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"We are supposed to have our constitutional right of the freedom to film, to be a member of the press. I don’t feel like I have my First Amendment right as a member of the press," Georgia Fort said.

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“It’s hard to understand how we have constitutional rights when you can just be arrested for being a member of the press.”

These LA businesses are closing in solidarity with the nationwide anti-ICE strike From bakeries to bars, businesses are denouncing the increase in violent federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota and LA.

These LA businesses are closing in solidarity with the nationwide anti-ICE strike:
From bakeries to bars, businesses are denouncing the increase in violent federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota and LA.

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A former Illinois deputy is sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing Sonya Massey A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black women who dialed 911 asking for help.

BREAKING: A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who had called 911 for help.

LA residents protest new battery storage facility, fearing fire risk and a link to AI data centers The City of Industry has invited commercial and industrial development for decades. But locals said there’s a lack of transparency around the impacts of environmental pollution.

LA residents protest new battery storage facility, fearing fire risk and a link to AI data centers

The City of Industry has invited commercial and industrial development for decades. But locals said there’s a lack of transparency around the impacts of environmental pollution.

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

ICE agents will have a security role at Milan Cortina Olympics U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will have a security role during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Games. Sources at the U.S.

ICE agents will have a ‘security role’ during the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, U.S. embassy sources confirm

Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said that ICE would not be welcome in his city

Small companies score big contracts to search for undocumented immigrants The Trump administration has offered open-ended contracts to 13 private companies for help verifying where suspected undocumented immigrants live and work.

The Trump administration has offered open-ended contracts to 13 private companies for help verifying where suspected undocumented immigrants live and work.

What are some ways people in Los Angeles are planning to directly support or be in solidarity with tomorrow’s strike in Minneapolis against ICE?

LA Metro approves preliminary design for $24 billion subway from the Valley to the Westside Once the transit line is operational, the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project would ferry San Fernando Valley residents to the Westside in 10 minutes

With one vote today, LA elected officials moved the region closer to realizing a 40-year dream of a public transit line operating between the San Fernando Valley and the Westside.
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Europe’s other trade bazooka

If Trump changes his mind on Greenland tariffs again, some European politicians think they've found leverage to keep him in check: boycott the World Cup.

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Federal agents descended on a quiet Willowbrook block shortly after 7 a.m., startling residents in the unincorporated Los Angeles community.

Spotted this anti-ICE art on my ride down the LA River bike path in Elysian Valley

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Israel kills 3 journalists in Gaza, including CBS News contributor The journalists were killed Wednesday in a strike on their car in central Gaza. Israel’s military said it struck “several suspects” who were operating a drone.

The Israeli military struck and killed three journalists Wednesday as they traveled in their car south of Gaza City, rescue officials and reporters said, the latest in a series of attacks Israel has launched despite a ceasefire that began in October.

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

"Protect Our Routes, Get ICE Out": Postal Workers Rally in Minneapolis - Workday Magazine Twin Cities postal workers with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 9 gathered at the post office on Lake Street in South Minneapolis on January 18 to demand U.S. Immigration and...

Rank-and-file letter carriers gathered this weekend at a post office in Minneapolis to demand ICE stop using postal property for raids--and leave Minnesota. The members of National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 9 chanted, "Protect our routes, get ICE out!" By Isabela Escalona.

An NFL player is wearing eye black that says “stop the genocide”

Houston Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair has reportedly been fined $11,593 for wearing eye black that contained the message "stop the genocide”

The report says he was fined for violating NFL uniform and equipment rules

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Death toll in Iran protests over 3,000, rights group says More than 3,000 people have died in Iran's nationwide protests, rights activists said on Saturday, while a "very slight rise" in internet activity was reported in the country after an eight-day blackout.

