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  • Victims of LA County sheriff training facility explosion ID’d as 3 deputies with combined 74 years on the job

    07/19/2025 6:31:33 AM PDT · by libstripper · 25 replies
    NH Post ^ | July 18, 2025 | Emily Crane, David Propper, Shane Galvin
    Three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies were killed in a blast at a compound that houses the agency’s arson and explosive unit on Friday morning. The explosion at the Biscailuz Center Academy Training facility in East Los Angeles resulted in the department’s worst loss of life in a single event since 1857. The officers were identified as Detective Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Detective Victor Lemus and Detective William Osborn, all of whom were assigned to the Special Enforcement Bureau’s Arson Explosives Detail. * * * Aerial footage from local news helicopters showed the explosion happened in a parking lot where patrol cars...
  • DEVELOPING: Explosion at Sheriff Training Facility in Los Angeles Leaves Three Dead

    07/18/2025 9:03:48 AM PDT · by bitt · 23 replies
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Jul. 18, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    There was a deadly explosion at a Sheriff training facility in East Los Angeles on Friday morning. At least three Sheriff’s Deputies were killed, according to Fox News. No other details about the explosion were immediately available. BREAKING: Our LA @FoxNews producer @AlexandriaHrndz is told by multiple law enforcement sources that three people are dead after an explosion at a LA County Sheriff Department’s training facility in East LA this morning. Happened at the Biscailuz training center. — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 18, 2025 The FBI is on scene. The explosion appears to be an accident. The three deaths are...
  • 3 deputies confirmed dead in explosion at East L.A. sheriff’s training center

    07/18/2025 8:39:10 AM PDT · by DCBryan1 · 21 replies
    KTLA ^ | Posted: Jul 18, 2025 / 08:23 AM PDT Updated: Jul 18, 2025 / 08:35 AM PDT | by: Cameron Kiszla
    An explosion in East Los Angeles Friday morning that killed at least three people reportedly involved the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, according to preliminary reports. The blast occurred at 1060 N. Eastern Ave. at about 7:30 a.m., the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
  • Beloved LA restaurant that invented iconic meal forced to close after 117 years due to rampant crime

    07/08/2025 1:35:29 PM PDT · by vespa300 · 44 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 07/08/2025 | Lauren Taylor
    A beloved restaurant in California, that claims the invention of an iconic Los Angeles staple, has announced it will close its doors for good after 117 years as rampant crime continues to wreck havoc in LA. Cole's French Dip, inventor of the French Dip Sandwich, announced it will permanently close on August 3 due to the rampant crime in the area that has been felt by businesses throughout LA. 'After exhaustive deliberation and numerous attempts at last ditch efforts, our beloved Los Angeles institution, Cole's, Originators of the French Dip, has made the difficult decision to close its doors,' a...
  • Massive federal immigration enforcement operation is underway in the MacArthur Park area of LA

    07/07/2025 12:42:26 PM PDT · by rxsid · 70 replies
    X ^ | 07.07.2025 | Bill Melugin
    BREAKING: We are with hundreds of federal agents and military as a massive federal immigration enforcement operation is underway in the MacArthur Park area of the sanctuary city of Los Angeles, an area with heavy MS-13 influence. Mayor Bass has demanded raids stop, Feds respond with one of the largest yet, including Border Patrol agents on horseback. Protesters already showing up.pic.twitter.com/g4osPOL6mr— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 7, 2025
  • ICE agents blasted for arresting migrants at LA car wash on July 4

    07/06/2025 7:07:44 PM PDT · by Morgana · 93 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | July 6, 2025 | Stephen M. Lepore
    Liberal Los Angeles residents were outraged as ICE agents with bulletproof vests spent the Fourth of July holiday continuing to carry out Donald Trump's mass deportation promise. One video showed a raid at a West Hollywood car wash, showing a man who alleged to have been in the country for 30 years. His son, who had been alerted to the raid, was left asking: 'Why? My dad is not a criminal. He was working at a car wash on 4th of July.' 'My dad came to work today on the Fourth of July. He loves his country. We've been here...
  • CBP uncovers Iranian human smuggling hub in LA: officials

