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(MARCH 9, 2017) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion to explore reforming its current cash bail system.
“Money bail contributes to overcrowding in our jails, has a disproportionate impact on ethnic minority communities, and, yet, has not been shown to improve criminal justice outcomes,” wrote Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who co-sponsored Wednesday’s proposal along with Sup. Hilda Solis, a former Obama cabinet member.
Their recommendation relied on research and reports from three agenda-driven nonprofits – all connected to a nationwide pretrial justice campaign funded by institutions like George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF).
Kuehl and Solis cited documentation from the Justice Policy Institute, Pretrial Justice Institute and Vera Institute of Justice, but failed to mention the trio has all received funding from the Hungarian-born Soros, who recently invested $27 million electing “reform-minded” local prosecutors throughout the United States.
Justice Policy Institute (JPI):
For several years, Soros’ OSF has provided fellowships and grants toward JPI projects such as organizing inmates and former prisoners “to participate in a national movement to advocate for prisoner's rights and criminal justice policy reform.”
Marc Schindler, JPI’s Executive Director, was a recipient of OSF’s “New Executives Fund,” given to “leaders in fields that are central to Open Society's mission.”
Meanwhile, JPI’s Board Chair is a former Soros Justice Fellow.
Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI):
The Pretrial Justice Institute is currently coalescing with the Justice Policy Institute and Open Society Policy Center to reform Maryland’s bail system. PJI receives funding from Soros’ organization to administer studies which are then used to influence politicians and public policy.
Tim Murray, PJI’s Executive Director, has participated in Soros-sponsored bail reform forums.
VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE:
Lastly, Kuehl and Solis referenced a 6-year-old report from the Vera Institute of Justice. The study was done in 2011 - the same year Christopher Stone, Vera’s former director, was handpicked to lead Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
Soros chose Stone after concluding OSF’s international grantmaking flowchart had become too complex.
“It has become too complicated,” Soros told the New York Times in 2011. “It needs to be streamlined to become more unified.”
(Christopher Stone, former director of Vera Institute of Justice, is now president of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. photo: OSF website)
Six years later, Stone is still president of the Open Society Foundations, apparently satisfying Soros’ vision of a consolidated attack on America’s institutions.
Officials will review LA County’s bail structure and report back to the Board of Supervisors in 120 days, along with recommendations to ensure a fairer pretrial release system.
LA COUNCILMAN GIVES DISTRICT MONEY TO CHIRLA, CARECEN & BAJI
(Los Angeles Councilman Curren D. Price Jr. gave more than $1 million of District 9′s discretionary funds to community organizing groups. Photo: Curren Price)
(MARCH 1, 2017) A Los Angeles councilman up for re-election next week has given more than $1 million of district money to community organizing groups affiliated with Black Lives Matter. The grants will provide legal help to people throughout the city facing deportation.
Los Angeles Daily News, February 24, 2017:
Councilman Curren Price, who represents a South Los Angeles district with a high Latino immigrant population, said he will be taking the money out of his district’s discretionary funds account, which are normally put towards needs that arise around the neighborhood, such as for tree-trimming, sidewalk repair and buying trash cans.
“What is the point of having those things if people are afraid to get on the streets or get outside?” Price said.
Apparently, the needs of unlawfully present immigrants take precedence over Americans in L.A.’s 9th District.
Price can legally use the discretionary money for any public purpose he sees fit – a policy a fellow councilmember once equated to having “secret slush funds.”
Coincidentally, the Los Angeles Times endorsed Price’s opponent, Jorge Nuño, the son of an immigrant, just days before the councilman announced his plans to hand out the grants. The primary election is next Tuesday, March 7th.
The money was to be distributed immediately between three nonprofits that coalesce with each other and Black Lives Matter – including two Soros-sized gifts targeting his district’s dominant Latino demographic.
Los Angeles Daily News, February 24, 2017:
The bulk of the grant money will be split between the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, or CHIRLA, and the Central American Resource Center, also known as CARECEN, with each receiving $500,000.
A third group, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), will get $25,000.
BAJI, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, has close ties to Los Angeles and Black Lives Matter-LA.
Rev. Kelvin Sauls, a pastor at the Holman Methodist Church in South LA, is BAJI’s co-founder and Board Chair. Sauls has publicly distanced himself from activist groups like BLM-LA, but both he and his BAJI nonprofit have a closer relationship to the movement than the reverend would like you to know.
(BAJI’s Board Chair, Rev. Kelvin Sauls, and National Organizer Tia Oso attended CHIRLA’s Spring Gala in 2015)
BAJI’s Executive Director is Opal Tometi, one of the three co-founders of Black Lives Matter.
Tia Oso, BAJI’s National Organizer, shared the stage with BLM-LA activists last year at the May Day immigration rally. In the video below, Oso is introduced by a CHIRLA organizer, fires up the crowd, then kicked off the march through downtown.
BLM-LA, CARECEN and CHIRLA were part of the Los Angeles May Day Coalition.
