by Tyler | Aug 6, 2020 | California, coronavirus, Covid-19, Crime, Eric Garcetti, Health, Local, Los Angeles, Trending
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti blasted house parties on Wednesday, saying that he would instruct city officials to cut off water and power to properties where “flagrant violations” of social distancing rules have taken place in recent days.
by Tyler | Jul 18, 2020 | 2020 Election, Abolish the police, AOC, Chris Wallace, Crime, Defund the Police, Eric Garcetti, Fact Check, Fox News, Joe Biden, LAPD, Media Bias, Minneapolis, Politics, Trending
Fact check – CLAIM: Joe Biden doesn’t want to defund the police, just redirect police funding to other uses. VERDICT: Mostly false. They mean the same thing.
by Tyler | Jul 1, 2020 | Abolish the police, Black Lives Matter, Crime, Defund the Police, Eric Garcetti, LAPD, Local, Los Angeles, Police, Politics, Trending
The Los Angeles City Council passed a motion Tuesday to replace Los Angeles Police Department officers with unarmed “crisis response” personnel to be assigned to “non-violent calls for service” such as “neighbor disputes.”
by Tyler | Jun 19, 2020 | antifa, Black Lives Matter, Crime, Eric Garcetti, LAPD, Los Angeles, Politics, Trending
Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti is attempting to make peace with members of the Los Angeles Police Department after maligning them as “killers” and retroactively taking away their overtime pay following several days of Black Lives Matter protests and...
by Tyler | May 20, 2020 | California, Economy, Eric Garcetti, Gavin Newsom, Health, homeless, homelessness, Los Angeles, NIMBY, Politics, San Francisco, Trending
Half of the 15,000 hotel rooms leased under Operation Roomkey, California’s program to provide emergency housing to the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic, are empty.
by Tyler | Apr 13, 2020 | coronavirus, Eric Garcetti, Health, homeless, homelessness, Local, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Trending
Gerald Shiroma, a worker at the Union Rescue Mission homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles, died from coronavirus late last week, according to shelter director Rev. Andrew Bales.