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NEW: Police release bodycam footage showing a suspect stealing a female officer's gun, leaving the officer begging for her life. Embarassing. The incident unfolded in Fountain Valley, California, earlier this year. Police were initially called in response to a report that 26-year-old Osean McClintock was trying to get into an occupied car. When officers arrived, McClintock wrestled the gun from the female officer while she was still in her patrol car. "Please don't shoot me!" the officer begged, as she cried and panted. Thanks to a nearby male officer, her life was spared. The other officer shot and k*lled McClintock,...

This female has no business being a police officer, period. On display is the worst tactics ever captured on body camera video.This is an embarrassment to all LEO’s.She’s lucky to be alive.

Federal agents arrested a South Los Angeles couple this week on charges relating to a February incident where the couple allegedly tried to ram an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicle. The couple reportedly drove into oncoming traffic to stop the ICE agents from executing an immigration arrest warrant. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced the arrests and charges this week following the arrest of Gustavo Torres, 28, and Kiara Jaime-Flores, 34. The South LA couple are charged with conspiracy to impede or injure an officer. “These defendants are charged with knowingly and recklessly putting...

Karma took the wheel. The serial Tesla road-rage driver who landed back behind bars for allegedly assaulting a teen driver and her mother in Hawaii last week was found beaten to a bloody pulp in prison. Nathaniel Radimak, 39, was assaulted by inmates at Halawa Correctional Facility around 4:25 p.m. Monday, the Hawaii Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told ABC 7. In one viral video, Radimak jumped out of his charcoal-colored 2022 Tesla Model X with no license plates, armed with a pipe, and pummeled the truck behind him on Jan. 11, 2023. Another victim of Radimak’s rage, identified as...

Gavin Newsom is putting new conditions on a program offering healthcare to illegal migrants as the state continues to face a budget crisis, though he claims its Donald Trump's fault. California is facing a $12 billion deficit thanks in part to the progressive liberal - who may have presidential ambitions - policies, including a state-funded health care program for immigrants living in California without legal status. The deep blue state was among one of the first states to extend free health care benefits to all poor adults regardless of their immigration status last year, an ambitious plan touted by Newsom...

role as a fifth- and sixth-grade teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary to manipulate her victims, luring them with gifts, special attention and even completing their homework, according to the San Diego County district attorney’s office. When one of her victims was not allowed access to social media or personal electronic devices at home, she went so far as to set up an unsanctioned after-school program and directed him to message her through a school chat application, prosecutors said. The 36-year-old teacher pleaded guilty in February to two counts of forcible lewd acts on a child, one count of a lewd...

An investigation is underway after a Los Angeles police officer’s personal rifle accidentally fired a round in a parking garage earlier this week, officials announced. The May 9 incident occurred in the lower-level parking structure of the Compton Courthouse, located at 200 West Compton Boulevard, according to an LAPD news release. The officer, who has not been identified, was reportedly standing outside his patrol vehicle and was “manipulating his personally owned patrol rifle, when a Non-Tactical Unintentional Discharge occurred,” police said. Surrounded by concrete, the bullet ricocheted off the ceiling and struck the roof of the officer’s unoccupied patrol vehicle.

A 79-year-old Army veteran was brutally murdered on Monday during a carjacking in Southern California. James Norman was at a gas station in Norco, California, cleaning his Chevy Trailblazer with the engine running when 29-year-old Ryan Hewitt jumped in the driver’s seat and drove off. Norman was hanging out the back door and was dragged and then thrown from the vehicle. His family said he was just too frail to get out in time. Hewitt was charged with felony carjacking and second-degree murder. He is being held on $1 million bail. ... James Norman is survived by his beloved wife,...

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday ordered cities across the Golden state to start cleaning up its homeless encampments, stating that the "time for inaction is over" and that the state has a lot of federal funding to help with the efforts. California has become known for having the highest homeless rate in the country with 187,000 homeless people as of 2024, who largely occupy cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. Los Angeles has the second highest homeless population in the country, behind New York City. Newsom laid out a plan to eliminate the homeless population from his...

Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom is under new federal scrutiny as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) opens an investigation into whether the state improperly funneled taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens. The DHS probe, led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Los Angeles, focuses on the state’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) — a 100 percent state-funded program designed to provide monthly benefits to non-citizens ineligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) due to their immigration status. According to a Title 8 subpoena issued by HSI Los Angeles, federal officials are demanding records from the Los...

