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  • Director Roman Polanski is sued over more allegations of sexual assault of a minor

    03/18/2024 11:10:47 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 7 replies
    Associated Press ^ | March 13, 2024 | Andrew Dalton
    A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, on Tuesday. The account is similar to the still-unresolved Los Angeles criminal sexual assault case that prompted Polanski in 1978 to flee to Europe, where he has remained since. The woman who filed the civil lawsuit said she went to dinner with Polanski, who knew she was under 18, in 1973, months after she had met him at a...
  • Nolte: ‘Burglary Tourists’ Fly in from South America to Rob Dem-Run Los Angeles

    03/18/2024 9:26:44 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 7 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | JOHN NOLTE
    Tourism is up in Democrat-run Los Angeles — “burglary tourism”: from South America. Well, at least someone wants to visit that *&*&^&^&. LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton told the far-left and slowly dying Los Angeles Times that “South American theft groups are not new in L.A., but they have become more active in recent months.” The Times adds: “He cautioned that it’s difficult to know for certain how many robberies can be attributed to foreign burglars, but said evidence indicates they are behind scores of break-ins.” In one area, north of the 118 freeway, he estimates there “were 94 burglaries,...
  • A California Synagogue Leased Space to a Muslim Group, Telling Members They Had an Obligation To 'Strengthen the Bonds' Between Communities. Things Went South From There.

    03/18/2024 9:19:19 AM PDT · by george76 · 36 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 18, 2024 | Adam Kredo
    Hamakom synagogue leased space to Islamic group and covered up pictures of Israeli hostages.. A California synagogue axed its leadership and is struggling to retain members after leasing its facility to a Muslim group that brought in an anti-Israel speaker who compared Israel to Nazi Germany. Hamakom synagogue, a conservative congregation of around 900 families located in an upscale Los Angeles suburb, says it was trying to ease tensions between the Jewish and Muslim communities when it decided to lease its space this month to the Islamic Society of West Valley, a neighboring Muslim faith group that needed space to...
  • LA battles spate of 'burglary tourists' as marauding gangs from Chile, Ecuador Colombia and Peru jet in on 90-day visas and ransack millionaire mansions before fleeing back to South America

    03/18/2024 1:16:31 AM PDT · by Libloather · 36 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 3/18/24 | Stephen M. Lepore
    The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a task force to try to crack down on 'burglary tourists' who use the US tourism visa system to commit crimes. Cunning criminals from Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru target wealthy neighborhoods in places with relaxed criminal justice laws to conduct home burglaries - before returning home with the loot while out on bail. The troubling trend of 'lanzas internacionales' - translated to 'international thieves' - dates back at least two years across America, while the problem has also reared its ugly head in the United Kingdom. Authorities in Los Angeles announced the...
  • A Chilling Batch of Evidence Could Revive the Unsolved Black Dahlia Murder Mystery

    03/16/2024 7:19:53 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 24 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | March 13, 2024 | Michael Natale
    Emerging clues may shine a new light on Hollywood’s darkest tale: the shocking 1947 death of Elizabeth Short. On January 15, 1947, an aspiring 22-year-old actress named Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in Los Angeles, California, her nude, posed body cut in half and severely mutilated. “It was pretty gruesome,” Brian Carr, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who worked on Short’s case, later said. It was an understatement; Short’s killer had also drained her corpse of blood and scrubbed it clean. “I just can’t imagine someone doing that to...
  • Jeep burned at Los Angeles intersection

    03/10/2024 2:20:11 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 57 replies
    Twitter ^ | March 10, 2024
    Intersection of West 63rd Street and Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles
  • ‘Stranger Things’ Star’s Book Signing Cancelled Over “Safety Concerns” After Israel Comments

    03/09/2024 7:19:44 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    NME ^ | 8th March 2024 | Alex Berry
    The event marked the third cancellation on the book tourStranger Things star Brett Gelman has spoken out after a third bookstore cancelled his signing event, following backlash surrounding his views on Israel. Book Soup in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, was set to be the next stop on the star’s debut book tour, promoting his short story collection, The Terrifying Realm Of The Possible: Nearly True Stories (set for release on March 19). However, similarly to bookstores in San Francisco and Winnetka, Illinois, Book Soup have cancelled his appearance. The decision comes after Gelman has been outspoken in support of Israel,...
  • Former NBA player, actor gets 90 years to life in California State Prison for violent sexual assaults