(BAJI’s Tia Oso shares the stage with Black Lives Matter-LA at the 2016 May Day immigration rally and march)
Two months later, when BLM-LA launched an eventual 54-day encampment outside City Hall, Oso was there. I met her on the second night.
I drove by to say ‘hi’ to BLM-LA leader Melina Abdullah, but unfortunately, she had left for the evening. Chatting with the #OccupyLACityHall crew from my car, it dawned on me that I was talking to Oso! I recognized her as that unforgettable character from Netroots who ambushed Martin O’Malley.
(BAJI’s Tia Oso took center stage at Netroots Nation 2015)
Not wanting my pit stop to end in vain, on impulse, I donated a few gallons of Crystal Geyser (sitting on the floor of my backseat) to the cause. I was happy to contribute, considering they were giving Mayor Eric Garcetti such a hard time. I wish I had more on hand to give. Plus, I wanted to win brownie points from Abdullah. I actually handed the jugs of water to Oso without even unbuckling my seatbelt. Oso thanked me and promised to inform Abdullah of my kind deed. (To make the situation even more bizarre, I was on my way home from what would become Donald Trump’s West Coast campaign headquarters, but that’s another story for another day).
(FEBRUARY 28, 2017) Steve Owen. Jose “Gil” Vega. Lesley Zerebny. Keith Boyer.
Four law enforcement officers protecting Southern California – all murdered by convicted felons that benefited from the leniency of Assembly Bill 109.
“The system is now set up so it is very difficult to get sent back to (state) prison for anything,“ said Eric Leonard, an investigative reporter with KFI radio in Los Angeles.
In a sane world, felons violating parole would be sent back to Pelican Bay, San Quentin, or one of the other 33 state prisons constructed to hold such overt threats to society.
But in Jerry Brown’s California, politicians have created a climate where outlaws game the system, official data is meaningless, and cops end up dead.
(Jerry Brown at a 2010 rally in Oakland, CA. Photo: Steve Rhodes/creative commons)
AB109 is a way for Governor Brown to fudge numbers.
The State Legislature passed the law in 2011 without any Republican votes.
Democrats in Sacramento call it “realignment,” but in reality, AB 109 is a shell game that lets Brown dump state inmates into the county system. That way, the governor gets to tell people he’s reducing the state’s prison population.
“He’s playing Russian roulette with the public,” Tuolumne County Sheriff Jim Mele foreshadowed soon after AB 109 took effect.
Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2017:
“We’re putting people back on the street that aren’t ready to be back on the street,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said. He said the county jail system he runs, the largest in the nation, has become a “default state prison.”
Brown’s realignment racket might be a good way for him to manipulate statistics, but law enforcement agrees it’s bad for public safety.
For years, police organizations warned that the bill would result in high-risk offenders roaming free - just like the three gangbangers who killed four California cops in the past five months.
Trenton Trevon Lovell, 27, shot Los Angeles County sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Owen in the face, then stood over his body and unloaded four more rounds – described as an “execution-style” death by the DA’s office.
A gang member with a long rap sheet, Lovell racked up 11 arrests and spent two stints in the state pen for felony convictions.
Associated Press, October 14, 2016:
Lovell has been on parole since 2014, when he was freed from prison after serving roughly five years of a six-year sentence for robbing a university community safety officer at gunpoint.
Prior to realignment (AB 109), Lovell could have gone back to (state) prison as a parole violator. (In 2015) he pleaded no contest to driving under the influence and a county judge sentenced him to 13 days in jail and three years’ probation.
Since the passage of AB109, parole violators are no longer returned to state prison.
“It curtailed the power of parole agents (paid by the state) to monitor and punish parolees,” wrote Eric Siddall, Vice President of the Association of Los Angeles District Attorneys.
That means ex-convicts like Lovell can now receive lighter supervision, like probation, for violating parole rules.
“Guess who pays for probation? The county. Guess who has next to no expertise in dealing with harden criminals? Probation,” Siddall continued.
Palm Springs Police Officers Jose “Gil” Vega and Lesley Zerebny were ambushed and killed by John Hernandez Felix, 26, during a 12-hour standoff last fall.
Felix, who has been described by local media as “a known member of the Varrio Las Palmas gang,” allegedly expressed a desire to kill police before firing armor-piercing bullets at the officers with an AR-15.
Desert Sun, October 14, 2016:
In September 2009, police say Felix and another man attempted to kill a member of a rival gang in a drive-by shooting.
Felix was charged with attempted murder but pleaded down to assault with a firearm, ultimately serving 18 months of a four-year prison term.
But before being discharged from parole in May 2015, Felix was placed on probation by the county, twice, and pled guilty to another infraction.
The Press-Enterprise, October 9, 2016:
(Felix) got in trouble again in December 2012 when he was accused of possession of an opium pipe. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 76 days in jail, fined $570 and required to not use illegal drugs among the terms of his probation, which expired this August.
And in 2014 he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, the court records show. He was sentenced to 35 days in custody and 34 days in a work-release program, and was ordered to pay a fine of $1,730 and complete a DUI first-offender program, but court records say he failed to appear for the work-release and DUI programs. He remains on probation in that case.
