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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid
@lastreetcare.bsky.social
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An abolitionist collective organizing with the unhoused via mutual aid in Historic Filipinotown, Los Feliz, Echo Park, Atwater, Silver Lake, Rampart. Join us: tinyurl.com/joinlasc
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · May 29
On the campaign trail, @hugoforcd13.bsky.social seemed to understand that sweeps were wrong.
Now? Well, the cops and bulldozers speak for themselves.
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The LA Reporter @thelareporter.bsky.social · 1d
LAPD turns out in force to Westlake CARE+ operation: ‘We were raided, treated like criminals’

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 2h
The thing about working with cops, is, don’t fucking do it.

At best, you’re lining up your own attendees to get snatched and beaten. At worst, you’re lining up yourself to get scapegoated by the police.

Don’t fucking do it.
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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 3h
Reminder for those attending 50501 SoCal’s No Kings protest this Saturday. The organizers have a history of coordinating with LAPD pigs ahead of their parades. Here’s communication between the 50501 SoCal founders and LAPD regarding last April’s protest.
From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Brendon Yuen < Tuesday, March 25, 20254:06 PM BRIAN CORWIN EVAN MARTINEZ;CHRISTOPHER SUK;MICHAEL BOYLE;Joann Calderon (DOT Spcl Events);Gerardo Cervantes;Justin Rong:justin.m.kim@lacity.org;Tyler, John W@CHP;Velasquez, Steven P.;bwclinks@lasd.org Re: 50501 SoCal Unites ATTENTION: This email originated outside of LAPD. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I will be attending the meeting. I will have also asked a few other individuals in charge of planning to attend as well. Brendon On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM BRIAN CORWIN <35723 @lapd.online> wrote: Good morning, I sent out the invite for the meeting tomorrow for the event 50501 SoCal Unites scheduled on April 5, 2025. The meeting is over TEAMS and is set for 930am. If you are able to attend it please rsvp. If you have any questions please let me know. Thank you, Brian Corwin Sergeant I Special Events 35723 @lapd.online From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Brendon Yuen < Thursday, March 27, 2025 10:24 AM BRIAN CORWIN EVAN MARTINEZ; CHRISTOPHER SUK:MICHAEL BOYLE;pierre.riotoc@lacity.orgjjasmine.hy@lacity.org;bwclinks@lasd.org;Velasquez, Steven P.;Tyler, John W@CHP;emily@50501socal.org;Joann Calderon (DOT Spcl Events);Brenda Mariona;Gerardo Cervantesjustin.m.kim@lacity.org;Justin Rong;shawn.connolly@lacity.org Re: 50501 SoCal Unites ATTENTION: This email originated outside of LAPD. Do not click on links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I will be attending the meeting. Brendon On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM BRIAN CORWIN <35723@lapd.online> wrote: This is a follow-up meeting prior to the event on Saturday April 5, 2025. Microsoft Teams Need help? Join the meeting now Meeting ID: Passcode: Dial in by phone United States, Los Angeles Find a local number Phone conference ID: For organizers: Meeting options | Reset dial-in
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 3h
Ok, but he is still trying to deploy the Guard in Chicago and PDX over people in inflatable suits. We’ve seen his characterization of the protests differ from reality and yet, it’s not stopped him. This “don’t give him what he wants” line is tired.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7h
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 23h
The hypocrisy is unreal.
It's the responsibility of City Council members to protect all Angelenos, not just their campaign donors. Right now, Covid is ripping through the population of ppl experiencing homelessness. Sweeps only serve to displace ppl-not house them. We must end 41.18, SECZs, & sweeps. @LAHomeless has asked the city to stop doing sweeps, but some council offices refuse to stop. City Council members choose how to respond to encampments of ppl in their district. Spot cleaning provides ppl w/trash collection w/out displacement. End 41.18, SECZs #HouseKeys #CD1
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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 23h
This isn’t care.
This isn’t abolition.
This is enabling violent cops.
Eunisses Hernandez sold out her unhoused constituents.
Her team ordered a sweep, knowing it would bring known sexual predator cops to harass the encampment…just like their last sweep.
No housing.
No replacement tents.
No apology.
Hernandez staffer says he ordered the CARE+ sweep During the interaction with Ares last Thursday, Kris Rehl, an organizer with mutual aid group LA Street Care, questioned Ares about who scheduled the sweep. Ares confirmed he was the one responsible for scheduling CARE+ operations in Hernandez's office. Upon hearing that, several of the residents responded with surprise, with one seeking confirmation from Ares, asking, "You ordered this Eric?" and another person asking him, "Why?" Even though residents are usually allowed back after a CARE+ operation, which requires that people leave the area while a cleaning operation takes place, one resident, Claire (pseudonym), told The LA Reporter she did not believe that city officials are going to let them set back up where they had been. Members of the encampment at that location had submitted a letter to Hernandez's council office in May seeking trash pick-up, port-a-potties, brooms and cleaning supplies and needle disposal. They also demanded permanent housing and said CARE+ sweeps don't clean, but rather destroy their belongings. As of Sunday, residents had relocated across the street to Hugo Soto-Martinez's 13th District, Rehl told The LA Reporter.
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
Thread following up on our Thursday morning livestream of a sweep in LA City Council District 1, represented by Eunisses Hernandez. Here’s the live posted as a reel. www.instagram.com/reel/DPmH-Mn...
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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 23h
This encampment was slowly organizing, making demands of the city, cd1 of cm Henandez and team and the response was a a sweep with no offer of housing a couple weeks ago in which 2 LAPD officers were violent towards residents—I was also shoved by a cop by the name of Solorio during this prior sweep.
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The LA Reporter @thelareporter.bsky.social · 1d
LAPD turns out in force to Westlake CARE+ operation: ‘We were raided, treated like criminals’

