The rally starts marching down Rodeo Drive
There’s a whole sub genre of music that has been rewritten with Trump-centric lyrics. First time I’ve heard La Bomba.
Crowd gets amped up and marches back down Rodeo for the second time today
A woman finds out that someone put a Trump bumper sticker on her car. She was yelling at the Trump supporters out of her sun roof.
A very very LA moment. A Hollywood tour bus stuck in traffic cheers on the passing marchers.

One marcher says, “Welcome to the United States!”

I ask a passenger where he’s from: “Arizona.”
Some of the private armed security hired by the city to help out during election week and possibly beyond.

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31 Oct
On the ground at the final Beverly Hills Freedom Rally before the election. While it was scheduled to start at 3, people began showing up before 12.

Counter protesters plan on showing up.
In anticipation of potential civil unrest around the election, the city decided to cover up its art, including the Beverly Hills sign in Beverly Gardens Park (seen here as a black and white cookie).
Tabling to recall Gavin Newsom
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24 Oct
Thirty minutes in and the Trump “Freedom Rally” in Beverly Hills has attracted its largest crowd to date, by my estimation.

I’ll be covering the rally here, so follow for updates.
A definite paucity of masks, even after the country registers its highest one day tally in COVID-19 cases
Confederate flag hanging under one of the many tents here
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24 Oct
A group of 50 LGBT Trump supporters are marching through West Hollywood. They have marched from the Pacific Design Center to Rocco’s, right in the heart of Boy’s Town. 4 sheriff’s patrol cars are following.
Lots of middle fingers and some booing. Christian Walker, one of the more prominent personalities here, does flips across the street.
One man yells at Lady MAGA, a Trump supporting drag queen, saying that other drag queen died for her right to walk in her heels
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12 Oct
DTLA: Police have reportedly issued a dispersal order to the crowd celebrating the Lakers’ win tonight as dozens of police drive to the scene
Behind police lines in front of Staples Center, where a large crowd in purple and gold chants “Kobe” while shooting off fireworks
Police have used less lethal on one of the crowds
Read 34 tweets
11 Oct
HAPPENING NOW: Activists with Dance for Black Lives have taken over Wilshire Blvd just down the street from LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s house
Multiple squad cars have arrived in front of the mayor’s house, forming a barricade on his street.
A protester demands a dance with Eric Garcetti.
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10 Oct
Covering the Freedom Rally in Beverly Hills, a weekly Trump rally in Beverly Hills that’s grown to one of the largest regular pro-Trump events in Los Angeles.

Event scheduled to start at 3 and already around 200 here.

Stay posted for updates!
Moderate police presence, but no more than usual. BHPD has taken to setting up cordons in Beverly Gardens Park each Saturday to separate any counter protesters. Only saw one counter protester, but no coordinate showing so far.
A number of fully loaded tour busses have come by, some riders showing support, others not so much
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