The California Justice Legal Foundation, whose Board of Trustees includes former Gov. Pete Wilson, notes that Felix “would have been eligible for more time in prison or jail” before AB 109.
Michael Christopher Mejia, 26, is a member of the Winter Gardens street gang and he’s got tattoos on his face to prove it.
Thanks to AB 109, the two-time felon was never on parole after leaving state prison last April.
Orange County Register, February 22, 2017:
(Mejia) was on county probation under Assembly Bill 109 when he allegedly shot and killed (Whittier PD Officer) Boyer…and had been arrested multiple times in recent months for violating his probation.
If Mejia had been returned to state prison for violating parole rather getting slapped on the wrist for breaching probation, he might not have been in a position to kill Officer Boyer on February 20.
“It is irresponsible to ignore the fact that the state has, over the last decade, wiped its hands of its public safety obligations and shifted the burden of monitoring harden criminals to probation - an organization not equipped to deal with the Mejia’s of the world,” Siddall wrote.
In a statement to KCAL news, Boyer’s cousin called out Gov. Brown.
Boyer’s family invited Brown to accompany them to the funeral later this week to witness the ramifications of his prison reform policies.
Memorial Services will take place on Friday, March 3rd, at 10:00 AM at the Calvary Chapel in Downey. There will also be a public viewing on Thursday, March 2nd, from 6:30pm-9pm at Whittier Area Community Church.
(FEBRUARY 8, 2017) Ever since her appointment last summer, Cynthia McClain-Hill has been used like a screwdriver to disassemble any sense of harmony within the LAPD Commission.
“(Commissioner McClain-Hill) is really black. She’s connected to us,” Black Lives Matter-LA leader Melina Abdullah said during a September meeting that turned into a melee. “They don’t want her.”
Abdullah was referring to other police commissioners on the five-member board, including Commission President Matt Johnson, whom she often insults with monikers like “House Negro”.
“They want black people that think they’re white,” Abdullah continued. “They want black faces on white supremacy.”
McClain-Hill isn’t a neophyte anymore, but BLMLA still uses her to troll Commissioner Johnson - like a manipulative child pitting mom against dad.
“I like Cynthia McClain-Hill, but in a lot of ways she does function as the Negro whisperer,” said BLMLA activist Trevor Gerard.
“She sort of tries to placate us.”
Throughout McClain-Hill’s six-month tenure, activists have continued to exploit that obvious vulnerability.
Last week it was revealed that McClain-Hill has been subpoenaed to testify against her fellow police commissioner in a case involving Gerard (a.k.a. Trevor Ferguson). Johnson filed a temporary restraining order against the BLMLA activist in December.
LA Weekly, February 2, 2017:
In the complaint, Johnson accuses Gerard of stalking him at his home in Sherman Oaks and at the entertainment law firm where he works in Century City. Johnson states in the complaint that he feared for his life and the safety of his family.
According to Nana Gyamfi, the attorney representing Gerard in court, McClain-Hill will testify about another allegation made in the complaint: that Gerard mouthed violent threats to Johnson from the audience at board meetings and made threatening statements, including “a gratuitous reference” to Johnson’s children.
Gyamfi told L.A. Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson at the (January 31, 2017) hearing that McClain-Hill "will testify that Mr. Ferguson has not mouthed threats, that she has not seen Mr. Ferguson mouth threats to Mr. Johnson or make any threats verbally or audibly.”
Last year, activists encouraged a rift between McClain-Hill and Commissioner Steve Soboroff.
After McClain-Hill stepped on Soboroff’s toes during consecutive September meetings, he finally blew his top.
(Activists affiliated with Black Lives Matter-LA created tension between Commissioners Cynthia McClain-Hill and Steve Soboroff during an LAPD Commission meeting on September 20, 2016. McClain-Hill can be seen in the video laughing along with the activists taunting Soboroff)
Pandemonium ensued, and Soboroff was accused of flipping off activists as he vacated the meeting.
A week later, Soboroff swallowed his pride by apologizing to both BLMLA and McClain-Hill before morphing into a new role of ‘whipped puppy’.
“I want to thank Commissioner Soboroff for doing what is difficult, and that is saying in public that he made a mistake in losing his temper,” McClain-Hill said. “Apologies aren’t easy. Grace demands that when they are sincerely given, that we try to accept them.”
The union representing rank-and-file LAPD tried to raise a red flag about McClain-Hill early on, but like usual, the cops were ignored by Mayor Eric Garcetti.
“She’s gotta go,” said Craig Lally, President of the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL), after firing off a letter to the mayor condemning his appointee.
“Ms. McClain-Hill has publicly aligned herself with disruptive activists, and encouraged their boorish and profane behavior, along with their bullying tactics at Police Commission meetings.”
“Commissioner Matt Johnson had to adjourn the October 4 public meeting of the Police Commission due to the highly disruptive behavior of the professional agitators who show up each Tuesday. Rather than joining her fellow Commissioners after the public adjournment, Ms. McClain-Hill stayed with the group responsible for shutting down the public meeting and encouraged their anti-democratic behavior.”