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ICE and Feds currently raiding Santee Alley DTLA- confirmed by @lapublicpress.bsky.social on IG

Ban on use of 40mm KIPS Plaintiffs request the Court ban LAPD’s use of 40mm KIPS as a crowd control tool, arguing that the Ninth Circuit has held that such munitions “are not intended to disperse an individual; they are intended to ‘incapacitate’ a target.” (Mot. at 15) (citing Nelson v. City of Davis, 685 F.3d 867, 873-74 (9th Cir. 2012); Deorle v. Rutherford, 272 F.3d 1272, 1285 (9th Cir. 2001). The Court’s May 10, 2021 Preliminary Injunction provides restrictions on LAPD’s use of 40mm munitions, including: a restriction on using the 40mm launchers in public

demonstrations except by officers who successfully completed Department training and meet all annual qualification requirements on the weapon; an officer may use 40mm less-lethal munitions only when the officer reasonably believes that a suspect is violently resisting arrest or poses an immediate threat of violence or physical harm; use of 40mm less-lethal munitions should be preceded by a warning, if feasible, consistent with the Use of Force Warning set forth in LAPD Use of Force – Tactics Directive No. 17; they should only be fired at a distance of five feet or greater from another person; and must not be used to target the head, neck, face, eyes, kidneys, chest, groin or spine of a person. (See Preliminary Injunction Order.) Here, Plaintiffs provide evidence that Defendants used 40mm munitions on protestors who did not pose an immediate threat of violence of physical harm, did not provide warnings before using the munitions, and hit protestors in restricted areas of the body. (See Exs. 152-153, 169-173, 176; Luksus Decl. ¶¶ 8-10; Ashby Decl. ¶¶ 1,3,6; Fernandez Decl. ¶¶ 2-6.) Defendants violated the Court’s Preliminary Injunction Order regarding certain restricted uses of the 40mm and therefore, a ban on 40mm launchers and less-lethal munitions is appropriate. The Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ request for a ban on the use of 40mm KIPs as a crowd control tool.

BREAKING: Federal judge bans LAPD from using 40mm foam rounds for crowd control.

Doesn't seem to cover other "less lethal" munitions (ex: 37mm, tear gas), but I suspect 40mm have done most harm.

This is in BLM protest case. Different judge than LA Press Club case.

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"A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at an ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3."

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.

Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

Nearly one person died every week in LA County jail custody last year Deaths jumped 44% from 2024 to 2025 as Proposition 36 brought an older, sicker population into already crowded facilities the county promised to reform. Deaths jumped 44% from 2024 to 2025 as Proposit...

Nearly one person died every week in LA County jail custody last year

Deaths jumped 44% from 2024 to 2025 as Proposition 36 brought an older, sicker population into already crowded facilities the county promised to reform.

ICE violence against women is increasingly visible — and largely untracked The killing of Renee Nicole Good — and the viral video that followed — underscores the forceful tactics long used against marginalized women.

The killing of Renee Nicole Good — and the viral video that followed — underscores the forceful tactics long used against marginalized women.

Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’ The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.

SALISBURY, Md. (WBOC) - A Maryland man is navigating two devastating blows to his family after ICE agents arrested his wife just days before their 15-year-old son’s death from cancer.

The NewsGuild strongly condemns FBI’s raid of Washington Post reporter’s home | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA “The Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Natanson’s property and personal devices,” the Post Guild said.

“Journalists have the right to do their jobs without fear of government interference,” said President Jon Schleuss.

“Today’s FBI raid on a journalist’s home is a direct assault on the 1st Amendment and a threat to every working journalist.

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Metro Transit Workers Rally at Bus Stop Where ICE Abduction Took Place, Demand ICE Not Interfere with Transit Operations - Workday Magazine On the corner of Bloomington and 31st Street in South Minneapolis, workers with Metro Transit and allies held up a sign that read, “Minnesotans were abducted here.” It was the morning of January 14, a...

Metro Transit Workers Rally at Bus Stop Where ICE Abduction Took Place, Demand ICE Not Interfere with Transit Operations

A data center boom is coming to the San Gabriel Valley. Residents had no idea LA County residents are being blindsided by proposals that may drain massive amounts of electricity and water. In Monterey Park, a single facility would use more power than the entire city.

A data center boom is coming to the San Gabriel Valley. Residents had no idea

LA County residents are being blindsided by proposals that may drain massive amounts of electricity and water. In Monterey Park, a single facility would use more power than the entire city.

Renee Good came to Minneapolis seeking a safe place. Less than a year later, she was killed. After years as a military wife, Good was starting over when an encounter with ICE agents cut her new life short.

What brought Good to this city requires untangling a web of cross-country moves and name changes since growing up in a Christian household in Colorado Springs and twice becoming a military wife. Nearly two decades later, she was in love with Rebecca Good and seeking refuge in Minneapolis.