LAPD and other Los Angeles official go to such extremes to hide what happens at homeless encampment sweeps. Even handcuffed @shoton35mm.bsky.social inside a police car! Feels like a big coverup. I've hounded city officials about it. They just stick heads in sand. Glad Lex is dragging them to court.

After claiming Gabby Giffords, the retired American politician turned gun-control advocate, also attended the event at Damian with Tucker Carlson, a staffer confirmed that she wasn't even in Los Angeles at the time. Full story: lataco.com/rick-caruso-... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

A spokesperson for Damian told L.A. TACO: “Just to be clear, this event was planned by a third party that only used the venue on a day that Damian was closed.” By @shoton35mm.bsky.social The full story: lataco.com/tucker-carls...

BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters. Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers: "The First Amendment demands better."

Garnet fire burns into grove of giant sequoias; several behemoths are in flames

Legend @shoton35mm.bsky.social on Hasan stream 🙌🏻

A war veteran attended a protest in June. He was arrested in July and now faces a federal charge for conspiracy, which carries a maximum penalty of 6 years and a $250,000 fine. Reporting here by @aglantz.bsky.social:

3 L.A. County deputies relieved of duty after alleged off-duty beating of man at bar

Journalists Pay Themselves is coming to an end this month. Here’s what’s next. journalistspaythemselves.com/p/journalist...

Nunez is accused of towing the federal vehicle during the August 15 arrest of Tatiana Mafla-Martinez, a TikToker who had been documenting immigration raids in Los Angeles. He faces 10 years in federal prison. By @shoton35mm.bsky.social The full story: lataco.com/tow-truck-dr...

BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Why run a subscriber drive together? @lizkellynelson.com explains the thinking behind the Back Indie Media Drive we’re doing this month at Project C newsletter.projectc.biz/p/back-indie...

Erazo also noted that tear gas was used at a time when parents were taking their kids to school and innocent bystanders were on their way to work. Details: lataco.com/westlake-hom... by @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Tear gas canisters and pepper balls fired during a Border Patrol immigration raid this morning in Westlake. @lataco.bsky.social

Dozens of protesters with @jvp.bsky.social L.A. have taken over the lobby of the building where @schiff.senate.gov's future Burbank office will be. 🎥: @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace have taken over the lobby of Senator Schiff's future office in Burbank. Reporting on the ground for @lataco.bsky.social

Journalist @shoton35mm.bsky.social was shoved by a LAPD police officer while covering an immigration protest in downtown LA on Aug. 12. "There’s definitely things that we missed because we were not able to move around freely," he said.

Hodgson was charged with 7 felonies and misdemeanors for drunkenly approaching a woman with a firearm in a women’s restroom and then later injuring a police officer while resisting arrest. He was also connected to the arrests of 2 U.S. citizens. lataco.com/isaiah-antho... @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Scarcity mindset is killing indie journalism. There's plenty to go around...so why are journalists afraid to even ask? journalistspaythemselves.com/p/scarcity-m...

“I think the more likely scenario is a forced-to-carry-this-to-term situation, where we actually decide we don’t want it, and we are not allowed to get rid of it.” Loved talking with @gustavoarellano.bsky.social, Joe Mathews, and @hawthorne.bsky.social about the viability of the 2028 games

Since Trump deployed troops to Los Angeles, federal and local law enforcement have repeatedly assaulted journalists and protesters, per a new lawsuit. More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

On Thursday, a black metal fence approximately 8' in height was installed along the perimeter of the driveway leading to the federal Metropolitan Detention Center on Alameda Street in DTLA. 🎥 by @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Bombing down Grand Street on a bike in Downtown Los Angeles. #BikeWave

Trump repeatedly cited homelessness as an excuse for flooding DC with cops and troops, conflating being unhoused with being a criminal. He's building on a bipartisan policy consensus that's surged across blue and red states and cities. New from me @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1991...

Over three days at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, hundreds of plant lovers and the plant-curious streamed in and out to bask in the beauty of cacti and succulents. By @afroxander.bsky.social Full story: lataco.com/biggest-cact...