For more than half a century, there was just one place on the UC Berkeley campus where you’d run into 20-year-old Aaron Rodgers rocking a bowl cut, see a stand-up set from comedy legend Robin Williams or hear Grateful Dead icon Jerry Garcia perform live. The Bear’s Lair — Berkeley’s only on-campus pub — was both the only bar with beer dripping from the ceiling after a Jason Kidd-led Cal team shocked Duke in the NCAA Tournament and the only location that made any sense to drop off the torn-down goal post following the 2002 Big Game (I remember, because...

An illegal migrant who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years is facing deportation after making a wrong turn into a California military facility. Ana Camero, 64, took a different route home from her dishwasher job at a La Jolla restaurant on April 7. After stopping at a gas station, she mistakenly drove onto the Marine Corps Depot in San Diego where she was asked for proper identification, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. Unable to provide ID, military officials called Border Patrol and the Mexican native was detained. 'If the individual cannot or does not...

On May 9, 2025 Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk visited the University of California Riverside as part of his nationwide American Comeback Tour and was enthusiastically greeted by students, faculty, staff and visitors. His presentation began with a hat toss as dozens of iconic Make America Great Again (MAGA) baseball caps were thrown into the audience.

The Trump administration announced Monday that it has launched an investigation into California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, a state program that provides monthly cash benefits to aged, blind, and disabled non-citizens who are ineligible for Social Security benefits due to their immigration status.The investigation began in Los Angeles, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations Los Angeles field office issuing a Title 8 subpoena to California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants, the Department of Homeland Security said in a news release. According to the department, the subpoena requests all records from the Los Angeles County Department of Public...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday urged California cities to clear homeless encampments, escalating efforts anew to address the makeshift tents that line underpasses, parks and streets up and down the state. The Democratic governor unveiled a blueprint for a camping ban for cities and counties to follow in announcing more than $3 billion in grants for facilities to treat homeless people and others who struggle with mental health and substance use disorders. He used the occasion to exhort cities and counties once again to use the money and policy changes provided by the state to do...

California voters have sharply differing views over two of the state’s most prominent Democrats, according to a new poll. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, who is expected to decide by the end of the summer whether she runs for California governor in 2026, has near universal name recognition among California voters, and 50% view her favorably, according to a survey by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies that was co-sponsored by The Times. ***Harris, despite losing the presidential election to Donald Trump in 2024, is faring better than Bass among California voters as she weighs a gubernatorial bid next year...

Orange, CA – Records obtained by Operation Rescue confirm that on March 21 Planned Parenthood sent another hemorrhaging woman to the emergency room. This time, from its killing center located in Orange, CA. Planned Parenthood Orange commits abortions up to 24 weeks, well into the second trimester, and it has a history of rushing women to the emergency room after botched abortions. In the last five years, alone, it has injured 11 women – and never had to face any investigation or discipline for even one of those incidents in radically pro-abortion California. In 2024, Operation Rescue also obtained 911...

California Democrats are currently pushing a bill that could ban law-abiding citizens from buying Glock handguns in an attempt to stop criminals from using “Glock switches.” “Glock switches” are federally prohibited plastic pieces that can be affixed to the rear of a Glock slide to make the pistol shoot full auto. It has become in vogue for leftists to target Glock over the illegal use of the switches. For example, on March 19, 2024, Breitbart News noted that Chicago filed a lawsuit against Glock over the switches, although many of the switches in the U.S. originated in China. On February...

(Gray News) - A man was sentenced for his role in transporting thousands of stolen catalytic converters across state lines, laundering money and other related crimes. Tou Sue Vang, 33, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Bechwith. According to court documents, Tou Sue Vang, along with his brother Andrew Vang and mother Monica Moua, purchased stolen catalytic converters from thieves in California and sold them to a buyer in New Jersey for more than $38 million. The buyer then sold the converters and the precious metals to a metal refinery for more than...

California and 16 other states are suing the Trump administration for halting federal money slated to build more electric vehicle chargers. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta accused the Trump administration of unlawfully withholding funding approved by Congress in the lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday. The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program had dedicated $5 billion to expand clean car charging across the country, including more than $300 million for projects in California.