Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

In Willowbrook, CA in the aftermath of a shooting by immigration agents. DHS says the person they were attempting to arrest “was not hit and attempted to flee on foot.” DHS claims he “weaponized his vehicle and rammed law enforcement.”

Immigration agents are choking people in America's streets & using tactics against their own policy/training. Many LEO agencies have banned their use A Colombian TikToker. An ICU nurse. A father holding his child. A 16-year-old citizen DHS calls this "utmost professionalism" w/ @mckenziefunk.com

You know things are bad when both the DA and Sheriff are concerned that their side is winning in court TOO much. Another great one by the great Anat Rubin: calmatters.org/investigatio...

Private equity has found a new source of profit: volunteer fire departments. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Watching this sport is like standing around in the waiting area of an emergency room

Huntington Beach, CA - Members of Patriot Front, and several explicitly Neo-Nazi active clubs marching through Huntington Beach right now. Led by “Culture War Criminal” Ryan Sanchez, they are mostly being received warmly by a Charlie Mirk memorial demonstration at Huntington Beach Pier.

ACLU argues Border Patrol broke court order with high-profile Sacramento raid w/ @sergioolmos.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2025...

CA DoJ wrote in Newsom vs Trump briefs that federal troops' arrival brought out more protests. Also, the protests after Paramount were limited to like a 5 or 6 block area in downtown LA, maybe .2 sq miles in a city that's 500 sq miles. The protesters were largely focused on federal troops and ICE.

The Trump Administration just asked the Supreme Court to let federal agents in LA target people based on race or ethnicity. Here’s exactly what that means W/ @evidentmedia.org

Los Angeles City Council member Ysabel Jurado on the Border Patrol raid outside the Japanese National Museum where Gov. Newsom held a press conference calling for a special November election

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta say yes. Trump’s DOJ says no. The three-day trial to answer this question is scheduled to commence today at 10 a.m. with implications for the country as Trump continues to signal a desire to deploy troops to patrol domestic city streets.

“The federal government has now gone running to the Supreme Court asking it to undo a narrow court order—applicable in only one judicial district—that merely compels them to follow the Constitution.” Said the ACLU W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2025...

BREAKING: Trump administration asks #SCOTUS to lift federal judge's order barring "roving" immigration raids in Los Angeles area. Filing says 1 in 10 residents of the district are undocumented immigrants. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

"What you're basically doing is deconstructing ICE and DHS and their strategies and letting viewers, readers, listeners see for themselves." Thank you to Latino USA for hosting @sergioolmos.bsky.social and featuring our latest reporting in collaboration with @calmatters.org and @bellingcat.com.

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“A Times investigation: As west Altadena burned, L.A. County fire trucks stayed elsewhere. …only one L.A. County fire truck was west of Lake Avenue, where nearly all of the deaths took place.” Via @rellis.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

"In west Altadena — where thousands of structures would burn and all but one of the 19 deaths from the Eaton fire would occur — there was just 1 county fire truck as the flames spread at 3:08 a.m., according to automatic vehicle locator data obtained by The Times." www.latimes.com/california/s...

Very nice shoutout for @calmatters today for our FOIA work from @nickmiroff.bsky.social in his excellent profile on Bovino in @theatlantic.com. W/ @sergioolmos.bsky.social

Bonus: this 2018 email to Bovino from his friend, the Border Patrol official he hired to be his #2 in New Orleans, from the court files of a discrimination lawsuit DHS lost storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

H/t to @sergioolmos.bsky.social and @calmatters.org for their stellar coverage of Bovino's rise calmatters.org/economy/2025...

NEW: our profile of Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official running the immigration raids on the streets of Los Angeles, and what his role portends for next phase of Trump's propaganda-driven deportation campaign @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“Gregory Bovino has taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to the streets of California.” Via @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Border Patrol agents moved their operations northward to Ca’s capital, targeting a Home Depot in Sacramento, more than 500 miles away from the border.  W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social @addonohue.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2025...

DHS secretary Noem on federal court ruling blocking roving immigration patrols in Los Angeles: “He’s an idiot” referring to federal judge(who’s a woman) “Our operations will continue, we will be in compliance with all federal judges orders.”

A federal judge says the LA immigration sweeps must stop. Because agents can’t just approach Latinos without a warrant or reasonable suspicion. And they can’t deny detainees access to a lawyer. calmatters.org/justice/2025...