A video posted by PM Beers (@pmbeers) on Oct 4, 2016 at 12:42pm PDT
(Commissioner McClain-Hill spoke to activists affiliated with Black Lives Matter after their disruptions shut down an LAPD Commission meeting on October 4, 2016)
McClain-Hill told activists affiliated with BLMLA that “it’s not your fault the meeting was shut down” (see video above) after their repeated disruptions caused the early adjournment.
It was an attempt to calm the crowd, which was riled up after the mother of a man shot dead by LAPD threatened to kill police officers during public comment.
Commissioner Johnson remains the only obstacle preventing BLMLA and its allies from completely taking over the weekly meetings, which is why he is being targeted.
(LAPD Commission President Matt Johnson filed a temporary restraining order against BLMLA activist Trevor Gerard in December)
Anti-police activists taunt him almost every week, harass him at his law firm, and intimidate his family outside their home.
Now BLMLA will use Johnson’s own colleague, Commissioner McClain-Hill, in an attempt to discredit him in LA Superior Court.
(FEBRUARY 2, 2017) Last weekend, LAPD Commissioner Cynthia McClain-Hill publicly thanked the leader of Black Lives Matter-LA, a filmmaker and a member of the Crips street gang for ‘disrupting, demanding, and moving us forward’.
McClain-Hill expressed her gratitude during a panel discussion for the Oscar-nominated documentary “13th″, which explores America’s history of racism and the criminal justice system. Other panelists included the filmmaker, Ava DuVernay, BLMLA organizer Melina Abdullah and Nipsey Hussle, a rapper and member of the Rollin’ 60s Crip set.
Although he’s not listed on the official flyer, the common denominator in this equation is LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas.
(LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas takes a selfie with SEIU members)
MRT appointed Black Lives Matter’s Abdullah to the LA County Human Relations Commission.
Commissioner McClain-Hill is a longtime associate of MRT. Federal authorities even investigated their alliance involving an $862 million deal funded by taxpayers.
The event was sponsored by the SEIU, a consistent financial backer of MRT.
Over the years, MRT has sponsored Pan-African Film Festivals featuring Ava DuVernay.
The event was co-hosted by the California Endowment, which funds nonprofits and campaigns led by allies of MRT.
Moderator Areva Martin is a longtime ally of MRT, and California Endowment funds her Special Needs Network nonprofit.
The other co-host was an obscure group called Blackwood Alliance. It’s tied to South LA operative Steven Belhumeur, who also has a past with MRT.
Nipsey Hussle (rapper/Rollin’ 60s Crips), Cynthia McClain-Hill (LAPD Commissioner), Ava DuVernay (filmmaker), Areva Martin (attorney/activist), Dr. Melina Abdullah (Black Lives Matter-LA) (photo-Areva Martin/twitter)
Commissioner McClain-Hill has been criticized by the union representing LAPD for “publicly aligning herself with disruptive activists”. She was appointed to the police commission last year by Eric Garcetti, some speculate as a favor to Supervisor Ridley-Thomas. Groups seeking police abolition, like Black Lives Matter, wasted no time singing McClain-Hill’s praises.
“She is really black,” Abdullah said last September. “She’s connected to us.”
That sentiment seems to remain today.
From Tuesday’s commission meeting, Abdullah pointed out to her Facebook Live viewers that Commissioner McClain-Hill shares her disgust with the ‘LAPD filibuster’.
(JANUARY 9, 2017) Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) is recruiting organizers for its upcoming “We Shall Not Be Moved” rally and march, which begins Saturday in Washington D.C.
Sharpton, who is the President and Founder of NAN, voiced-over a 60 second call to action being broadcast on urban contemporary giant WBLS, one of the top-rated radio stations in New York City.
In the spot (below), Sharpton pitches his events as an opportunity to “send a notice” to Donald Trump.
Al Sharpton’s ad recruiting organizers for the National Action Network’s “We Shall Not Be Moved” rally and march on January 14, 2017. Broadcast on WBLS. Screenshot: NAN website
“We must stand up and say that civil rights and voting rights and police reform and jobs are non-negotiable,” Sharpton instructs the WBLS audience.
“In the name of Dr. (Martin Luther) King, let’s send a notice to the new administration. We shall not be moved.”
Sharpton went on to inform potential recruits how to “to sign up for buses and to help organize.”
The NAN website links to a Google document providing a detailed list of contacts for anyone interested in traveling to DC to make noise.
In fact, one of the bus coordinators listed is Newark (NJ) Council President Mildred Crump, a 77 year-old whose city hall office appears to be helping Sharpton organize against President-elect Trump.
The Councilwoman’s city email account and phone line are being used to coordinate a bus trip to Sharpton’s DC march originating from Newark City Hall (920 Broad Street).
Partial list of bus coordinators organizing trips to Washington DC for Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, including Newark City Council President Mildred Crump. Source: National Action Network “Bus Departure Information” (archive)
(DECEMBER 23, 2016) Just in time for the holiday, activists affiliated with Black Lives Matter invaded the law offices of LAPD Commission President Matt Johnson to send him some Christmas love.
