Late last month, The New York Times published an investigation that detailed harrowing allegations of sexual abuse by Chavez, including the grooming and assault of minors. Chavez's longtime colleague Dolores Huerta alleged that he had raped her.
A fire damaged one of Oakland's most beloved historic landmarks, raising concerns about the preservation of the city's cultural heritage and the impact on the community.
Afroman spends the five-minute clip detailing the entire case in deliberate, utterly absurd detail. It's very much a diss track... Afroman has targets a plenty, including likening Judge Roy E. Gabbert to Droopy.
State of play: The appearance of sometimes militant armed groups could heighten tension following the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by federal agents. These groups present themselves as immigrant-rights defenders, not paramilitary forces - but the revived names carry historic weight. Catch up quick: ICE enforcement activity has increased in several cities, prompting large protests and neighborhood-level response efforts.
A man was sentenced four years in federal prison Friday after he admitted to lighting a Molotov cocktail and throwing it at Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies during a protest last year against immigration raids. Emiliano Garduño Gálvez, 23, pleaded guilty in October to one count each of possessing an unregistered destructive device and obstructing law enforcement during a civil disorder.
As the Martin Luther King Jr. Kingdom Day Parade wound to an end in Leimert Park, activist Jason Reedy said he tried to "bird-dog" LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell over a recent increase in police shootings. One of the police department's most outspoken critics, Reedy, often confronts LAPD and city officials face to face in public forums. After jawing with members of McDonnell's security detail, Reedy got into a heated exchange with Alan Hamilton, a deputy chief who runs the detective bureau.
Footage from the meeting captured protesters flipping the middle finger at cameras and putting their hands up in Paige's face to interrupt her reporting. You are afraid of me, aren't you? protester Jason Reedy seethed at Paige, according to her story. Paige wrote that her and the Posts photographer left the meeting after it was shut down by the protesters; she said they did not leave because they were intimidated into silence, but because the situation had become unsafe and our job was to report.
Yet while "Abolish ICE" serves as a unifying chant in the streets, Democrats are once again seeking to temper and co-opt people's demands into a narrow version of reform. The demands outlined by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could not be more toothless: requiring ICE agents to unmask, wear body cameras, and to follow a code of conduct modeled on other law enforcement agencies.
Black families who have lost loved ones to police violence said the killings in Minnesota have brought back painful memories of their own fights for justice as law enforcement agencies spun up narratives to suggest officers had no other choice but to kill their relatives. And these law enforcement agencies often make no effort to publicly correct misstatements or falsehoods that might have impact on a fair justice process, experts said.
Were it not for a last-minute reversal by President Trump, brokered in secret by a couple of billionaires and SF's mayor, San Francisco and Oakland could have easily descended into the same violent chaos, provoked by an ICE invasion, that we're seeing in Minneapolis. The Trump administration has, since Trump took office this second shameful time, been working their way down a list of enemy states and cities where federal agents have been sent in on a draconian mission
I was out of the country at the time, but shortly after I returned, I thought about Clem when Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti was shot dead by ICE agents at a protest in Minnesota. It wasn't long before the Trump administration's top officials took turns blaming the victim, lying about the circumstances and calling Pretti an assassin. Pretti's distraught parents responded with this: "The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting."
