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15 Apr, 6 tweets, 3 min read
BREAKING: LAPD in riot gear squaring off a with a group of about 100 BLM protesters in downtown LA in front of LAPD headquarters. There was a vigil for #DaunteWright earlier, and the protesters knocked over LAPD barricades. More LAPD resources responding now. @FOXLA
LAPD attempting to clear the protesters out of the area. @FOXLA
KKK has been spray painted onto the LAPD HQ. @FOXLA
Crowd of protesters is at 1st/Spring. Shouting and chants but no violence of any kind. @FOXLA
LAPD has just declared an unlawful assembly. @FOXLA
Crowd was cleared out. There are protests planned in Hollywood and Pasadena tomorrow, based off of social media fliers that are going around.

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14 Apr
BREAKING: The city of Pico Rivera just approved a vote of no confidence in L.A. County District Attorney #GeorgeGascon's special directives. The cities of Santa Clarita and Beverly Hills previously approved votes of no confidence in DA Gascon. La Mirada is considering one. @FOXLA
Pico Rivera city councilman Andrew Lara, who says he has no confidence in Gascon's policies, said this vote cannot be painted as the doing of "white Republicans" like Santa Clarita or Beverly Hills. He says he is a Democrat, and he has to put policy before party here. @FOXLA
A representative from Gascon's administration spoke live at the city council meeting and said that Gascon's policies are meant to "advance public safety, equity, victim's services, and strengthen police accountability."
@LACoSheriff spoke and slammed Gascon's policies. @FOXLA
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12 Apr
NEW: LAPD Chief Michel Moore, L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva , & other community leaders holding a press conference to call for non-violence in Los Angeles given the ongoing tensions in Minnesota w/ the #DerekChauvin trial & the deadly shooting of #DaunteWright. @FOXLA
LAPD Chief Michel Moore says #DerekChauvin showed callousness and a lack of humanity during the arrest of #GeorgeFloyd and that video of the shooting of #DaunteWright is only making tensions and a lack of trust even worse. @FOXLA
L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says he pledges to protect peaceful protesting, but says if people show up at 10pm at night looking like they’re ready to play “tackle football” with helmets & goggles, they’re looking for trouble.
Says looting & violence won’t be tolerated.
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9 Apr
April 2020, I took these photos of Joe Tahanian, owner of The Wine Cave, a bar in Montrose. We did a story w/ him about how he planned to stay open during lockdowns. The day after it aired, authorities threatened him, & he complied.

He just called me. He lost his business today
Here’s the story we did with him back then. foxla.com/news/local-sma…
UPDATE: @ChefGruel is stepping into help! GoFundMe in thread below!
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7 Apr
NEW: A witness just gave me this video of the crash at the end of the murder suspect pursuit in Pomona. I haven’t been able to talk directly to the big rig driver yet, but I yelled to him and asked if he blocked the truck on purpose and he shook his head “no”. @FOXLA
BREAKING: Wildest moment of my 4 years in LA. @abc7leanne and I just interviewed the female in the pursuit vehicle who police let go. She says the driver is her friend from Bakersfield, says she didn’t know he’s wanted for murder. She was like a celebrity w/ the crowd. @FOXLA Image
Full story, all the crazy video, and this wild interview tonight at 10pm on @FOXLA. I’ll be live here in Pomona.
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31 Mar
BREAKING: Sources in the LA County DA Office's Hardcore Gangs unit tell me they were just informed by upper management during a 4pm meeting that their unit is being downsized. Two weeks ago, I reported that DA Gascon was planning to do this. @FOXLA
foxla.com/news/gascon-pl…
Sources tell me management is saying Gascon wants to "reimagine" the unit and make it more community based. I'm told management hasn't answered them on how big the downsizing will be/when it will happen, but the unit will be renamed because administration doesn't like it. @FOXLA
Sources say management is admitting the rollout of this change will be a "nightmare" because the Hardcore Gangs unit has 700 active cases. I'm told downsizing lists have already been generated and prosecutors in the unit will soon be getting calls re: transfers. @FOXLA
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25 Mar
(1/5) TONIGHT: L.A. DA George Gascon recently touted that he stopped 77 juvenile cases from going to adult court. One is Jalen Yoakum's, a Main Street Mafia Crip who murdered an innocent man at age 17. Now age 20, he has continued to post his gang allegiances from juvie. @FOXLA
(2/5) Yoakum has a lengthy criminal history going back to when he was 12. He also recorded himself practicing drive by shootings by shooting a homeless man in the face with a paintball gun. He was in process of being transferred to adult court, then Gascon took office. @FOXLA
(3/5) This month, Yoakum pleaded guilty to the 2017 shooting murder of Ontario Courtney, an innocent man who was mistaken as a member of the rival Hoovers gang. Courtney’s sister, Aja, calls Gascon’s decision to prosecute Yoakum as a juvenile a “slap in the face”. @FOXLA
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