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Jamie Biver @jamiebiver.bsky.social · 23h
This!
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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 23h
This isn’t care.
This isn’t abolition.
This is enabling violent cops.
Eunisses Hernandez sold out her unhoused constituents.
Her team ordered a sweep, knowing it would bring known sexual predator cops to harass the encampment…just like their last sweep.
No housing.
No replacement tents.
No apology.
Hernandez staffer says he ordered the CARE+ sweep During the interaction with Ares last Thursday, Kris Rehl, an organizer with mutual aid group LA Street Care, questioned Ares about who scheduled the sweep. Ares confirmed he was the one responsible for scheduling CARE+ operations in Hernandez's office. Upon hearing that, several of the residents responded with surprise, with one seeking confirmation from Ares, asking, "You ordered this Eric?" and another person asking him, "Why?" Even though residents are usually allowed back after a CARE+ operation, which requires that people leave the area while a cleaning operation takes place, one resident, Claire (pseudonym), told The LA Reporter she did not believe that city officials are going to let them set back up where they had been. Members of the encampment at that location had submitted a letter to Hernandez's council office in May seeking trash pick-up, port-a-potties, brooms and cleaning supplies and needle disposal. They also demanded permanent housing and said CARE+ sweeps don't clean, but rather destroy their belongings. As of Sunday, residents had relocated across the street to Hugo Soto-Martinez's 13th District, Rehl told The LA Reporter.
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 23h
The hypocrisy is unreal.
It's the responsibility of City Council members to protect all Angelenos, not just their campaign donors. Right now, Covid is ripping through the population of ppl experiencing homelessness. Sweeps only serve to displace ppl-not house them. We must end 41.18, SECZs, & sweeps. @LAHomeless has asked the city to stop doing sweeps, but some council offices refuse to stop. City Council members choose how to respond to encampments of ppl in their district. Spot cleaning provides ppl w/trash collection w/out displacement. End 41.18, SECZs #HouseKeys #CD1
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
Please see @reporterliz.bsky.social‘s reporting for more on this sweep. thelareporter.la/p/lapd-turns...
LAPD turns out in force to Westlake CARE+ operation: ‘We were raided, treated like criminals’
LA Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez’s constituents confronted her staffer, after Los Angeles Police Department officers showed up in large numbers right before a CARE+ encampment sweep that her office...
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
Everyone from the Mountain View Community is naturally shaken up but their resolve to continue fighting for housing continues.
Photograph of the corner of Mountain View and Beverly. LA Sanitation and heavy equipment are on the background. In the foreground is a hand painted sign that says “Where is our housing/jobs? Where is the money? We want housing NOW!”
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
This is not what care looks like. This is not what abolition looks like. This is what emboldening predatory cops looks like.
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
Even though the sweep that Eunisses ordered destroyed everyone’s shelter and belongings, her office has failed to provide services, shelter, housing, replacement tents, or even apology to their brutalized unhoused constituents.👈
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
Two cops parked on the block where the encampment used to be while others, including known sexual predator Officer Robert Solorio, drove up and down the block where the encampment relocated. The pigs vowed to continue harassing and displacing them.
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
Yesterday, NIMBYs driving by in cars, harassed people and threatened them with violence. One couple in a Lexus promised to return and set fire to the encampment.
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
Around midnight on Friday, cops raided the encampment AGAIN and chased everyone, including elderly and disabled people, off the block and across Beverly Blvd into Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez’s district.
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
On Friday, people from the auto shop behind the encampment violently chucked car bumpers and other debris at everyone from the encampment who returned.
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
Thursday morning, cops raided the Mountain View & Beverly encampment before a sweep Eunisses Hernandez’s office ordered. Cops arrested/cited everyone with 41.18, a law that criminalizes people for existing in public. The sweep destroyed every tent, but the cops weren’t done…
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 1d
Thread following up on our Thursday morning livestream of a sweep in LA City Council District 1, represented by Eunisses Hernandez. Here’s the live posted as a reel. www.instagram.com/reel/DPmH-Mn...
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 5d
Follow along on our Instagram this morning as we livestream a sweep in City Council District 1 www.instagram.com/lastreetcare
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 7d
Our friends Jonathan & Eddie have a puppy named Gizmo who was hit by a car that left the scene. Please consider donating toward his surgery costs! www.gofundme.com/f/pp49yr-hel...
Donate to Help Gizmo Heal After Hit-and-Run, organized by Edward Banks
Gizmo was hit by a hit-and-run driver by Dodger Stadium. He needs the money to get bett… Edward Banks needs your support for Help Gizmo Heal After Hit-and-Run
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 9d
The most vulnerable people in our society are under attack right now because that’s where you start when EVERYONE is going to be under attack and when Newsom arranges photo ops throwing out the tents of homeless people and spreads transphobic talking points he is doing the fascists’ work for them.
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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 12d
For all the talk about how important ending homelessness is, Housing sure is a relatively small bar… 🤔
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LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @controller.lacity.gov · 12d
"Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value" 🔎

