do you go to for help when, in front of a room of some of the most powerful people in LA, a policeman laughs with a man wearing a swastika *while* the mother of a man murdered by the government sobs and begs those powerful people — ignoring the cop laughing with swastika man — for justice?
At the first LA City Council meeting of the year
There’s a guy in a swastika hoodie
Someone confronted him
LAPD kicked out THAT guy for being disruptive
And then laughed with the guy in the swastika hoodie about it
Gotta say: I am really losing patience for the "What are we even supposed to do?!" posts from people who have been doing nothing except posting "What are we even supposed to do?!" every six weeks, whenever another escalation finally gets national attention.
...idk, but, do more than that!
You shouldn’t avoid protesting from fear of martial law, they should fear getting to the point that they’ll need to implement it. Don’t police your reactions, police their actions. They are the criminals not you.
The fact that ICE just straight-up murdered a woman named Good is the kind of thing that’s so on-the-nose it would be rejected by a creative writing 101 professor. Yet here we are.
