Lee Merritt, one of the lawyers representing the family of George Floyd, told Breitbart News on Sunday that the arrest of the four police officers involved in Floyd’s death only came about as a result of “chaos” nationwide.
“Black Panther” star Michael B. Jordan told a crowd on Saturday at a protest in Los Angeles, California, that Hollywood must “commit to black hiring” in the wake of the death of George Floyd, and suggested that Hollywood is “policing” black “storytelling.”
Singer-songwriter Meredith Brooks is calling out Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for the city’s permissive attitude toward crime, saying that it has forced her friends to buy guns to protect themselves and has caused residents to flee the city.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that the response to crimes in Los Angeles over the past week was “a little slow” and stated that the “blue wall of silence” needs to break and the officers
LOS ANGELES — Democrats have begun embracing calls to “defund” or even “abolish” police departments. But a new YouGov poll shows that only 16% of Americans approve of that — including just 33% of black Americans.
By making “white privilege” the problem, white liberals like Eric Garcetti have come up with a brilliant way of staying on top.
Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent for left-wing “explainer” website Vox.com, apologized Thursday for criticizing calls by Democrats and Black Lives Matter activists to “abolish the police.”
LOS ANGELES, California — Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday evening that the City of Los Angeles would cut up to $150 million from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and “reinvest” the funds in the local black community.
“Peaceful protest” is only truly peaceful when it recognizes that others in the community have equal rights — not when it shuts down a city.
More Hollywood celebrities are hitting the streets in a show of support for the Black Lives Matter protests that continue to sweep through major cities across the country. The stars appeared to participate in peaceful marches even as some protests in cities including New York and Los Angeles devolved into riots and looting.
Garcetti pledged to provide the “mental health care that we need to deal with what that feels like … to be a young black man … every moment they inhabit a body.”
“Be a good communist and enforce the law,” said Joel Pollak, referring Democrat officials’s refusal to maintain law and order amid unrest.
A heavily armed man wearing a National Guard uniform was arrested early Tuesday morning on assault weapon charges across the street from the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) headquarters.
Looters who stole phones and laptops from the Apple Store in The Grove shopping mall in Los Angeles, California, during riots will not be able to use the products they stole due to special safeguards installed by Apple that render them useless.
Police confronted a shopkeeper, his son, and several community members as they attempted to protect a local store from looters on Monday evening in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.
On Monday, an LAPD officer took a knee with protesters in West Hollywood and the protesters peacefully respected the curfew. The officer told the crowd, “If I take a knee with you guys, will you give me your verbal acknowledgment
Rioters across the United States have waved Mexican flags in various American cities to protest the death of George Floyd allegedly at the hands of a Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer.
Retail shops and storefront offices hurried Monday afternoon to board up their windows and doors, ahead of possible violence and looting in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and surrounding areas.
A suspected looter taken into custody by the Los Angeles Police Department granted an on-camera interview with a local Fox station on Sunday, telling a reporter that he did it for the money.
Former Gov. Chris Christie said an “overwhelming presence” of law enforcement is needed to end ongoing unrest and lawlessness generated by agitators, offering his comments on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.
Los Angeles County declared a 6 p.m. curfew Sunday following a second day of looting, vandalism, and arson, including reports that rioters have broken into Santa Monica’s City Hall.
Protesters gathering in Washington, DC, May 31, 2020, pinned down a rioter who was damaging property and handed him over to police, yelling, “Take his ass.”
Local reporters on the scene noted many peaceful protests in Santa Monica, California on Sunday afternoon but that a separate contingent of looters organized.
An armed civilian carrying a firearm stood with an unarmed female protester on Sunday at the door of the REI store in Santa Monica, California, turning away a group of would-be looters who tried to smash into the store during a protest.
Rioters ostensibly participating in Black Lives Matter protests against the killing last week of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis tore through a heavily Jewish neighborhood of Los Angeles Saturday night, ransacking stores and vandalizing a synagogue.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Los Angeles late Saturday night, and Mayor Eric Garcetti imposed a citywide curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. as riots raged through West L.A. and elsewhere.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued a curfew on Saturday night in the wake of violent protests over the death of George Floyd.
Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti called on the state’s National Guard for help on Saturday evening in response to protests in the city — which have devolved into riots — over the death of George Floyd.
Los Angeles saw riots spread to the Fairfax District and Beverly Hills on Saturday in what is shaping up to be another tumultuous night in the nation’s second largest city.
During a press conference on Saturday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) urged people to allow firefighters to put fires out and allow the police to restore peace and announced that the city would institute a curfew on downtown LA
LAPD squad cars were damaged and, in some cases, destroyed Saturday as crowds converged on Los Angeles’ streets for a fourth day of protests over the death of George Floyd.
Los Angeles police withheld retaliatory fire after a protester shot rounds at law enforcement officials during the riots that swept through downtown L.A. late Friday and into Saturday morning, sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.
Friday, on the third night of protesting in downtown Los Angeles over George Floyd’s death, protesters took over the 110 freeway in downtown.
University of Southern California Law School Professor Jody Armour recently defended a highway protest by Black Lives Matter activists in Los Angeles. On Wednesday, hundreds of protesters blocked traffic on the 101 freeway to bring attention to the death of George Floyd. According to Armour, the protest shows the “festering wounds that haven’t actually healed over time here in LA.”
Protesters on Wednesday shut down traffic on the 101 Freeway near Union Station as demonstrators took to downtown Los Angeles over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, according to local reports.
Deaths have soared among the homeless population in San Francisco during the coronavirus, but not due to the virus directly.
The City of San Francisco opened its first officially-sanctioned homeless camp this week, located outside City Hall.
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.
Inmates in Los Angeles County, California, are generally not being tested for the Chinese coronavirus before being released from jail, a county official reveals.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An explosion in downtown Los Angeles injured 10 firefighters Saturday, and more than 200 others rushed to the scene as the flames spread to several buildings.
