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The Los Angeles Police Department also urged people to steer clear of downtown because burning lithium-ion batteries can release toxic fumes.Waymo has cut off taxi service to parts of Los Angeles after five of its self-driving vehicles were torched during weekend protests about immigration raids.Images Sunday of downtown show Waymo vehicles covered with graffiti. One photo shows protesters waving Mexican and Guatemalan flags while standing atop a Waymo vehicle, while another appears to show a protester hitting the vehicle with a skateboard. The Los Angeles Times reported that some Lime e-scooters also were tossed into the blaze.Waymo confirmed Monday that...

As police struggled with another day of unrest in downtown L.A., several Waymo autonomous taxis were set on fire, sending thick plumes of black smoke billowing high into the air. The dramatic images were captured during an afternoon of clashes between large groups who were protesting immigration raids by the Trump administration and L.A. police who were trying to maintain order. Protesters converged on the Civic Center area of downtown L.A. on Sunday morning, spilling onto the 101 Freeway around 3:30 p.m. The roadway was then closed to traffic for several hours as California Highway Patrol officers worked to push...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Several Waymo vehicles have been torched by rioters in Los Angeles. Over half a million dollars in damages. From Brendan Gutenschwager 8:35 PM · Jun 8, 2025

In a dramatic escalation of tensions during recent protests in Los Angeles, several of Waymo’s autonomous vehicles were vandalised, with one being completely destroyed by fire. The incidents occurred over the weekend in downtown LA amidst demonstrations against federal immigration raids. The driverless Jaguar I-PACE vehicles, which have become an increasingly common sight on the streets of Los Angeles, found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Footage circulating on social media shows the stark image of a Waymo car engulfed in flames, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the sky. Other vehicles from the fleet...

There’s a battle brewing in Santa Monica with a fleet of unmanned, electric Waymo vehicles on one side, and exhausted, weary locals on the other. City officials, a judge and even police have been forced to intercede after residents who say the self-driving cars are a nuisance have banded together against the local 56-vehicle fleet. They’ve reached out to the city. They’ve called Waymo. Now, some are trying unconventional tactics. Using cones, cars and sometimes themselves, residents have taken to blocking the Waymos from entering their company-funded parking lot, so much so that the company has called the cops on...

(SAN FRANCISCO) – Teamsters are calling on the San Francisco Ethics Commission to investigate Waymo, the autonomous vehicle (AV) subsidiary of Google, after several of the company’s employees illegally failed to register as lobbyists for meetings with San Francisco International Airport (SFO) officials. Waymo was pressuring the officials for access so their driverless cars could “map” the airport. “These companies know that their products are unpopular, unsafe, and bad for working families, so they’re trying to steamroll policymakers and the public by putting AVs on the road before anyone has a chance to find out just how dangerous they are,”...

33-year-old Vincent Maurice Jones entered a Waymo Jaguar sedan that had just dropped off another passenger on Main Street, just north of 1st Street in Downtown Los Angeles. Officers say Jones got into the driver’s seat and tried to manipulate the system to put the vehicle into drive. A Waymo employee spoke with Jones through the car’s communication system and instructed him to leave the vehicle. When Jones didn’t follow the employee’s request, the representative contacted LAPD. Officers arrived on the scene a short time and placed Jones under arrest for attempted grand theft auto.

Last week, Joe Biden made history — and not in a good way — by granting clemency on an unprecedented scale, commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 individuals and issuing 39 pardons in a single day. This marks the largest one-day act of clemency in modern history, surpassing the previous record set by Barack Obama, who issued 330 commutations during his final days in office. ... at least three Democrat politicians .. including a disgraced former judge infamous for orchestrating a scheme that sent thousands of children to jail in exchange for kickbacks ... Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, one...

Six Obama administration officials used alias email addresses, including then-Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama. Whether connected to a government network or not, it is unusual for government officials to use an email alias. Not only is it peculiar, it raises questions about why Obama administration officials utilized aliases and whether government secrets were compromised. Below is a list of six U.S officials who used an email alias within the Obama administration: .....

