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ELECTION WEEK IN LA: CELEBRATIONS, PROFILING & MASS ARRESTS
- posted on Nov 10, 2020
  by OWEN GRADY
EDITOR'S NOTE : Owen Grady is a young journalist living in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. You can help us by paying him what you can at $velocinaptor on cash app.

On Tuesday, November 3rd, Los Angeles Police Department preemptively announced a citywide tactical alert. L.A Sheriff’s Department had done the same the previous Sunday. Both law enforcement agencies were preparing for possible unrest during the election. Black Lives Matter Los Angeles hosted a celebratory all-day election viewing party which was interrupted when LAPD stormed in and violently apprehended 6 people for wearing all black.

On Election Day, BLM LA hosted a ‘Marathon Party At the Polls’ at the Staples Center. Organizers of the event arrived at six a.m.; setting up a stage, refreshment tables, canopies, and a television. The mood was celebratory and energized. There had been months of ‘Get out to Vote’ and ‘March to the Polls’ rallies which resulted in hundreds of voters unifying to drop off mail-in ballots together. During the day, the group of about fifty danced and sang, while others voted in-person a few hundred feet away at the polling location. Los Angeles Police Department preemptively declared a tactical alert for election night and had every officer available.
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QANON PROMOTER AND SNEAKER ENTHUSIAST RUNS INTERFERENCE IN EAST SAN DIEGO CONGRESSIONAL RACE
- posted on Nov 1, 2020
  by JAMES STOUT
- - articles
EDITOR'S NOTE : James Stout is a San Diego-based journalist. LCRW is trying to pay him $300 for his work. You can donate to him on cash app at $jamesstout and venmo at @james-stout-5.

Reddit–like much of the phenomenon of social media–really is a window into other people’s souls.

On Sunday the 25th of October, a post appeared on the r/ElCajon subreddit. The post bumped a person requesting a threesome–with Snapchat collateral–and a self-described “nobody” who wanted to “hold a press conference…possibly be on the news, just because if my words are heard they might calm the masses.”

The post, courtesy of user LaCroixorDie, shared a meme that suggested that Darrell Issa, Republican candidate for California’s 50th district, in which the southern California city of El Cajon is located, was an “andrenochrome pimp” and that voters should, instead, write in local White Aryan Resistance and Defend East County leader Justin Haskins.
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ONLINE FASCISTS THOUGHT THIS BOOGALOO MARTYR WAS THEIR GUY–THEY MAY BE RIGHT
- posted on Oct 27, 2020
  by HARVEY EISNER & ABNER HÄUGE
Facts surrounding the March 12th killing of Duncan Socrates Lemp by Montgomery County Police Department’s SWAT team are scarce. The police have their version of events. They claim Lemp was plotting violence, had illegal weapons, had a booby-trapped shotgun shell outside his room waiting for the cops and met them with a rifle in his hands. His family said his weapons were legal and he was murdered in bed sleeping next to his girlfriend. Police, for their part, still haven’t released bodycam footage.
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FASCISTS FLOP IN SAN FRANCISCO, LOSE TEETH
- posted on Oct 20, 2020
  by ABNER HÄUGE
Saturday about 20 fascists gathered in San Francisco under the pretext of complaining about their accounts being banned from social media websites like Twitter. Philip Anderson, a MAGA influencer and self-professed member of the Proud Boys who previously assaulted a friend of LCRW’s editorial board in July in Portland, organized the event–poorly. Most of the event’s speakers pulled out beforehand, including Proud Boys leaders Enrique Tarrio and Joe Biggs. Others like Ashton Whitty, a former correspondent for InfoWars and the white nationalist website The Red Elephants, and QAnon conspiracy cult promoter “QAnon Obi-Wan” said they weren’t even reached out to before being put on the bill.
ANTI-FASCIST COUNTER PROTESTERS SHUT DOWN RACIST RALLY IN PACIFIC BEACH
- posted on Oct 1, 2020
  by ROSE HENNA
EDITOR'S NOTE : Rose Henna is San Diego-based journalist focused on protest coverage. You can follow her work on Twitter here.