Flyers intended to intimidate and embarrass the police commissioner were distributed throughout Ziffren Brittenham LLP last week. Activists tagged the lobby, the elevator, and even created makeshift ornaments for the firm’s Christmas tree.
Commissioner Johnson appears to be the only member of the Eric Garcetti-appointed board that has yet to be co-opted by the anti-police group. Expect more of these tactics directed at Johnson in the new year as he continues to fill the role of “noble patsy”, or as BLMLA leader Melina Abdullah likes to call him, the “House Negro”.
@direct7000 LAPD MATT JOHNSON WHAT HAPPENED 2 #WakeishaWilson ? ASK STAFF IF THEY LIKE 🌲 DECORATING? @BLMLA #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/eIGz4faj4a
— dblsolo7 (@direct7000)
December 16, 2016
The text of the flyers read:
“Matthew M. Johnson is an entertainment lawyer, managing attorney at Ziffren Brittenham, LLP, and he is the President of the Los Angeles Police Commission, a civilian oversight board, which has functioned as a rubber-stamp body for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Under Mr. Johnson’s presidency, LAPD continues to lead the nation as the most murderous police department. This year alone LAPD has killed 20 people including four children - Jesse Romero, age 14, Jose Mendez, age 16, Kenny Watkins and Richard Risher, age 18. From 2012 to August of 2016, of the 1,664 biased policing complaints filed against LAPD officers, 0 were sustained by LAPD’s Internal Affairs Department investigation process. Furthermore, there were 176 sexual misconduct complaints filed against LAPD officers between 2012-2014. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership, the Police Commission has failed its responsibility to investigate and take action to stop this state-sanctioned violence. Mr. Johnson is complicit in the abuse, brutality, and murder committed by LAPD officers.”
Unfortunately for Commissioner Johnson, none of his peers will have his back.
Commissioners Cynthia McClain-Hill and Shane Murphy Goldsmith have proven to be Black Lives Matter pacifiers, while star-struck Commissioner Steve Soboroff has flipped and now gushes over BLM donors like Jay Z, who donated $1.5 million to the anti-cop, anti-capitalist movement earlier this year.
The LAPD Commission has been overrun with appointees that help advance Black Lives Matter’s goals, which include police disarmament and police abolition.
Earlier this month LAPD Commissioner Steve Soboroff proudly posed with Black Lives Matter donor Jay Z, who directed $1.5 million to the movement.
(DECEMBER 22, 2016) Mayor Eric Garcetti’s LAPD Commission is no friend of law and order.
Law enforcement support President-elect Donald Trump because they feel like he has their back.
Unfortunately, cops don’t feel the same way about the LAPD Commission, Mayor Garcetti, or the way both have recently embraced the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement.
LAPD proudly posed with Donald Trump during the campaign
Coincidentally, the Commission became more BLM-friendly after activists ended a 54-day City Hall encampment in September. You may recall, one of the “Occupy LA City Hall” demands was for Garcetti to “appoint real community advocates to the LA Police Commission.”
Garcetti did as he was demanded to do, placing not one, but two new Black Lives Matter-friendly commissioners on that board.
Then the activists backed off the mayor. Just in time for his campaign for re-election.
Garcetti, who lost the African-American vote to Wendy Greuel in 2013, is putting his political aspirations before public safety. Who cares about the integrity of his police force when there is an election to win next May?
His first new addition to the Commission was attorney Cynthia McClain-Hill, who immediately changed the tone by pacifying Black Lives Matter. The neophyte temporarily became a nemesis of Commissioner Soboroff, constantly stepping on his toes. At the time, Soboroff seemed to be one of the good guys. But he soon folded, issuing a public apology to McClain-Hill, Black Lives Matter, their allies, and more. I wonder who told him to do that?
Soon after, Garcetti placed Shane Murphy Goldsmith on the board. Goldsmith runs a foundation that funds some of the most anti-cop groups in California, including several nonprofits affiliated with Black Lives Matter which have disrupted LAPD Commission meetings for years. In fact, one group funded by Goldsmith’s foundation recently filed a federal lawsuit against LAPD.
LAPD Commissioner Steve Soboroff poses with Black Lives Matter donor Jay Z courtside at an LA Clippers game earlier this month. Photo: Steve Soboroff/twitter
Meanwhile, star-struck Commissioner Soboroff seems oblivious to the fact that gushing over rapper Jay Z, who donated $1.5 million to the Black Lives Matter movement, is a slap in the face to the men and women officers in the street. Black Lives Matter seeks to abolish the police, and uniformed LAPD are often targets of the group’s anti-cop rhetoric and antics.
It appears that the only Garcetti appointee that has not been co-opted is Commission President Matt Johnson. He is the noble patsy, who Garcetti has placed in an impossible situation, partly based on the color of his skin.
Still, Black Lives Matter-LA leader Melina Abdullah often insults Johnson by calling him the “House Negro.”
Soboroff used to have his back, but Johnson is on his own now.
Look for Black Lives Matter to go hard at Johnson in 2017.