Six states (OH, WV, SC, TN, LA, MS) have pledged more than 1,100 National Guardsmen to go to DC. There are now 2,091 total National Guard troops activated for DC operations, per official numbers. Unclear how many hundreds of various federal agents were surged in as well. End point? Unclear.

if you, a non-Angeleno, wants to know what is going on in Los Angeles, I really recommend @lataco.bsky.social and @awalkerinla.bsky.social's newsletter about the Olympics

LA jails posted their 33rd in custody death for this year -- and this one was at the Lancaster sheriff's station

If anyone spots a Punisher skull patch/tattoo/bumper sticker on the feds in DC, let me know.

I swear, every time I’m reporting and @shoton35mm.bsky.social is there, the LAPD find some way of fucking with him. At Tues protest, a motorcycle cop shoves Lex (who has his press pass up!) multiple times as he tries to cover an incident between LAPD and demonstrators.

The man whose identity has not been disclosed was transported to a local hospital, where he ultimately succumbed to his injuries. By @janettev.bsky.social & @shoton35mm.bsky.social This is a developing story. lataco.com/monrovia-man...

Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino and federal agents stop in front of artist Barbara Kruger's iconic mural outside of MOCA while waiting for a traffic light to change. The mural reads, "Who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose?" @lataco.bsky.social

In response to LAPD’s outrageous and violent violations of our temporary restraining order on Friday, lawyers for @lapressclub.bsky.social have filed for contempt. 10 journalists were battered, bloodied, zip-tied, and/or kettled. LAPD can’t police itself. Now it must answer to the judge it defied.

'Help me, please!': Video captures ICE arrest outside L.A. courthouse, the latest instance where they've used the much derided tactic here in Southern California www.latimes.com/california/s...

HAPPENING NOW: Day 3 of the bench trial in Newsom v. Trump. The state of California is seeking to enjoin Trump's use of the military for law enforcement purposes. Judge Charles Breyer just took the bench to hear legal argument from the parties. I'm covering for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow 🧵⬇️🧵

Los Angeles, CA - Sorry for the long wait! As LAPD motorcycle units arrived, they begin to speak with the driver of a vehicle. One officer demands investigative reporter Lexis Olivier-Ray move back, eventually shoves him. Officers prepare to push the crowd into three different directions from MDC.

Journalists in Los Angeles having issues with LAPD at protest today: 1. Say you're "press" (officers don't know all outlets) 2. Ask EXACT legal basis for closed area (i.e. state code # or municipal code #), try to get on video 3. Say their chief issued them a direct order requiring press access:

I'm stuck at work all day and don't do the kind of protest coverage I used to/wish I did. Please go follow @lapublicpress.bsky.social @melbuer.bsky.social @shoton35mm.bsky.social and other great local LA reporters for info on today's rallies and marches.

LAPD preemptively blocked off Alameda Street between Commercial and Temple Streets, before an anti-ICE demonstration that began in MacArthur Park arrived. @lataco.bsky.social

COMING UP: Judge Charles Breyer is set to preside over a bench trial in Newsom v. Trump The suit, brought by Governor Gavin Newsom, challenges Trump’s use of federal military forces to enforce immigration in California. I plan to live-post for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️🧵

Bombing down Mt. Hollywood Drive in Griffith Park today during a 20 mile bike ride.

Here’s the moment LAPD ordered media along with protestors against the wall, despite requests for a supervisor as well as reminders that PC409.7(b) specifically exempts media from dispersal orders. Never made contact with a PIO. didn’t speak with a supervisor for a very long time after being cuffed.

'They run, we chase': Immigration raids test limits of "probable cause"

Asked if he hit his head during the collision, LAPD Lt. Matthew Ensley responded, “Absolutely not, I didn’t even know I got into a crash until you guys showed up.” Full story: lataco.com/lapd-ensley-... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

“For those who thought immigration enforcement had stopped in Southern California, think again,” acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli wrote on X shortly after the raid. The full story: lataco.com/trojan-horse... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

When LA city workers began sounding alarms to civil rights attorney Connie Rice that LA's leaders were about to strike a bad deal with LA28, Rice compiled their grave concerns in a 7-page letter to Mayor Karen Bass. After what we saw at the White House this week, Rice's words are even more urgent

Two months later, a new light pole is installed.

Trump's top federal prosecutor in L.A. struggles to secure indictments in protest cases

Join me and @samkbloch.bsky.social on 8/6 to discuss his highly anticipated book 'Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource,' a timely and essential examination of extreme heat that traces the history of shade worldwide — but still includes entire chapters all about LA's policy failures