    06/29/2025 6:18:11 AM PDT · by CFW · 15 replies
    Post Millennial ^ | 6/28/25 | Hayden Cunningham
    A home in Los Angeles was an Iranian human smuggling hub, according to Customs and Border Patrol after two individuals were arrested Friday afternoon in a Los Angeles County neighborhood. The home had previously been the site of the arrest of seven Iranian nationals earlier this week, some of whom were reportedly flagged on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist. Federal agents with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were seen executing a warrant at a residence in North Hills around 3 pm on Friday, marking the second law enforcement action at the property this week. CBP said that the arrests were...
  • Los Angeles residents on edge as ‘absolutely terrifying’ violent squatters terrorize ritzy neighborhood: ‘On hold with our lives’

    06/26/2025 7:12:21 PM PDT · by vespa300 · 108 replies
    New York Post ^ | 06/26/2025 | Caitlin McCormack
    Squatters have been wreaking havoc in parts of Los Angeles, setting fires and even carrying out a random attack in a troubling rash of violence that has left residents frightened. The chaos first cropped up in Beverly Grove after an abandoned apartment complex was recently taken over by a group of vagrants. “It’s been absolutely terrifying. We are on hold with our lives right now until this is resolved,” Anita Cavallo, a woman who lives in the Beverly Grove area, told ABC7.
  • After 3 Long Years, the Feds Reveal Who Pulled Off the Largest Jewelry Heist in U.S. History

    06/20/2025 5:32:09 PM PDT · by CFW · 26 replies
    PJMedia ^ | 6/20/25 | Victoria Taft
    Federal prosecutors and law enforcement believe they've solved the biggest jewelry heist in U.S. history. In the middle of the night, on July 11, 2022, thieves broke into the trailer of a Brinks big rig parked at a truck stop on the stretch of I-5 freeway known as The Grapevine. The Grapevine is a 40-mile stretch of road that is the bane of every trucker's trip between the Central Valley, over the Tehachapi Mountains, and down again into the Los Angeles County basin. The worst part of it is the six-mile-long, 6% grade in which truckers travel a snail's pace,...
  • Mayor Karen Bass admits it: Los Angeles would shrivel without its illegals

    06/19/2025 8:56:54 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 51 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 06/19/2025 | Monica Showalter
    Thinking she could get President Trump's attention by pulling out big money numbers on illegal immigration , Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass whipped them out:There are entire sectors of the economy in Los Angeles that depend on immigrant labor. This administration is waging a war against our own economy. pic.twitter.com/9G8YXV8i5P — Mayor Karen Bass (@MayorOfLA) June 16, 2025It was not the slam dunk she thought it was. It was part of an emerging Democrat "narrative," though:It came as this study came out, according to KTLA:The mass deportation of California’s undocumented residents could slash $275 billion from the state’s economy, eliminate...
  • L.A. street life 'paralyzed' as ICE raids keep shoppers away, close businesses

    06/18/2025 5:09:22 PM PDT · by jeannineinsd · 44 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 6/18/2025 | Salvador Hernandez, Grace Toohey
    With federal immigration sweeps showing no signs of slowing across Southern California, there is growing concern from top officials, spiritual leaders and business owners that a climate of fear was sending more people underground and changing the rhythm of city life. Once-bustling immigrant hubs, including MacArthur Park, the Garment District, downtown's produce market and areas of the Eastside have seen a noticeable reduction in foot traffic over the last week, with some businesses forced to close as a result. It comes as social media is rife with videos of people spotting immigration agents at shopping centers, markets and neighborhood streets,...
  • Immigrant protests, unrest in L.A. reverberate in Mexico

    06/16/2025 10:55:54 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | June 16, 2025 3 AM PT | Patrick J. McDonnell
    MEXICO CITY — The action may be on the streets of Los Angeles, but fallout from the immigrant protests is roiling politics in Mexico at a delicate moment — days before Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is expected to meet President Trump in their much-anticipated inaugural face-to-face encounter.Sheinbaum has been on the defensive since Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — at an Oval Office event in Trump’s presence — accused the Mexican president on Tuesday of “encouraging violent protests.” While Sheinbaum has assailed the U.S. immigration raids and backed immigrants’ rights to protest, there is no public record of her ever...
  • Trump to flood big cities like LA and NYC with ICE agents in ‘single largest Mass Deportation Program’ in history