    03/02/2024 12:19:03 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 32 replies
    ktla ^ | 03/02/2024 | Will Conybeare
    A former NBA player and actor was sentenced to 90 years to life in prison on Friday for a series of violent sexual assaults, some of which occurred in Los Angeles County, authorities said. “During their investigation, detectives learned [that] in 2010, Byrd was convicted of sexual assault involving a different victim,” the LAPD release stated. “Detectives also discovered that Byrd had been arrested for sexually assaulting a young woman in Washington State in 2005.” Byrd’s victims told investigators that he was “initially charming” before he subsequently forced them into a variety of sex acts. “He started as a charmer,...
  • Police Issue Warning Over Thefts Increasing 1,285% For Chevy Camaro. Criminals Using New Method

    03/01/2024 6:17:07 PM PST · by george76 · 23 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | March 01, 2024 | John Oyewale
    Los Angeles police warned Thursday that suspects are using a new method that has caused a 1,285% spike in the theft of Chevrolet Camaro,. “[K]ey clone devices have been utilized in many newer model Camaro thefts,” the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said in the statement. “These devices are about the size of a cell phone and area programming tool that picks up the signal of a key fob nearby which the device then clones.” The Gang Enforcement Detail (GED) belonging to LAPD’s Newton Community Police Station arrested a juvenile allegedly in possession of such a device.. “This young person...
  • Los Angeles Hires And Arms Foreign Criminals To Police U.S. Citizens

    02/29/2024 10:06:35 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 02/29/2024 | Jordan Boyd
    Illegally present foreigners who don’t have the constitutional right to bear arms can arrest and even disarm a U.S. citizen who does.The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is hiring illegal border crossers with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status and equipping them with guns to police American citizens in California. President Barack Obama’s 2012 DACA order indefinitely delays the deportation of illegal border crossers who enter the United States claiming to be minors. Recipients do not start becoming U.S. citizens unless they apply for a green card. That is why many seek endless DACA renewals that allow them to continue...
  • Shocking photos show aftermath of horror pit bull attack where LA breeder was viciously mauled to death by pack of 13 dogs as he tried to feed them in backyard kennel

    02/17/2024 3:59:29 PM PST · by Angelino97 · 49 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | February 17, 2024 | Isabelle Stanley
    Shocking photos captured the chaotic and gruesome aftermath of a fatal dog attack where a man was mauled to death by his 13 pitbulls in his yard in Los Angeles. LAPD officers were called to the home on the 900 block of Thorson Avenue, Compton, at 7am on Friday after a concerned friend went to the house and discovered his body. Officials believe he was a breeder and had gone into the yard to feed the dogs on Thursday night when a fight broke out between the animals and they turned on him. Helicopter footage showed his bloodied body lying...
  • Gascón pressed at Los Angeles County DA debate over lax policies on gang-related crime enhancements

    02/11/2024 12:15:51 PM PST · by grundle · 7 replies
    Fox News via Yahoo ^ | February 10, 2024 | Landon Mion
    Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón faced tough questioning during a district attorney debate over his policies on gang-related crime enhancements, including from a mother whose child was killed by a gang member. When Gascón took over as district attorney, he barred prosecutors from pursuing enhanced punishments for gang members, according to Fox 11. Several of the deputy district attorneys who are running against him said at the debate on Thursday in Beverly Hills that they disagreed with this policy. Emma Rivas, whose son was murdered in 2016, confronted Gascón about the impact his policies had on the killer's...
  • Letters to the Editor: I'm a psychiatrist. Lawyers shouldn't be assessing Biden's cognitive ability

    02/12/2024 1:44:02 PM PST · by Carl Vehse · 107 replies
    LA Times ^ | February 12, 2024 | Sidney Weissman, M.D., Highland Park, Ill.
    Justice Department special counsel Robert Hur has training in neither psychiatry nor neurology, yet he included an assessment of President Biden's cognitive functioning in his report declining to bring charges for mishandling classified information. Memory assessment is a complex task and cannot be undertaken over five hours in interviews with attorneys.
  • The great train heists of the 21st Century: Thieves armed with bolt cutters and crowbars are clambering aboard lumbering freight locomotives laden with Amazon boxes and staging brazen raids that shame Los Angeles

