Crime

LAPD – POLICE VIOLENCE AT OCCUPY LA: M-17 (VIDEO)

March 18, 2012

POLICE VIOLENCE AT OCCUPY LA: M-17 Occupy LA’s action across the street from City Hall yesterday was an unassuming endeavor involving vegan chili, some free brochures, a boom box and a lot of hugs. The decidedly peaceful action attended by some 50 people commemorated the 6th anniversary of OWS. Early afternoon the LAPD showed up [...]

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Occupy LA: Scenes from the New Revolution // Part 4: The Eviction

January 26, 2012

Part-4 of the series, The Eviction takes you to the front line of the class American class war as Occupy LA is confronted by an extreme show of force by law enforcement as the second American Revolution played out at City Hall in Los Angeles. I spent 7 weeks in a tent at City Hall shooting a [...]

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Pavement Occupies LA – 11.30.2011

November 30, 2011

Despite the LPAD’s decidedly theatrical arrests of 300 people at Occupy LA last night that involved the bomb squad, arson unit and other specialized units with some 1,400 cops in the streets terrorizing some 2,000 peaceful citizens for expressing their First Amendment rights, the movement continues with an action against Bank of America at foreclosure [...]

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PAVEMENT: In a Glass House

August 15, 2011

I heard about TEAMS ll from a LAPD Commander when I was working on an LA Weekly cover story I did called Super Dope Cops. It focused on a skid row undercover narcotics detective, Rick Kellogg who committed suicide right after the photo shoot for the piece. TEAMS II is the software they LAPD uses to [...]

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PAVEMENT: The tattooer’s Apprentice

July 21, 2011

I met Sal Sanchez on my first LA Weekly cover story, Thugs on Film. The story was about a guy nammed Manny Jiminez. He had a gangster talent agency called Suspect Entertainment. Sal was one of the actors her represented. He got 8 years on a Texas warrant and resurfaced in LA after serving his [...]

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