San Diego has a history of far-right figureheads and political groups from Roger Ogden and his white nationalist website to the Justin Haskin’s Defend East County group. Recently a new white nationalist group in San Diego, American Coalition Party, gained a following and growing online presence. The group appears to promote an America First and White Nationalist Agenda by appealing to zealous patriotism.

Damien Russell the leader of the American Coalition Party became known in right wing circles after an act of vandalism.

“I found out about the “patriot march” on twitter when someone warned how their leader Damian Russell has previously destroyed George Floyd memorials in North Park and left white nationalist poster/stickers in the area,” a local antifascist activist wo wished to remain anonymous told LCRW.
MOUNT SHASTA POLICE TORTURE MAN WITH ELECTRIC SHOCKS BEFORE ARRESTING HIM
- posted on Sep 30, 2020
  by ABNER HÄUGE
Video from Monday night shows an unhoused man who later identified himself as Trevor Hanson on the ground and wailing in pain as two Mt. Shasta police officers repeatedly shock him a taser.
EYEWITNESS: MULTIPLE CAR ATTACKS AT MONDAY SACRAMENTO TRUMP EVENT
- posted on Sep 17, 2020
  by ABNER HÄUGE
On Monday, Trump came to Sacramento in between campaign events to be briefed on the massive wildfires happening across the West Coast and hold a press conference. His supporters and counter-protestors both showed up outside Sacramento McClellan Airport where he landed. At least Three civilian drivers and one highway patrolman used their vehicles to attack anti-racist counter-protestors. At least two people left in ambulances.
ARMED GROUPS PATROLLING CORBETT, OREGON DON'T WANT TO BE CALLED MILITIAS
- posted on Sep 16, 2020
  by ROSIE G. RIDDLE
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Rosie Riddle is a Portland-based journalist. You can support her work at https://cash.app/$BeardLadyJournalism and @BeardedLadyJournalism on Venmo. You can follow her on Twitter at @PDXRosieRiddle.

The cover photo was originally by Daniel V. You can support him at moneyyy.me/$danielvmedia. You can support him at @danielvmedia on Twitter.

On Sunday I arrived in Corbett, Oregon at around 1:37 in the afternoon. I was determined to either disprove the rumors or find evidence of armed militia forming checkpoints, roadblocks, or patrolling the area. What I found instead, early in the afternoon still, was what looked like a “typical American family” pulled over to the side of the road with their emergency blinkers on.
SAN DIEGO MAYOR EMBRACES QANON-SPAWNED CONSPIRACY THEORY
- posted on Sep 14, 2020
  by Tom Mann
- - articles
EDITOR'S NOTE : Tom Mann is a San Diego-based journalist. LCRW is trying to pay him $300 for his work. You can donate to him on cash app at $ib161. San Diego’s Republican Mayor, Kevin Faulconer, appears to have embraced the QAnon conspiracy cult. According to an Instagram post (archive) on Sunday 13 September, Faulconer believes that California Governor Gavin Newsom recently legalized paedophilia. This post, based on a basic misunderstanding of California SB145, reiterated several QAnon-aligned conspiracies.
PROUD BOYS RALLY BEHIND RELIGIOUS BIGOTS TO INTIMIDATE MODESTO LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY
- posted on Sep 14, 2020
  by SIERRA FOOTHILLS STUMP & LCRW STAFF
EDITOR'S NOTE : This story was originally published by the Sierra Foothills Stump. You can read the original here and support the Stump on Patreon here.

Last year, Don James Grundmann, a religious bigot with ties to the Proud Boys and founder of the National Straight Pride Coalition, tried to hold a “Straight Pride Parade” in Modesto, CA. Grundmann’s intent was to hijack the “Straight Pride” branding of a Boston-based fascist group called Resist Marxism, who got national attention for the stunt. To capitalize off the Boston event, Grundmann wanted to hold his event a week before Resist Marxism’s. At the first Straight Pride Event in Modesto last year, the National Straight Pride Coalition struggled with PR, denied permits due to lack of insurance, and then the day of the event a handful of bigots got chased out of a barn they rented for the event by the owners, and got shouted down by a hundred or more antifascists, and liberals from the Modesto Pride Center.

This year, it was a rough one.

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