    06/16/2025 12:51:48 AM PDT · by Libloather · 50 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/15/25 | Caitlin McCormack
    President Trump announced plans to flood Democrat-run cities, namely New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, with new, larger waves of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to bring about the “single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” Trump highlighted the sweeping change targeting the majority-Democrat cities on Truth Social Sunday night as he praised ICE agents for their “incredible strength, determination, and courage.” “In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” Trump wrote. “These,...
  • You Won't Believe LA Mayor Karen Bass' Father's Day Message

    06/15/2025 2:52:21 PM PDT · by lightman · 25 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 15 June A.D. 2025 | Sarah Arnold
    Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass used Father’s Day not to honor the importance of fatherhood or the role of strong families, but to push a political message about illegal immigration. Instead of acknowledging the responsibility that comes with breaking U.S. law, Bass focused her message on sympathy for children whose fathers were deported for being in the country illegally. Her statement ignored the legal consequences of entering or remaining in the U.S. unlawfully and painted deportation as an unjust act rather than a necessary part of enforcing immigration law. “This morning, I’m thinking about the children in Los Angeles...
  • Mexico president calls for US immigration forces to spare fans at LA soccer game

    06/15/2025 1:57:54 AM PDT · by Libloather · 52 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/13/25 | Jackson Thompson
    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a message to U.S. immigration forces in Los Angeles, asking for grace for fans at the Mexico vs. Dominican Republic Gold Cup soccer game at SoFi Stadium Saturday. "We don't believe that at any soccer match there will be any [immigration] action ... we call for none to be taken by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement," Sheinbaum said in a Friday press conference. "Mexico will always promote peace," she added. A now-deleted post to social media post by U.S. Customs and Border Protection stated a promise to be "suited and booted" at the first round...
  • Neville Singham is a proud socialist who made almost $1 billion in America then fled to China

    06/13/2025 5:35:10 PM PDT · by george76 · 42 replies
    X ^ | Jun 13, 2025 | DC_Draino
    Neville Singham is a proud socialist who made almost $1 billion in America then fled to China Now he’s married to the Code Pink activist leader Jodie Evans and they fund LA riot groups while living in communist Shanghai Unfortunately for Neville, he’s getting called in to testify under oath about his funding of violent riots in America Can’t hide anymore!
  • X: Tom Homan - ICE Raids Uncovered Money Laundering Scheme by Cartels

    06/12/2025 6:23:46 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 18 replies
    Holee Shizzles… ‼️ The real reason behind the LA riots.. Tom Homan revealed the recent warehouse ICE RAID that set the whole thing off, was the target of a multi-National illegal money laundering scheme linked to the Mexican and the Colombian cartels. That location, is one of many, he says, and they’re laundering hundreds of millions of dollars to fund their cartel activities. The Trump administration is going after their money… that’s why they’re rioting!
  • CNN’s Stelter: ‘Days-Old’ L.A. Images Being Replayed ‘Same Way’ Some ‘Talk About 2020 As If That Happened Just Last Week’

    06/12/2025 5:30:19 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 10 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/12/2025 | Ian Hanchett
    CNN’s Stelter: ‘Days-Old’ L.A. Images Being Replayed ‘Same Way’ Some ‘Talk About 2020 As If That Happened Just Last Week’ Video Source: CNN Ian Hanchett12 Jun 202533 1:53 On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” CNN Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter said that there’s a “constant replaying of old images, days-old images” from Los Angeles “in the same way that some people like to talk about 2020 as if that happened just last week.” Host Laura Coates asked, “Brian, L.A. leaders, politicians, they are very angry with the way in which they believe the media is portraying what’s happening...
  • ICE protests live updates: Over 200 arrested in L.A.; National Guard deployed in Texas as rallies continue nationwide [6-11-25]

    06/11/2025 8:14:48 PM PDT · by CFW · 29 replies
    NBC ^ | 6/11/25 | staff
    [snip] What started as a peaceful rally and march suddenly turned violent near Los Angeles’ City Hall as police declared an unlawful assembly. Officers were seen using less-lethal munitions on a crowd of people, while officers on horseback pushed into demonstrators. People in the crowd screamed “peaceful protest” but were ultimately forced to run into neighboring Grand Park. Officers were seen wielding batons on some protesters as they retreated. The dramatic turn of events occurred an hour and a half before the city’s curfew was set to go into effect. LAPD said on X that during a march northbound on...
  • Active Marine Defies Orders and Joins Protests

    06/11/2025 4:17:12 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 79 replies
    Active Marine Defies Trump’s LA Deployment, Joins Dallas Anti-ICE Protest