(DECEMBER 5, 2016) The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC), an anti-police nonprofit funded by an LAPD Commissioner’s foundation, continues to fly under the radar with the English-speaking media of Los Angeles.
Case in point:
No media covered the obvious conflicts of interest presented by the recent addition of Shane Murphy Goldsmith, appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti, to the LAPD Commission. Commissioner Goldsmith’s foundation funds many groups seeking to dismantle and abolish LAPD.
The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against LAPD, but the Los Angeles Times never identified the YJC as the plaintiff it its report.
The Los Angeles Times tried to make a heroine out of a YJC organizer in a Donald Trump hit job, but failed to mention the anti-cop group or its agenda in the body of the story. (President-elect Trump was endorsed by most law enforcement groups).
Last week, the YJC held a seminar discouraging people from contacting police during emergencies and crimes. Yet, the event was only covered, or should I say promoted, by Univision’s Channel 34 (KMEX), who deemed it important enough to include in the first segment of its Spanish-speaking newscast. (see report below)
The forum was held at the YJC’s Chuco’s Justice Center - a venue which hosts many anti-police events for various groups in Southern California, including Black Lives Matter.
The YJC has teamed up with the Black Lives Matter coalition in an ongoing effort to disrupt and dismantle law enforcement (among other institutions), yet, Southern Californians are oblivious to this coordinated campaign attacking LAPD, the LA County Sheriff and the LA School Police.
With Mayor Garcetti up for re-election in May 2017, he seems to have sided with the anti-police activists. They have backed off the mayor since his questionable Commission appointments of Cynthia McClain-Hill and Goldsmith.
In Garcetti’s Los Angeles, no one seems to have law enforcement’s back except Trump supporters, who were mocked earlier this year by LAPD Commissoner Steve Soboroff.
The men and women of LAPD, LASD and the LA School Police deserve better from our community, elected and appointed politicians, and the media.
(DECEMBER 3, 2016) The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations is holding a series of public hearings on policing. The third of five forums took place Saturday in Long Beach.
It sounds innocent enough. Until you see the flyer advertisement, which reads:
“Have you been harassed or intimidated by law enforcement? The Commission wants to hear from the community. Help us keep law enforcement accountable.”
If it sounds like a Black Lives Matter event, that’s because it is.
Black Lives Matter-LA leader Melina Abdullah doubles as an appointed Commissioner on the County’s Human Relations Board, and Saturday’s hearing was co-sponsored by the Black Lives Matter-Long Beach branch.
Commissioner Abdullah said law students will attend the hearings “to help members of the public file official complaints.”
Of course, no cops are invited.
Abdullah’s BLM-LA group even promoted the hearing on social media.
“We MUST demand public safety TRANSFORMATION,” BLM-LA tweeted.
If that tweet doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about the motive of these hearings, consider the Commission officially partnered with anti-police groups for the previous powwow, including Dignity and Power Now (founded by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors), and the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN).
Whether it be LAPD, LASD or the LA School Police, anti-cop activists are actively attempting to dismantle local law enforcement, little by little, day by day. Meanwhile, BLMLA’s lead organizer sits on a County Commission encouraging the public to file complaints against police, as her stated end game of abolishing law enforcement continues to be concealed by a lazy, enabling media.
(NOVEMBER 16, 2016) On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA 33rd District) rattled off a cliche-filled laundry list of reasons why President-elect Trump should withdraw his appointment of Steve Bannon as White House Chief Strategist.
“Bannon’s Breitbart engaged in racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic and homophobic hate speech,” Lieu’s statement reads. “Now Bannon has a seat in the Oval Office and that is unacceptable.”
But before Looney Lieu was a big-time congressman in D.C, he was proud to associate himself with Bannon’s publication.
It was 2014, and Lieu was in a bloodbath to succeed Henry Waxman. He was neck and neck with fellow Democrat Wendy Greuel - both clawing to get out of the open primary alive.
Breitbart's analysis of who wins on June 3 in #CD33. http://t.co/OkvaEphkfm
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu)
May 31, 2014
Days before the election, Lieu tweeted out not one, but two favorable Breitbart articles that might have given him the boost he desperately needed. After all, Lieu has a history of conning conservatives.
@CaptainBirkhead The Breitbart article bothered the Greuel campaign so much that they felt compelled to respond. http://t.co/UfDQSL8y9T
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu)
May 31, 2014
Who knows?
Bannon and Breitbart might just be the reason Lieu advanced past the primary, went on to win the general, and now feels comfortable disrespecting President-elect Trump and soliciting funds for the militant left.
GROUP FUNDED BY LAPD COMMISH TO HOST “BLACK ONLY SPACE”
(NOVEMBER 11, 2016) In response to Donald Trump’s big win on Tuesday, allies of Black Lives Matter will gather at a designated “Black Only Space” on Sunday morning to ‘rethink black freedom under a Trump presidency’.
The event will take place at Chuco’s Youth Justice Center, the home of the Youth Justice Coalition, an anti-police nonprofit funded by LAPD Commissioner Shane Murphy Goldsmith’s foundation.
