Alissa, Mike, and Godfrey on the terrifying U.S. military invasion of MacArthur Park that sent LA Mayor Karen Bass racing to the scene. Why homicides in LA have hit a 60-year low (hint: it’s not because of cops). And when LA County voters approved the governmental-reform Measure G in 2024 they inadvertently invalidated the anti-incarceration Measure J, passed in 2020. Whoops!
The Guardian: “The troops were deployed to a mostly empty MacArthur Park in the neighborhood of the same name for about an hour, some on horseback and others in armored military vehicles. Agents were also operating an armored vehicle with a mounted rifle”
Capital and Main: “When ICE came up empty”
Alissa’s story on how traumatizing kids at a rec center summer camp has made LA parents even more uneasy
Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez: “What you see happening in MacArthur Park is coming to you”
Ken Klippenstein published alleged leaked documents detailing the goal of “Operation Excalibur”
Vets About Face created an important video explaining why the U.S. military does these “shows of presence” in occupied regions
CalMatters, Bellingcat, and Evident Media analyzed 100 ICE raids in Southern California and highlighted some troubling (and unconstitutional) tactics
The City of LA, LA County, Pasadena, Montebello, Monterey Park, Santa Monica, Culver City, Pico Rivera, and West Hollywood joined the ACLU’s lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security. After we recorded, a ruling siding with ACLU from Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong “temporarily blocked the Trump administration from using racial profiling to carry out indiscriminate immigration arrests.” Read the order here
Day labor advocates were arrested for allegedly planting tire spikes (they’ve been released); an astonishing 12-hour standoff with Ventura County farmworkers ended with over 200 people kidnapped and one farmworker, Jaime Alanis, dead. Here’s how to support the families
Wired: New DHS guidance “urges officers to consider a range of nonviolent behavior and common protest gear — like masks, flashlights, and cameras — as potential precursors to violence”
New Gallup polling shows Trump’s immigration policy is becoming very, very un
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