Cerise Castle

Excellent reporting by @cerisecastle.bsky.social here. Reminded of how in 2011 Egyptian police explicitly targeted protesters' eyes during the revolution, blinding or partially blinding dozens.

These weapons maim & shouldn't be on our streets. They cause avoidable/grave human harm & lead to lawsuits that impoverish us: "[LAPD] officers fired at least 2,587 such rounds at protesters between June 6, 2025, and March 28, 2026, according to use-of-force reports published by the department."

In LA, police and federal agents are shooting out the eyes of people protesting ICE. I detailed the accounts of 5 young men who lost their eyes after protesting for @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/he-went-to-d...

Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

The LA Co. Board of Supervisors delayed voting on a motion that would force the Sheriff's Dept to name deputy gangs within its ranks on Tuesday. The move came in front of about 30 uniformed personnel who filled the meeting's gallery. www.patreon.com/lasdgangs/po...

In an interview with Capital & Main, author Naomi Klein describes tech oligarchs preparing for an apocalyptic end to life on Earth, fueled by the carbon emissions generated by the companies they own.

Think about all the work regular & impacted folks have to do just to build bare bones transparency & accountability into our local criminal systems. We shouldn’t need a motion to get the Sheriff & Co. to do the bare minimum to root out deputy gangs. They should already be doing it!

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved about $3 million in settlements related to the Sheriff's Department in August of 2026. I broke down how the funds paid out: a lieutenant DUI, a deputy accused of s*xual abuse, and more. www.youtube.com/shorts/ai8ub...

I joined @diprimaradio.bsky.social to break down LAPD’s report on the 2 weeks of protests against ICE in June 2025. LAPD revealed they are designating people who wear protective equipment as hostile actors & using undercover cops to infiltrate protests. youtube.com/shorts/YLTj9...

AI is just the tech version of scam culture

The LA County Supervisors approved just under $3m in settlements stemming from LASD personnel in August. Incidents include a lieutenant driving drunk and a deputy sexually exploiting a disabled woman. New from me, free on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/lasdgangs/po...

23 years ago this week: Deondre Brunston was gunned down by LA County Sheriff's deputies after he threw a sandal at a police dog. My additional review of this case revealed that some of the deputies behind Deondre's death are part of a deputy gang. youtu.be/u43EnKqmm3o

You cannot drive through any hood in LA County without being captured by an ALPR camera.

Join us this Sunday for the event ‘Remembering Ruben Salazar and Maintaining Journalistic Integrity’ organized by People’s Cafe LA Featuring speakers: @bencamach0.bsky.social and @abemarquez.bsky.social from The Southlander and independent journalist @cerisecastle.bsky.social

LA County is a perfect example of the role govt. attorneys play in frustrating accountability& transparency efforts. The Sheriff’s Dept. has bred a vicious constellation of deputy gangs that have murdered + hurt residents in jails and on the street. Everybody knows they exist.

#BREAKING: LA Supervisor Holly Mitchell has written a motion directing the LA County Sheriff's Dept to identify deputy gangs within its ranks. If passed, the names of the gangs could be made public as soon as next year. www.patreon.com/lasdgangs/po...

New from me on Patreon: the LA County Sheriff's Department has introduced a new policy for interacting with news media, including a policy for how to investigate reporters. www.patreon.com/lasdgangs/po...

New from me: Deputies who are part of the Industry Indians deputy gang beat up Joseph Perez in 2020. Months later, as he sat in jail, those same deputies assaulted a group of teens at a bowling alley. Joseph’s mother is asking Sheriff Luna to fire them. youtu.be/ZD1II9ckZCc?...

Same over here. @groundgamela.bsky.social is trying to claim they wrote my deputy gang series, and fighting that bullshit is taking everything I got.

And that goes for the politicians who also lock arms with GGLA. Some of them spoke out when the LA city attorney sued me but when the call came from inside the house— crickets!

I would be reporting more but @groundgamela.bsky.social’s retaliatory lawsuit against me and other journalists continues to force me into prioritizing other work so I can pay an attorney to defend their frivolous lawsuit. Don’t believe any of them when/if they ever say they support a free press.

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A May 2026 report by Million Dollar Hoods at UCLA found that the L.A. County sheriff’s and probation departments have cost the county more than $1 billion on litigation expenses, including settlements, judgments and legal fees, over a 12-year period. capitalandmain.com/sheriffs-pro...

LA Mayor Karen Bass answered questions from the press this afternoon about the Trump administration’s accusation of election fraud in California. #news #LosAngeles #LAMayor #SpencerPratt

Raman passes Pratt in the LA Mayor tally

I spoke with Sheriff Robert Luna ahead of Tuesday’s primary election. We discussed the department’s work with federal agencies, enforcing a mask ban on ICE, and why he thinks a nuanced approached to deputy gangs is necessary.

Mike Bornman retired after 36 years at the LA Sheriff’s Department, and now he is running for Sheriff. He says he has a tattoo, but that does not make him a gangster. He points to his record of investigating other department members as evidence that he does not tolerate misconduct.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May Yahoo Leading CA Gov candidate billionaire Tom Steyer sides with trans kids: "I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. ...[A]lmost half of them try to commit suicide [and] we’re gonna cut them off from team sport.' It’s like, no we’re not."

This company wants to turn every school bus into a mobile license plate reader www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?

Dozens of countertop stone cutters in California have died after contracting the lung disease silicosis. The industry says the engineered stone causing it can be worked with safely. But public health experts are urging state regulators to ban it. youtu.be/NO4HWDzeLDQ