SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL

• ANTI-TRANS ACTIVIST WENT FROM “L.A. DEE DA” to STOKING HATE

  November 4, 2022 | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL

  For the last several years, former LA Weekly contributor Belissa Cohen has gone mostly unnoticed as an anti-trans voice in Los Angeles.  Cohen has appeared at anti-trans protests undercover then used footage she took to appear on anti-trans outlets. She’s a spokesperson for “LGB Fight Back.” The organization regularly spreads baseless conspiracy theories that trans […]

• POLICE DID LITTLE WHILE NAZI LIVESTREAMERS HARASSED WEHO, HOLLYWOOD, BEVERLY HILLS

  May 31, 2022 | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL

  On Saturday, May 21st an anti-Semitic hate group called the “Goyim Defense League” drove a U-Haul truck by stunned, angry and occasionally sympathetic onlookers in Hollywood, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. The entire event was live streamed on leader John Minadeo’s anti-Semitic video hosting website Goyim TV. While much of the hate speech live-streamed was […]

• ARMED ANTI-ABORTION RALLYGOERS IN RIVERSIDE SQUIRTED WITH PENIS-SHAPED WATER BOTTLE

  May 26, 2022 | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL

  On May 21st, about 50 anti-abortion protesters gathered at Shamel Park in Riverside, California for a “Babies Lives Matter” march to a nearby Planned Parenthood facility—the Riverside Family Planning Center. One hour earlier, a group of about 30 pro-abortion protesters gathered to oppose them. Though there was no physical violence, there were multiple threats of […]

• PLANNED PARENTHOOD RALLY DRAWS OUT L.A. AREA’S FAR-RIGHT REGULARS

  May 16, 2022 | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL

  Just days after a Politico report revealed that the U.S. Supreme Court was preparing to strike down Roe v. Wade, a right-wing group planned to protest a Planned Parenthood clinic in Highland Park, California. The protest took place May 7th. Among the attendees was a man who was taken into Federal custody after threatening to […]

• A LOOK BEHIND THE RECENT NEO-NAZI BANNER FLOP IN COSTA MESA

  May 4, 2022 | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL

  A group of seven people began unfurling two Neo-Nazi banners above the 55 freeway in Costa Mesa, California on April 24th. In less time than it took to put them up, the group began to take the banners down after community members and reporters confronted them. Costa Mesa Police arrived shortly after, offering to assist […]

• BRUCE BOYER: HOW A LITIGIOUS CONSPIRACY THEORIST SPENT DECADES BRUTE-FORCING HIS WAY INTO SOCAL POLITICS

  January 20, 2022 | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL

  Public comment at city council meetings throughout Ventura County often feature a man with a cowboy hat who introduces himself with “good evening! My name is Bruce Boyer. I’m candidate for Sheriff here in Ventura County…” Boyer, often dressed with a Gadsden flag t-shirt underneath a black blazer and a black Stetson, mouths off about […]

• CAPITOL RIOT REUNION IN BEVERLY HILLS POORLY ATTENDED, FAILED COUP SUPPORTERS MENACE JOURNALISTS

  January 8, 2022 | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL

  On the first anniversary of the Capitol Riot of 2021, a group of about 40 pro-Trump rally-goers went to Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills to speak glowingly of the day in Washington where two pipe bombs were placed and nearly 150 officers and uncounted others were injured in clashes with a crowd that breached […]

• EYEWITNESSES & VICTIM DESCRIBE SHOOTING & PROUD BOY VIOLENCE IN PORTLAND

  August 27, 2021 | ABNER HÄUGE | SEAN BECKNER-CARMITCHEL

  All indications were that antifascists already won before the day even started. Richard, a beloved Portland local who shows up to nearly every damn protest, sat down next to me. I asked him how he’s been and he sat down on the bench next to me and started explaining, out of the blue, something I […]