    02/10/2024 1:02:48 PM PST · by libh8er · 49 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 2.10.2024 | Will Potter
    California cops have been left scrambling as gangs of thieves armed with bolt cutters and crowbars are clambering aboard mile-long trundling freight trains to loot expensive electronic goods, high-end clothing and jewelry. Sometimes the robbers strike while the lumbering locomotives are still moving, while others brazenly trigger the emergency brakes so that their accomplices can hack their way into the metal containers. LA is the undisputed 'capital of cargo theft' with trains ferrying goods from the major ports, but the spate of train thefts have almost doubled across the nation since 2019. The issue of mass cargo theft shot into...
  • How Paris Jackson Erased Her Tattoos for the Grammy Awards Red Carpet

    02/05/2024 5:00:53 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 57 replies
    The Hollywood Reporter ^ | Feb 4, 2024 | Laurie Brookins
    The multi-hyphenate daughter of Michael Jackson opted to pair her skin-baring Celine gown with an absence of her signature ink. Viewers of the 2024 Grammys might have noticed that Paris Jackson went for a look that exuded a sleek and chic vibe, and in doing so, the actress and singer-songwriter somehow wasn’t sporting one of her signature elements: her ink. Jackson worked with New York-based Cover FX, the vegan and cruelty-free skincare line, to “erase” her 80-plus body tattoos to create a clean look for the Grammys red carpet. Makeup artists Tyson Fountaine and Paul Blanch worked on Jackson’s body...
  • Rapper Killer Mike arrested at Grammys moments after winning three awards

    02/05/2024 4:08:11 AM PST · by janetjanet998 · 39 replies
    Rapper Killer Mike, won three Grammy awards for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance, and Best Rap Song, finds himself arrested at the Los Angeles ceremony. Handcuffed, he is escorted out of the Crypto arena Killer Mike was heard saying: “Are you serious?” to officers as they escorted him out of the building. It is currently unknown why he was arrested.
  • Killer Mike is taken away in handcuffs from Grammys after winning three awards: LAPD have not said why activist and rap star was taken into custody

    02/04/2024 8:17:07 PM PST · by Libloather · 28 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 2/04/24 | Harriet Alexander
    Rapper Killer Mike has been taken away from the Grammys in handcuffs following a 'physical altercation' after winning three awards. The 48-year-old rapper, known for his work as a member of rap duo Run The Jewels, won Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for his solo song 'Scientists & Engineers,' and the Best Rap Album for Michael. A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department told DailyMail.com that a man was being questioned, but they could not confirm his identity. 'At 4pm an adult male was taken into custody for a physical altercation that took place inside the arena,'...
  • Wikileaks doc: Al Qaeda on the brink of a dirty bomb, feds seeking missing 9/11 suspects

    02/02/2011 8:27:29 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 5 replies
    Hotair ^ | 02/01/2011 | Allahpundit
    Drudge is giving this banner treatment but I’m not sure why. Of course Al Qaeda is on the brink of a dirty bomb. Their comrades-in-arms in the Taliban are the jihadist proxy of one of the world’s biggest nuclear proliferators, aren’t they? If the filthbags in Pakistani intelligence want Al Qaeda to have nuclear material, they’ll find a way to smuggle some out of the state supply, I’m sure. In fact, according to a new piece in the NYT, Pakistan’s practically swimming in fissile material these days. Never mind the dirty bombs; how long before AQ or Lashkar e-Taiba or...
  • Democrats Want to Save the Rats

    02/01/2024 3:38:19 AM PST · by Chad C. Mulligan · 13 replies
    Sultan Knish ^ | 1 Feb 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    Los Angeles isn’t the city of angels: it’s the city of rats. Last year, LA shot up in the rankings of the “rattiest cities” from third to second place, and it’s closing in fast on Chicago. What is its secret? There is the fetid filth of the junkie vagrant camps where typhus, a medieval disease spread by rats, made a comeback almost as fast as crime once city officials legalized the ‘homeless’ trifecta of street living, drug use and shoplifting. And like criminals and junkies, the rats have Democrats on their side. In the fall of last year, Gov. Newsom...
  • What's Behind Massive Layoffs at Los Angeles Times and Sports Illustrated, with Andrew Klavan

    01/28/2024 8:48:20 AM PST · by Steely Tom · 66 replies
    YouTube ^ | 26 January 2024 | Megyn Kelly
    Megyn Kelly is joined by Andrew Klavan, author of "The House of Love and Death,” to discuss major layoffs at the Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated potentially shutting down, media outlets losing audience and money after going woke, and more.