The Arizona Department of Public Safety was called to investigate a suspicious package sent to the office of Arizona Senate Leader Karen Fann. An aide to the senator opened a letter with an unidentified white powder inside on Wednesday when authorities were called. This took place as the Senate’s audit of the 2020 election continues. Vote counting and inspections will continue next week.

The results of the 2020 Election are again not supported by evidence. This time the data reported by the Census Bureau conflicts with the election results. According to the US Census Bureau’s results from the 2020 Census, their are obvious discrepancies with the results of the 2020 Election. US Census data released last week called into question the official vote tally from the 2020 election. As part of the Census, the government collects data on citizens who self-report as having voted in presidential elections. The collected data shows an unusual anomaly in the reported results. According to the Census, the...

This installment names some of the most well-known criminals in recent time as Democrats and the history of the Democrats’ use of voter fraud starting with the election of 1876 . Chapter Seven: Democrat Criminals John Wayne Gacy was a Democrat and homosexual rapist and murderer. Gacy was perhaps the most revolting murderer in American history. He was convicted of committing dozens of homosexual rapes and murders and was eventually executed for his crimes. Gacy killed 33 males, most of them teenage boys. He used his position as a Democrat fund raiser to move in high Chicago Democrat circles. In...

KINGSTON, N.Y. -- Ismail Shabazz readily admits there was a time in his life when crime was the way. But today the 58-year-old grandfather who describes himself as a black nationalist says he had long ago found his way pointed down a righteous path by God. “God saved me from myself, from my criminal mentality,” Shabazz said recently. On Sept. 10, Shabazz along with Nina Dawson and Nicky Woerner, will compete in a primary for the Democratic nomination for Ward 4 alderman. The winner will have the party’s line on the Nov. 5 election ballot. Shabazz, who lives at 80...

Woke up this morning to find my Romney/Ryan yard sign stolen from my front yard. Checked on a house a few blocks down and theirs was gone too. Happened between midnight and 6 AM.

If Veronica became a citizen in September 2011, what was she doing donating to Colorado Democrats for the year preceding that? [...] A quick check of donation records in Colorado turns up at least four donations made before she was a legal citizen. Her voter registration is under the name Veronica Fleischer. When liberals put up someone to complain about Gessler's attempts to clean up the voter rolls, maybe they shouldn't push a person who has already violated election laws?

Yes, it’s another episode of “Name That Party,” where our contestant is a criminal Democrat in the news that somehow, mysteriously finds the Old Media conveniently forgetting to mention that he is, indeed, a Democrat. This time it’s former Starr County, Texas Sheriff Reymundo Guerra who was handed a five-year sentence for drug trafficking this week. Guerra is the second Starr County Sheriff in a row to go to jail for corruption. The Old Media dutifully reported this conviction, to be sure. It was reported that Guerra was up on harsher charges, how he had those reduced, it was also...

I'm sure that many have seen this list of republican sex offenders: link I worked up a list of democrat criminals off the top of my head, then added a few more through some research. Here's the list: Current office holders: Harry Reid: unidicted bribe taker Jack Murtha: unidicted bribe taker William Jefferson: has he been indicted yet? Hillary Clinton: unidicted bribe taker Ed Rendell: unidicted bribe solicitor Ted Kennedy: unindicted murderer Pat Kennedy: unindicted (censored) drunk Robert Menendez: unindicted bribe taker Sharpe James: unindicted you name it Alcee Hastings: impeached and convicted judge/representative Ray Nagin: say, Ray, what really...

Election Day 2002 is looming large, and with it will come all sorts of wild ass accusations of vote fraud, vote tampering and more. We need only look back two weeks at Florida's Democrat primaries to see what's waiting in the wings for November. The Democrats are pulling out all the stops to try and keep their stolen, ill-gotten majority in the U.S. Senate. They're also trying to seize control of the U.S. House in an attempt to stop President Bush's National Security agenda, and protecting our homeland. Let's be clear on what's at stake here: OUR FREEDOM. OUR LIBERTY....