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FBI ARRESTS CALIFORNIA BOOGALOO BOY ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES
by MICHAEL BOORMAN | December 3, 2020
The FBI arrested another member of the Boogaloo movement in California on Wednesday–this time, for involvement in child pornography. Robert Jesus Blancas, described as ‘a transient resident of the Bay Area’ was arrested on December 1st and arraigned in San Francisco. If convicted, he faces the possibility of life in prison. The FBI’s interest in […]
ELECTION WEEK IN LA: CELEBRATIONS, PROFILING & MASS ARRESTS
by OWEN GRADY | November 10, 2020
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 […]
QANON PROMOTER AND SNEAKER ENTHUSIAST RUNS INTERFERENCE IN EAST SAN DIEGO CONGRESSIONAL RACE
by JAMES STOUT | November 1, 2020
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 […]
ONLINE FASCISTS THOUGHT THIS BOOGALOO MARTYR WAS THEIR GUY–THEY MAY BE RIGHT
by HARVEY EISNER | ABNER HÄUGE | October 27, 2020
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 […]
FASCISTS FLOP IN SAN FRANCISCO, LOSE TEETH
by ABNER HÄUGE | October 20, 2020
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 […]
ANTI-FASCIST COUNTER PROTESTERS SHUT DOWN RACIST RALLY IN PACIFIC BEACH
by ROSE HENNA | October 1, 2020
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 […]
MOUNT SHASTA POLICE TORTURE MAN WITH ELECTRIC SHOCKS BEFORE ARRESTING HIM
by ABNER HÄUGE | September 30, 2020
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. “I didn’t do anything! I didn’t do anything!” Hansen cries as officers pin him to the ground and repeatedly shock him with […]
EYEWITNESS: MULTIPLE CAR ATTACKS AT MONDAY SACRAMENTO TRUMP EVENT
by ABNER HÄUGE | September 17, 2020
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 […]
ARMED GROUPS PATROLLING CORBETT, OREGON DON’T WANT TO BE CALLED MILITIAS
by LCRW STAFF | September 16, 2020
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 […]
SAN DIEGO MAYOR EMBRACES QANON-SPAWNED CONSPIRACY THEORY
by TOM MANN | September 14, 2020
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. Among myriad sources, QAnon draws on the […]