Portland got a shout-out in in the DHS blog today. Come for the drama, stay for the feds' translation of "Chinga la Migra." www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07...

Just came through my desk: Per Los Angeles District Attorney, an armed off-duty U.S. Border Patrol Officer was charged with assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest in the Shoreline Village parking lot in the city of Long Beach on July 7.

Bass’ new executive order also will direct the office to file a FOIA request to ICE to “obtain records regarding the dates and locations of all enforcement activities in Los Angeles,” dates and reason for arrests and detainments and “policies governing officers’ use of badges.”

Greetings! I’m at Pico House - El Pueblo in downtown Los Angeles, where Mayor Karen Bass has a press conference regarding a new Executive Directive she’s signing. The direction will instruct “city departments to bolster their protocols and training to prepare for federal immigration activity…”

NEW: I spoke to a dozen current and formers about low morale at ICE amid the Trump admin's relentless push for more and more arrests. Officers and agents aren't complaining or looking for sympathy but they're facing public anger & political pressure from above www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

You can find Evident’s short documentary also covering the investigation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bux...

Discover the common themes we identified across all of the arrests by reading the full investigation here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...

Gregory Bovino, head of the El Centro unit in the Bakersfield Raids, is now in-charge of the operations across LA. Agents from his El Centro Border Patrol unit have featured in footage of the LA raids. calmatters.org/investigatio...

The raids bear similarities to incidents previously investigated by Bellingcat, @calmatters.org and @evidentmedia.org in California. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...

In some footage collected from the LA raids in June, officers can be seen using significant force to detain people.

On more than one occasion it was unclear what agency officers were with due to a lack of clear identification, including unmarked vehicles. Officers also made efforts to obscure their identity from cameras.

The footage shows agents from the likes of Border Patrol (BP) and, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arresting people in public spaces, from car washes to swap meets, in places of work and outside residences.

We collected videos of more than 100 incidents of arrest between June 6 and June 30 in Los Angeles and the immediate surrounding areas. We’ve provided a full list of the incidents for viewing and downloading here: bellingcat-embeds.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/2025-us-bord...

Armed officers, frequent use of force and people grabbed on the street or at their places of work. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we have monitored the LA raids, discovering recurring trends and tactics used by officers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...

We just published this visual investigation of more than 100 videos to find patterns in ICE raids in LA. You can see how these raids mirror the raids that a court halted in CA's Eastern district earlier this year. @bellingcat.com @calmatters.org @evidentmedia.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bux...

Masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles. Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus. Street vendors tackled to the ground and forcefully held down. We collected videos of just over 100 incidents. W/ @evidentmedia.org , @bellingcat.com youtu.be/6BuxaVdv7po?...

New 3-minute documentary from @calmatters.org @sergioolmos.bsky.social @bellingcat.com @evidentmedia.org show comprehensively how widespread the immigration raids in the Los Angeles area have been. Doc geotagged/verified 100+ videos of raids These occurred at: -15+ Home Depots -Private farmland

Press conference on coalition of legal groups, including ACLU, lawsuit against DHS over immigration raids in Los Angeles. “We will not be intimidated” -Angelica Salas, executive director of @chirla-org.bsky.social

‘Brazen, midday kidnappings:’ LA immigration sweeps violate Constitution, lawsuit says. W/ @wendyfry.bsky.social @addonohue.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2025...

Press conference for Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon who was taken by immigration agents outside Jack in the Box on Wednesday June 25th in Los Angeles. The family says since she was taken they can’t find her.

… These are not enemy combatants in a war zone, but people living and working in America’s second largest city.” @sergioolmos.bsky.social @wendyfry.bsky.social Lauren Hepler and Anat Rubin on the LA immigration raids. calmatters.org/investigatio...

"The masked agents pull up quickly. They jump out of unmarked vans or trucks." "Their families won’t know what happened to them. They’ll be shackled, whisked away to another state" "These are the stories three of them told" Must read 👀⤵️

Taken: LA immigration raids Masked men pull up quickly and approach Latino men. When someone runs, they’re taken. When they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. When they can’t produce papers, they’re taken.  calmatters.org/investigatio... @wendyfry.bsky.social @addonohue.bsky.social

Gregory Bovino is running Border Patrol’s LA operation right now. His last raid was a total mess. And he sees no difference between a farm worker and a fentanyl dealer. w/ @sergioolmos.bsky.social @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/investigatio...