Matt Johnson is the president of the LA Police Commission. The LAPD is the most murderous policing entity in the US three years running. Trevor Gerard is a BLM-LA member who became visable a few months back and has subsequently been targeted by Johnson in a flagarent abuse of power… but it looks like we’ll have to wait for Matt to get back from vacation to hear what’s on his mind. Here’s Jason McGahan‘s piece in the LA Weekly >> https://goo.gl/5XQrsC Trevor Gerard at BLM-LA’s #DeColonizeLACityHall Action_2016      ...

#DeColonizeLACityHall, a direct political action as occupation by Black Lives Matter-LA (BLMLA), is in it’s 38th consecutive day. Tents went up on July 12th in response to the LA Police Commission announcement that the 2015 police killing of Redel Jones was deemed in policy. Since then it’s been the biggest, most undereported historic local event since Occupy LA took the City Hall grounds for 3 months in 2011.

I was at the Police Commision in Los Angeles on July 12th just before the action dubbed “Decolonize LA City Hall” began on Tuesday, July 12.

Janelle Monáe’s anthemic, Hell You Talmbout tests the limits of a small Bluetooth speaker; ricochets off the hard surfaces of downtown as sidewalk sleepers emerge from a cluster of fifteen tents on the plaza at City Hall East in Los Angeles at 6:00 am. A few feet away a big red bus hacks up a dark plume that settles on a large yellow banner propped up near the curb spelling “Say Her Name” in big red letters. Another sign, “Fire Chief Beck” leans against a traffic signal, staring blankly at the Mayor’s office just across the street. The Black Lives Matter (BLMLA) encampment is exactly what you’d expect to find at the bleeding edge of the Black Liberation Movement; a tightly organized, clean, open but guarded, kid friendly, abundant, creative, gay-trans-ally friendly, loving, matriarchal space.   BLMLA Camp, LA City Hall_8/16   Melina Abdullah packs a few essentials into a bag near the food table as she begins her day. A founding, core member of BLMLA, the mother of three, tenured professor and Pan-African Studies department chair at Cal State, Los Angeles is a guiding presence here. A practiced communicator, she breaks from the scrip to consider what they’ve created at City Hall; “I don’t think we’d really articulated it before, but it’s a really beautiful loving space. We’re building the community we want to live in,” she says and excuses herself to help unload a car that has pulled up to drop off supplies. The spontaneous action dubbed “Decolonize LA City Hall” began on Tuesday, July 12, just after the Los Angeles Police Commission announced that the 2015 police killing of a black woman named Redel Jones was deemed in policy. Shortly after tents went up at City Hall a block away from...

#‎DeColonizeLACityHall‬ is an ongoing direct action by Black Lives Matter-LA at City Hall East in downtown Los Angeles now in it’s 23rd day. The spontaneous action began on Tuesday, July 12, just after the Los Angeles Police Commission announced that the 2015 police killing of a black woman named Redel Jones was deemed in policy. Tents are up now at City Hall half a block away from LAPD headquarters, a stone’s thrown from skid row, just down the street and around the corner from County Jail. Today is day 23 of #DecolonizeLACityHall. (VIDEO) Less hate group, more love vortex, Decolonize LA City Hall posts a daily schedule on a dry erase board near a tidy, well stocked food tent that includes meditation, community building workshops, meals, poetry, dance, yoga, bodywork and music and that’s just during the day light hours. FB Twitter Instagram ...