Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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It's another Sunday morning on Montana Avenue, Santa Monica's premier upscale shopping street. In addition to church bells and the sounds of weekend bicyclists buying coffee at Peets, one can hear the soft sound of merchants sweeping up broken glass. Someone broke the front window glass at The Massage Place at 625 Montana Avenue early Sunday morning or perhaps late Saturday. The owner could be seen in the window Sunday morning, watching as an employee swept up broken glass. Sh...
9/10/23: Police are searching for a suspect who brandished a gun while robbing a person of an iPhone and watch. A 911 caller reported the incident at 1626 Wilshire Blvd, just after 6 pm PST. Reaction on Social Media was quick: "You can usually track the location of a iPhone. Should be easy to catch this criminal," one woman wrote on Facebook. "The great tragedy of our times is we KNOW how to fight crime and maintain law and order and we KNOW how to create thriving societies...
California Barnes & Noble 'sniffer' won't be charged for failure to register as sex offender after arrest: DA A Los Angeles man who was released from jail again despite a history of sex crimes and other offenses will not face failure to register as a sex offender charges, according to the district attorney's office. Calese Carron Crowder, 37, was arrested on Thursday for failing to register as a sex offender and was released on Friday. Earlier this week, he pleaded no contest...
August 10, 2023 - A new sign warning tourists and shoppers on the Santa Monica Promenade was erected today by the Santa Monica Coalition, a group of property and business owners dedicated to restoring law and order to the troubled city. "Santa Methica is Not Safe," reads the sign, pointing out the dominant drug of choice among the near-thousand homeless individuals who inhabit the public and some private spaces in the city. "Our city manager Supports the Needle & Meth Pipe...
August 9, 2023 - "Justice Reform" Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon announced yesterday a ten-year prison sentence for rap artist Tory Lanez for shooting another musical artist, Megan Thee Stallion in a 2020 incident in the Hollywood Hills. Tory Lanez's legal name is Daystar Peterson and Megan Thee Stallion's legal name is Megan Pete. Gascon has advanced a soft-on-criminal approach since taking office in December 2020. His theory is that long prison sentences...
In a viral video, a Sikh grocery store owner beats a man stealing his inventory with a stick. The owner was repeatedly told by a counter clerk and a grocery store robber that "there ain't nothing you can do," and that "ay, just let him go" as the man loaded his inventory into a trashcan on wheels. The Sikh man, identified as the owner, disagreed and takes out a stick to beat the robber. "South Asian business owners in Stockton bravely defend their livelihood against perpetual...
The LA County coroner has identified the body found in a 55 gallon barrel in Malibu lagoon on Monday. Javonnta Murphy, 32, was an aspiring musician from Sylmar with a social media presence. His friends posted on social media to express sorrow and dismay that someone so young, so seemingly harmless, had died, and in such a strange way as well. "One day, the true story will come out," one of them tweeted. The deceased body found inside the barrel at Malibu Lagoon was identified...
A suspect is in custody after a stabbing at the public bathrooms on the beach. The victim was said to be a 26 year old homeless man. He died the next morning at the hospital. Authorities have not yet released the name of the victim or the perpetrator, who will likely be charged with murder. Police did not know the relationship of the two men. Street People of Beverly Hills posted it to their Instagram account. Half a dozen Santa Monica police officers were seen on video...
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7/25/23: In San Francisco, they call it Tuesday. An unidentified naked woman shot at cars near the Bay Bridge toll plaza Tuesday afternoon, according to Video posted to Twitter. "More lawlessness and danger in the San Francisco Bay Area. Instagram user sent me the video," posted Asian Crime Report. Other users speculated that she must have been high on meth. As she leveled the pistol at cars, drivers pulled over. It's uncertain whether she was arrested or anyone was injured....
There seems to be an epidemic of screaming homeless people in and around Santa Monica. Some draw a connection to LA County Dept of Public Health's free needle and pipe distribution program. One homeless man in an alley behind block apartment buildings, screamed all night about a woman who had, well, apparently broken his heart. "We have had a mentally unstable woman in our neighborhood screaming her head off for weeks. I remember someone mentioned some sort of mental health...
Update 5:10 pm: SMPD tweeted: "The standoff in the 1200 block of Lincoln Boulevard has been resolved. Thank you for your patience as this individual was taken into custody without significant incident. Please wait for police and fire vehicles to leave before trying to enter the area.' July 9, 2023 - Santa Monica Police have barricaded Lincoln Boulevard and 9th Street between Arizona and Wilshire Boulevard because an individual has barricaded herself in her room at the...
Two teenage girls were shot during a beach party at Ocean Avenue and Barnard Way in Santa Monica, report NBC news and other local news affiliates. The incident took place Friday evening, 7/7/23. It was initially announced that police had a suspect in custody. The SMPD now says the suspect ran away from the party, and they are searching for him. Santa Monica Police said Saturday morning that the victims were two teenage girls, age 14 and 17. Both were shot in the legs while...