You may recall, Black Lives Matter held an event at Chuco’s this summer after five police officers were murdered in Dallas, but it was open to all races. When the powwow concluded, police allowed participants to take over the streets of Inglewood, ultimately marching to the 405 Freeway to block traffic.
Los Angeles Times, July 11, 2016:
There were no police officers in the middle of the action, no rows of cruisers trying to block where the protesters could move. In fact, demonstrators themselves were seen directing traffic around La Cienega Boulevard and Manchester Avenue, where the crowd had gathered. That prompted some television anchors covering the story to question where the police were.
The hands-off approach was by design, Inglewood officials said. Police and city leaders decided that they would keep their distance from marchers as long as they stayed peaceful and orderly.
Apparently in Inglewood, shutting down a major freeway falls into the “peaceful and orderly” category.
Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts, a former police chief, said cops enforcing the law only “makes it more media-worthy”.
Los Angeles Times, July 11, 2016:
Protesters walked on the 405 Freeway and blocked traffic in both directions. About 10 minutes later, the protesters left the freeway, and the California Highway Patrol officers stood guard near onramps. But Inglewood police remained at some distance until the protesters went home.
Butts said some police were monitoring the situation a few blocks away but saw no need to get closer.
(NOVEMBER 3, 2016) On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors created a civilian oversight commission to keep an eye on the Sheriff’s Department (LASD). The change came about after years of persistence from a coalition led by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who seeks to dismantle the police.
Before Patrisse Cullors co-founded Black Lives Matter, she organized the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails. (Photo: Dignity and Power Now)
Remember, LASD is not LAPD. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is under contract with certain cities within LA County, like Compton, and provides patrol services to other unincorporated areas. The nation’s biggest Sheriff’s Department also runs the LA County jail system - including the largest detention center in the world.
The road leading to LASD “oversight” began in 2012 when Cullors, a disciple of Weather Underground radical Eric Mann, started recruiting ex-cons.
Los Angeles Times, April 14, 2014:
Cullors' Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails has applied steady pressure on the county Board of Supervisors, in part by trying to organize a large and unlikely bloc of county voters — former jail inmates.
Her coalition consisted of several nonprofits with anti-police agendas, including one that just filed a federal lawsuit against LAPD last week. Coincidentally, some of those same groups are part of an alliance that has disrupted LAPD Commission meetings for more than two years.
Strange that some of the same groups shutting down LAPD Commission meetings are responsible for the formation of LASD’s new oversight board.
Even better, those groups brazenly lobbied to get Cullors appointed as an LASD oversight commissioner.
Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2016:
(Advocates) denounced a decision not to include Black Lives Matter activist Patrisse Cullors on the commission while appointing law enforcement representatives. Her exclusion “raises serious concerns about whether this commission will protect incarcerated Brown and Black people, which is what Patrisse and the community urgently fought for,” Mark-Anthony Johnson, director of wellness at Dignity and Power Now, said in a news release.
Hours after that news release was distributed, Cullors re-affirmed her motive of dismantling law enforcement.
And the politicians play right along, because who can say ‘no’ to “civilian oversight”?
Considering LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas once appointed Black Lives Matter-LA leader Melina Abdullah to the County’s Human Relations Commission, it might only be a matter of time until the activists get an anti-cop sympathizer appointed to LASD’s new board.
The established LAPD Commission has two, thanks to pressure from Black Lives Matter, its allies and a weak mayor. In fact, Eric Garcetti’s most recent appointment heads a foundation that funds these same groups attempting to dismantle law enforcement, including Cullors’ current employer.
Garcetti has shown the activists that if they make enough noise, they’ll get LAPD appointments which are friendlier to their cause, no matter how subversive it might be.
Expect the anti-cop crew to implement similar tactics as they try to get someone like Cullors appointed as an LASD oversight commissioner.
Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2016:
As the vote to create the commission was about to commence, (Supervisor Sheila) Kuehl walked over to the commissioners seated in the audience and thanked them. She also offered a warning.
“You don’t know what you’re getting yourselves into,” she told them.
(OCTOBER 26, 2016) The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC), a non-profit funded by LA Police Commissioner Shane Murphy Goldsmith’s foundation, is suing the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Counsel for the Plaintiff, filed the lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday, but most media deemed to be credible are making no mention of YJC’s involvement.
Los Angeles Times, October 25th:
The Los Angeles Police Department has violated the due process rights of thousands of city residents by serving them with gang injunctions without first allowing them to challenge those orders in court, according to a federal lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The suit seeks to stop the department from enforcing injunctions against people who have not been given a chance to show they aren’t gang members.
LAWSUIT WITH YJC LISTED AS PLAINTIFF CAN BE FOUND HERE
Last week, this piddly blog revealed several anti-police nonprofits which receive support from LAPD Commissioner Goldsmith’s foundation. Since then, the YJC has shut down an Environmental Impact Report hearing and organized against the LA School Police.
Now, YJC wants a federal court to bar LAPD from enforcing gang injunctions.
All with the blessing of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s newest appointment to the police commission.
Flyer for Youth Justice Coalition's campaign against the LA School Police, in conjunction with Black Lives Matter-LA.