The City of LA's Adopted Budget for FY2026 is now up on our website: controller.lacity.gov/budgets

See the bar chart to see where your tax dollars ($14,103,321,315) are budgeted to be spent! 💰
City of LA Budget Bar Chart for FY2026: $14,103,321,315 Department Total Budget Police ($3.3B) $3,334,843,027 Other Special Purpose Funds ($2.4B) $2,452,470,518 Fire ($1.4B) $1,396,693,759 Sanitation ($1.1B3) $1,121,999,501 Capital & Tech Improvements ($866M) $866,227,931 Wastewater Special Purpose Fund $479,457,124 Recreation and Park $419,825,192 Street Services $391,052,697 Transportation $369,817,004 Library $349,13,080 rop. A Local Transit Assist. Fund $312,258,198 Housing $301,936,599 City Attorney $292,799,228 Building and Safety $232,939,087 Engineering $197,743,486 Other Agencies $170,834,954 Unappropriated Balance $125,000,000 Bond Redemption and Interest $115,168,623 Mayor $108,740,199 City Planning $106,995,489 Finance $93,915,591 Street Lighting $91,482,560 Council $86,483,681 Contract Administration $71,698,880 Controller $66,880,423 City Administrative Officer $62,106,675 Community Investment for Families $55,494,011
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Elizabeth Chou @reporterliz.bsky.social · 21d
LA Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez said he would end sweeps, when he campaigned for office. Now, activists say he broke his promise.

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 21d
Before taking office, LA Councilmember @hugoforcd13.bsky.social helpled unhoused people during sweeps.
Now? He sweeps dozens of encampments monthly.

Hugo used to speak out against 41.18, LA’s law that criminalizes being unhoused. During Hugo’s 1st year in office, 41.18 arrests rose 522% in CD13.
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Elizabeth Chou @reporterliz.bsky.social · 21d
LA Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez said he would end sweeps, when he campaigned for office. Now, activists say he broke his promise.

Read more about that @thelareporter.bsky.social:

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