New: CHP isn’t supposed to aim less-lethal munitions at protesters’ heads and fire into crowds. It did at UCLA.

We found at least 25 instances in which officers appeared to aim their weapons at the eye-level of protesters or fired them into crowds.

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Law enforcement officers across the state are trained that these types of munitions “shall not be aimed at the head, neck or any other vital organs,” according to guidelines from California Commission on Peace of Officers and Standards Training.

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At UCLA as police move in to dispurse protestors and dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment.

For @CalMatters Inside the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA as protestors stand their ground, defying police order to disburse.

Los Angeles-

Happening now at UCLA: counter protestors are clashing with pro-Palestinian demonstrators, attempting to tear down the Gaza encampment. Counter protestors are in a full on brawl with pro-Palestinian demonstrators at UClA.

Some counter protestors have been using sticks to try strike the hands of demonstrators holding the fence.

Both sides are using pepper spray in exchanges.

No police in sight.

Protestors calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza have blocked the 110 southbound freeway in Los Angeles About 50 protestors are staging an act of civil disobedience, shutting down the 110 freeway during rush hour in Los Angeles.

Half a dozen Highway patrol officers are at the scene now.

The story of the search and rescue of the Seven Oaks community in the mountains of the San Bernardino National Forest, cut off from the world during Tropical Storm Hilary.

For @nytimes with @alishajucevic (1/30) It starts with Greg Fink, whose lived in Seven Oaks for over 40 years.

Greg & his wife fled during the storm, literally running to saftey.

Now he’s back and on a mission:

First: Get home to feed his cats, who haven’t eaten in 2 days.

Next: Help the people stranded. (2/30)

At the Chino Valley School Board meeting the board is voting on a policy that would out trans students.

The policy would require teachers to notify parents within 72 hours if a student wishes to be identified by a pronoun other than the one “listed on their birth certificate” California Attorney General Bonta issued a statement today expressing “serious concern” over the proposed Parental Notification policy that Chino Valley Board is considering.

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Outside the Glendale school board meeting in Los Angeles where demonstrators have gathered (again) to protest LGBTQ education in school.

Glendale police are out in riot gear, they have closed off streets around the school board and set up barricades to separate crowds. Anti-LGBTQ Protestors behind police barricades chant “fuck antifa”

Some protestors are wearing matching t-shirts that read “leave our kids alone”

Outside the Glendale school board meeting in Los Angeles

Police declare an unlawful assembly outside the Glendale unified school board meeting in Los Angeles.

Hundreds of protestors gathered to protest LGBTQ education in schools. A large brawl ensued with counter protestors. At least one arrest made A physical brawl breaks out between anti-LGBTQ protestors and LGBTQ supporters outside the Glendale unified school board meeting in Los Angeles.

Day 229: Missile attacks in Kyiv

For @Telegraph 🧵 This was taken 22min after the first explosion in Kyiv at an intersection near a park and a university.

A glimpse inside Izyum, Ukraine gives a sense of how complete and rapid Russia’s defeat was in Kharkiv, with signs of a panicked retreat from the city. 🧵

With @RolandOliphant
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… In the forest around Izyum there’s abandoned Russian trenches and ammunition.

There’s MLRS rockets and husks of cluster bombs.

There’s signs of Ukrainian strikes, like on this self-propelled artillery, turning the forest into a graveyard of Russian armor.

Inside the recently liberated city of Balakliya, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine 🧵

For @Telegraph Residents of Balakliya line up to receive humanitarian aid.

Day 94: Kurakhove, Donetsk.
20km from the front

“I was living in Donetsk when Russia ‘liberated’ me for the first time. I moved to a new home in Kostyantynivka, and they liberated me again.” Says Serhii Shestun, recovering in a hospital after being wounded by Russian shelling 7km from the front near Pisky, Donetsk

Artillery is the main instrument of war in the #donbas, both sides talk to each other with outgoing and incoming rounds

At the moment Russian artillery is dominating the conversation, Ukraine doesn’t have the volume of ammunition to match

Day 93: smoke rises in the direction of Lyman, Donetsk, a village captured by Russians.

Ukrainian forces are being outgunned by Russian artillery, unable to match the volume of Russian shelling

Rounds are landing every few minutes in Donbas, with Ukranian forces ceding ground The town of #Lyman in #Donetsk #ukraine has fallen into Russian hands, Ukranian officials confirm.

Russia is gaining ground in #donbas

Kharkiv, Ukraine day 83 Saltivka neighborhood

Kharkiv, Ukraine day 83

A story about life under Russian occupation in rural Chernihiv, Ukraine:

Nickolay Kulichenko remembers Russian soldiers driving him and his two brother to a field where soldiers were digging a ditch. For 3 days Russian forces interrogated him and his brothers about a column of armor that was destroyed.

They wanted to know which villagers were working as saboteurs.

Kulichenko watched his brothers take rifle butts to the face for answering “I don’t know”

Chernihiv, Ukraine

Kharkiv, Ukraine day 82:

Russian forces have shelled this city incessantly, unable to take the city at first, they tried to pound it into submission.

This week Ukranian forces pushed Russians forces out of Kharkiv, outside of artillery range, winning the battle for this city. Kharkiv, Ukraine:

Russians forces shelled this shopping center to pieces.

82 days ago this bazaar market was alive with small merchants offering clothing, electronics, and jewelry.

The life savings and ambitions of these small businesses, now in ruins.

Orikhiv, Zaporizhia

Russian forces are incessantly shelling this Ukranian town. It’s just a handful of kilometers from the front.

3 people killed in the last 10 days.

Most civilians have evacuated.

The streets are mostly quiet, punctuated with the sounds of artillery. Russian forces have pocketed this entire town with shrapnel. 5km from the front.

Orikhiv, Zaporizhia, Ukraine

In Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine:

civilians evacuated from Mariupol and villages near the frontlines gather to at a humanitarian aid center to receive medical aid, food, and clothing. The Red Cross and the U.N. have evacuated hundreds of civilians from Mariupol.

But some civilians are arriving in Zaporizhzhia in convoys arranged by Ukranian civilians.

Some brave volunteers have been driving to frontline cities delivering aid and driving out evacuees.

Day 40 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
The massacre of civilians in #Bucha Russian forces retreated the Kyiv suburb of #Bucha leaving behind evidence of the horrors that occurred here.

All across town there are Ukrainian civilians lying in the street and in empty buildings.

Signs of executions and looting.

This is a mass grave at a church in Bucha

A day after Russia pledged to “scale back” operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv:

Ukrainian civilians, former students and office workers, loaded vehicles with medicines, food, and water to deliver the besieged residents of #Chernihiv

@PDocumentarians and I followed the convoy Some of the Ukrainian volunteers just met each other in person today, organizing all this in Telegram group chats.

To avoid Russian positions they travel through backroads, learning what’s safe through an informal network of friends & family in recently reclaimed villages

Idaho Lieutenant governor Janice McGeachin is building a coalition that includes white nationalists and members of far-right militias, in what she tells supporters is ‘the fight of our lives’ to take over the GOP

theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m… Last month at the America First Political Action Conference, a white nationalist conference, McGeachin praised attendees:

“Keep up the good work fighting for our country,” she said, in her opening remarks at a racist gathering.