YJC has formed a strong alliance with Black Lives Matter-LA (BLMLA) and other groups seeking to dismantle the police, often taking part in disruptions targeting LAPD Commissioners Matt Johnson and Steve Soboroff.
After protesters caused the October 11th Commission meeting to go into closed session, YJC penned a letter with BLMLA, Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN), Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and White People for Black Lives (WP4BL) criticizing the Board.
Commissioner Goldsmith’s foundation also funds LACAN.
(OCTOBER 15, 2016) On Thursday night, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti welcomed Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani into the Getty House for dinner. Sheikh Tamim is Emir of Qatar, and His Highness has been palling around with Garcetti for nearly a month. Garcetti even greeted him at the airport upon an arrival at LAX in September.
Considering Qatar has such close ties to radical Islamic terrorism, I think such dinner dates are newsworthy (which means I can’t sit with the L.A. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at lunch).
Last month Mayor Eric Garcetti dined with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar. Garcetti hosted His Highness again on October 13, 2016. QNA photo.
FUN FACTS:
In July, Qatar pledged $30 million to the Hamas terrorist government in Gaza.
John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, told her Qatar has been “providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL.”
In 2013, Sheikh Tamim convinced the Taliban to open an office in Qatar.
Qatar has long been believed to be allied with various militant Islamic groups and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Qatar has supported Al Nusra, a Syrian Al Qaeda branch, through a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme.
(OCTOBER 10, 2016) On Saturday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was seen in Arizona sporting an “Arrest Arpaio” t-shirt while campaigning against the Sheriff of Maricopa County, among other things.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti poses for the Bazta Arpaio campaign while modeling an “Arrest Arpaio” t-shirt. This photo was used by the campaign to promote the concept of ‘taking out’ Joe Arpaio; Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona.
At first, Team Garcetti seemed proud to be part of the campaign to “take out Sheriff Joe Arpaio.” Until they got called out.
“Shame on Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, for endorsing the progressive fantasy of locking up political opponents,” tweeted City Hall critic Joseph Mailander. He must have been on to something, considering on-again/off-again Garcetti Deputy Chief of Staff, Rick Jacobs deleted the referenced image within an hour.
But thanks to screen-capture technology, it can be seen below.
Team Garcetti mastermind Rick Jacobs tweeted, then deleted, this image of Mayor Garcetti donning an “Arrest Arpaio” t-shirt.
The “Arrest Arpaio” shirt is being sold by “People United for Justice,” a group described by its partner as “a new 501(c)4...whose mission is police accountability and criminal justice reform.”
Sounds like Black Lives Matter.
So the day after receiving a letter from the police union criticizing his Cynthia-McClain-Hill appointment, Garcetti is modeling t-shirts being sold by a group “whose mission is police accountability and criminal justice reform.”
This probably won’t improve his image with the Los Angeles Police Protective League.
(OCTOBER 9, 2016) On Friday, the union representing LAPD sent a letter to Mayor Eric Garcetti and Council President Herb Wesson condemning the recent Police Commission appointment of Cynthia McClain-Hill.
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The letter was written by the Los Angeles Police Protective League Board of Directors and was signed by LAPPL President Craig Lally.
“We write to express our deep concern and considerable disappointment in your recent appointee to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, Cynthia McClain-Hill,” the letter begins.
Ever since joining the board, McClain-Hill has gone out of her way to distance herself from Matthew Johnson, Steve Soboroff and the rest of her peers. Apparently, it happened again last week.
“Commissioner Matthew Johnson had to adjourn the October 4 public meeting of the Police Commission due to the highly disruptive behavior of the professional agitators who show up each Tuesday,” Lally wrote.
“Rather than joining her fellow Commissioners after the public adjournment, Ms. McClain-Hill stayed with the group responsible for shutting down the public meeting, and encouraged their anti-democratic behavior.”
That wasn’t the first time McClain-Hill went out of her way to align herself with anti-police activists. She has even empowered them to bully other meeting attendees who aren’t affiliated with their movement. She’s rudely stepped on Commissioner Soboroff’s toes more than once, sending a signal to the weekly troublemakers that she’s on their side.
After “protestors” shut down last week’s meeting, they shouted “Whose house? Our house!” Then, even worse, McClain-Hill told them “it’s not your fault” the meeting was shut down! (see video below)
A video posted by PM Beers (@pmbeers) on Oct 4, 2016 at 12:42pm PDT
Just when you thought Garcetti couldn’t have made things worse, he did exactly that.
It’s worse!
At this point, it seems like Commissioner Johnson is our only hope to possibly contain the suspected Trojan horse known as Cynthia McClain-Hill. Hopefully, Soboroff will step up so Johnson’s not a sitting duck.
Would it be pessimistic to predict that it won’t get any better as long as McClain-Hill sits on the Commission?
Garcetti should nip this in the bud now before McClain-Hill causes more cops in the street to lose even more confidence in both him and the Board of Police Commissioners. But since Mayor Garcetti, and his pajama boys, are terrified of black people don’t hold your breath waiting on this to happen.
