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The prestigious Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, announced last week in a letter sent to the community that it is adopting several “anti-racism” initiatives that have been designed to combat “systemic racism.”

Rioters “peacefully marched” on Saturday evening in Oakland, California, before attacking police, damaging federal buildings, and vandalizing private property, according to media reports.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) declared a tactical alert on Saturday evening, mobilizing officers in response to attacks on federal buildings downtown by demonstrators who had marched in solidarity with protests in Portland.

Democratic mayors like Eric Garcetti in Los Angeles have unleashed pandemic hell on their populations through their own incompetence —all while scapegoating President Trump for the problems they themselves caused.

The Los Angeles teachers’ union suggests schools could free up funds needed to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic if police are defunded.

Los Angeles schools will not reopen for in-person learning this fall, the Los Angeles Unified School District announced on Monday, citing “science” as its guide in the decision.

Roughly one hundred members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) protested Saturday in front of their headquarters in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, urging residents and elected leaders to “defend the police.”

The Los Angeles Police Department is reportedly investigating the unusual absence of 300 officers who called in sick over the Fourth of July weekend in what is a suspected case of “blue flu” — an informal protest by the rank-and-file.

Saturday evening, a KCAL helicopter caught people in Los Angeles defying local ordinances with their Independence Day celebrations.

Black Lives Matter activists in Los Angeles believe that they live in a city that is filled with “liberal white supremacists.”

Shootings and murder are surging in Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York City, and Philadelphia, all of which are Democrat-controlled cities.

Los Angeles School Police Chief Todd Chamberlain resigned Wednesday after the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) voted the night before to cut his department’s budget by $25 million, or 35% of the total.

LOS ANGELES, California — Mayor Eric Garcetti told a press briefing on Wednesday afternoon that the recent Black Lives Matter protests in the Los Angeles area were, in fact, partly responsible for a recent spike in coronavirus cases.

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the Israeli consulate Wednesday to demonstrate against the possible extension of Israeli sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria.

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.”

Los Angeles County may run out of hospital beds in the next two to three weeks because of a new surge in coronavirus infections dating to the period in which Black Lives Matter protests broke out.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered all bars in Los Angeles County to close, due to a rapid increase in the number of coronavirus cases there in the last several days.

Los Angeles City Council committee officials are considering enforcement tactics to penalize individuals who are not following both the state and local mask directive, with one city councilman suggesting that they “start to consider it reckless endangerment of others to not wear a mask.”

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva revealed Wednesday his plans to increase the issuance of concealed carry permits by 400 percent. 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar on Tuesday morning for corruption, alleging that he had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and treated his office like a “criminal enterprise.”

Mayor Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California, told a meeting of Democratic mayors on Tuesday morning that it was necessary not just to “defund the police,” but to “replace the police.”

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 riots.

The Los Angeles City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee unanimously voted to submit proposed police funding cuts to the City Council on Tuesday.

That ’70s Show star Danny Masterson has been charged with raping three women  in separate incidents between 2001 and 2003, according to a complaint issued Wednesday by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

A protest in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday demanded that the Los Angeles School Police Department, which protects public schools from gang violence and mass shootings, be abolished.

Thousands of people crowded the streets of New York and Los Angeles on Sunday to join protests on behalf of black transgender people, in a nationwide set of demonstrations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

Los Angeles is adding insult to injury to its treatment of police officers by retroactively defunding LAPD overtime following days of #BlackLivesMatter protests and riots.

An illegal alien wanted for rape in El Salvador has been deported for the third time out of the United States after repeatedly entering the country through the U.S.-Mexico border.

Mayor Eric Garcetti was asked to define “systemic racism” on Wednesday evening, and answered that it is “racism that is built into systems.”

Mayor Eric Garcetti claimed Wednesday evening that he had worn a mask when he took a knee during Black Lives Matter protests last week — despite video and photographic evidence that he had not.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti asked Black Lives Matter protesters on Wednesday to self-quarantine for 14 days and to have themselves tested for possible exposure to coronavirus during the demonstrations of the last two weeks.

An investigative reporter found a “private LAPD protection detail” outside the home of Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez after she introduced a motion to cut the department’s budget by $150 million.

Democrat Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez advocated for drastic cuts to the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) budget — all while having a private LAPD police unit stationed outside her home since April.

The United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), representing teachers and support staff in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), called Monday for the elimination of the 400-member police force protecting schools in the district.

Professors at UCLA published a letter this week in response to the death of George Floyd that called on university officials to end its relationship with the Los Angeles Police Department. According to the professors, the university must end its “collaboration” with the LAPD and move ” towards the divestment of UCLA from LAPD and other forms of policing.”

Los Angeles authorities will not pursue criminal charges or fines against the hundreds of “peaceful protesters” who were arrested and detained for breaking curfew last week, after Black Lives Matter and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the city.