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in santa ana the city moves on the whims of the police union and the city council majority they've paid for, not on the needs of the citizens voiceofoc.org/2025/10/sant...

same in so many cities

Santa Ana Launches Probe into Police Union Critic After Cops’ Complaints

Santa Ana officials are launching an investigation into complaints alleging Councilman Johnathan Hernandez harassed three cops.

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October 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM

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Article about ICE: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Wikipedia entry on Gestapo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo

Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. In some cases, the men wore plain clothes and refused to identify themselves. There was no way to confirm whether they were immigration agents or imposters. In six of the calls to Santa Ana police, residents described what they were seeing as kidnappings.
"He's bleeding," one caller said about a person he saw yanked from a car wash lot and beaten. "They dumped him into a white van. It doesn't say ICE."
One woman's voice shook as she asked,
"What kind of police go around without license plates?"

During a tense public meeting days later, Mayor Valerie Amezcua and the City Council asked their police chief whether there was anything they could do to rein in the federal agents — even if only to ban the use of masks. The answer was a resounding no. Plus, filing complaints with the Department of Homeland Security was likely to go nowhere because the office that once handled them had been dismantled. There was little chance of holding individual agents accountable for alleged abuses because, among other hurdles, there was no way to reliably learn their identities.

The Gestapo committed widespread atrocities during its existence. The power of the Gestapo was used to focus upon political opponents,
ideological dissenters (clergy and religious organisations), career criminals, the Sinti and Roma population, handicapped persons, homosexuals, and, above all, the Jews. 4]
Those arrested by the Gestapo were often held without judicial process, and political prisoners throughout Germany-and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree (German: Nacht und Nebel)-simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody. 5 Contrary to popular perception, the Gestapo was actually a relatively small organization with limited surveillance capability; still it proved extremely effective due to the willingness of ordinary Germans to report on fellow citizens. During World War II, the Gestapo played a key role in the Holocaust.
After the war ended, the Gestapo was declared a criminal organisation by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at the Nuremberg trials, and several top Gestapo members were
sentenced to death. (6]

October 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM

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Santa Ana mistrust

https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/13704/

Three councilmembers are raising concerns as to why the city of Santa Ana may be withholding records tied…

Santa Ana mistrust - California News Beep

Three councilmembers are raising concerns as to why the city of Santa Ana may be withholding records tied to its decision to quit a nearly $7 million state

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October 20, 2025 at 5:50 AM

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This is what integrity looks like.

Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · Jan 28

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

January 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM

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Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

January 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

On #MLKDay, we honor his legacy by choosing love over hate, justice over injustice, and hope over fear.

January 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM

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Acyn

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Maddow: Kristi Noem the nominee for Homeland Security next to Apple CEO Tim Cook. How is this happening? Why are people with tons of money up on the dais with cabinet nominees and family members?