June 23, 2023 - Early this morning, John Alle, founding member of the Santa Monica Coalition, was at his property on the Third Street Promenade after a call from his security team. While there, he became aware another overdose had occurred in Palisades Park. The victim was found directly across from the Shore Hotel and Blue Plate Oysterette Restaurant. The Santa Monica Coalition is a group of Santa Monica residents, business and property owners concerned about safety and...
Courts, Rulings & Lawsuits Lady Gaga seeks dismissal of dog $500,000 reward lawsuit, claiming conspiracy fraud Lady Gaga is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a woman previously arrested and charged in connection with stealing two of her three French bulldogs in 2021. Jennifer McBride returned Lady Gaga's dogs in February 2021, two days after the dogs were stolen, and then expected reward money. Gaga, whose real name is Stefani J. Germanotta, tweeted that she would pay...
Santa Monica Fire responded to multiple reports of a structure fire in the 1000 block of Marine Street. The fire occurred on June 20th, 2023 just before 6:30 am PST. There were 2 patients with medical complaints, neither of whom required transport to a local hospital....
A suspect was taken into custody Thursday night around 7 pm, after throwing rocks at customers of Ralph's on Cloverfield and Olympic Blvd in Santa Monica. He was most likely arrested for Assualt with a deadly weapon (245 pc) & vandalism. The man was inside of the Ralph's Grocery Store before being asked to leave for an unknown reason, he then began throwing rocks with no one targeted, eventually smashing a vehicle's window which was occupied. One victim suffered cuts to his...
Two men who pleaded no contest in a hate crime attack on two Jewish men outside a Beverly Grove-area restaurant have avoided jail time. Samer Jayylusi, 37, and Xavier Pabon, 32, were ordered on Wednesday to complete 80 hours of counseling focusing on bias and cultural sensitivity along with an eight-hour program at the Museum of Tolerance. Superior Court Judge Laura Priver also sentenced them to two years of probation. The court does not condone or approve of this type of...
George Gascon--Gascón's office fails in lawyer-disqualification bid The Office of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón failed yesterday to persuade a judge to bar a pro bono attorney for victims from further connection with a habeas corpus proceeding. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George G. Lomeli determined at a hearing that Deputy District Attorney Shelan Y. Joseph, a "special advisor" to Gascón, made an inadequate showing that attorney Kathleen Cady of th...
June 6, 2023 - On Friday afternoon, three members of the Santa Monica Coalition and one journalist observed Los Angeles County-contracted workers hand out hypodermic needles, synthetic meth, and other alleged health aids to whoever was in the public park, including offering the kits to non-drug users who happened to be sitting in Reed Park. The Santa Monica Coalition, a group of local business owners and leaders who are concerned about humanitarian, public safety, and crime...
June 2, 2023 - According to Fox News, a report shows that Los Angeles County is handing out free pipes that can be used to smoke crack cocaine, methamphetamine and other opioids. Included in the kit with the pipes are also clean needs and "supplies" to avoid or reverse a drug overdose. Between 2020 and 2021, there were 1,500 homeless individuals who died of drug overdoses. More than half of them tested positive for having fentanyl in their systems. In recent years, the county...
April 21, 2023 - Officers of the Santa Monica Police Department reportedly declined to help a young woman who was threatened by an apparently homeless man while she was taking a tennis lesson at Reed Park. In an email sent by the girl's mother to the Santa Monica Tennis Collective, she described a man who approached the court fence and screamed obscenities at the girl. He reportedly told her to "get the fuck out of [his] park" and added, "don't think I won't rape you." He...
L.A. county police union blindsided by plan to 'depopulate' jails -- A sweeping proposal calling for depopulation and decarceration of the Los Angeles County jails will be considered Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors, drawing the ire of an organization representing police chiefs for 45 law enforcement agencies. The plan advanced by Supervisors Hilda Solis and Lindsey Horvath would declare a "humanitarian crisis" in the jails and advocate for or instruct several county...
A fire occurred in the exterior of an apartment building at 2231 20th street. The fire broke out at about 5 pm on Sunday, April 9, 2023. A witness across the street stated the he saw black smoke, and heavy flames. However, the fire appeared to have been contained to the outside of the building. The Fire Prevention Bureau (FPB) did force entry into one unit, in order to determine that the unit had not been immolated by the fire....
A suspect in last Sunday's shooting death of a man in Venice has turned himself in to the Los Angeles Police Department and he may be related to the victim, authorities announced this week. The shooting occurred around 6 p.m. on March 26 in the 400 block of Indiana Avenue. At the scene, "patrol officers found a man in his 50s who had been shot, and citizens were providing aid," according to the LAPD statement. Police officers "continued life saving measures" until paramedics...
