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Los Angeles, California
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  2. Oct 31

    🙌 This right here! We love what said during the 's This is Not a Drill: Yes On Measure J panel last week. This movement is about fundamental change, and that comes from fighting the system, not the people who are suffering under it. Vote

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  3. Bring your sticker and join us Sunday to get some BLM swag in honor of your vote!

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  4. Oct 30

    SATURDAY AT 6PM Halloween Night fun with & ! GET OUT the Vote... Meet us at Leimert Park for a FREE movie night ft. GET OUT with special guest , free food, treats, prizes and a ballot drop box on site. Bring the family!

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  6. Oct 29

    As a reminder... BLMLA does not endorse political candidates.

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  7. Oct 29

    HAPPENING NOW! Hear from our brilliant folks: Audrena Redmond of , Cecily Myart-Cruz of & Angela Waters Austin of . Hosted by our own .

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  8. Oct 27

    My public comment at today. Silliness of the song aside, the anti-Black racism inherent to policing is serious, and is exemplified by the LAPD’s own data. For full version: “At the Foundation of Policing is anti-Blackness”

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  9. Oct 27

    So on this mornings BOS meeting, Sheriff Villanueva shifted his lack of transparency and accountability to the Inspector General, yet called himself the "most transparent and accountable" sheriff

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  10. Oct 27

    Based on LAPD’s own data: “734 complaints of bias policing and 0 sustained for 2019....But it’s worse...Since 2010 4862 reports of bias policing and 0 sustained.” -Hamid Khan of

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  11. Oct 27

    If you’re not listening YOU MKSSED A CLASSIC! just did a full 3 minutes as a song with the chorus: “It’s plain to see the LAPD’s racist.”

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  12. Oct 27

    52% of the complaints of racial bias v. LAPD were filed by Black men. After investigating themselves, LAPD found all of them invalid.

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  13. Oct 27

    “There is racial bias in LAPD...period.” -Paula Minor

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  14. Oct 27

    Chief Moore just presented that LAPD’s murderous record of 7 killed-by-cops so far this year is a victory.

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  15. Oct 27

    How contemporary colonialism works... First they block...and then when they can resist no longer...they appropriate our work, presenting it as their own.

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  16. Oct 27

    Let’s be clear... , community organizers and THE PEOPLE demanded and won the removal of police from mental heath calls. NOT Commissioners, NOT , not politicians, and DEF not LAPD.

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  17. Oct 27

    2 important meetings RIGHT NOW: 1. LA Police Commission may rubberstamp LAPD’s claim that 0/734 racial bias complaints are valid. 2. After sheriffs shot a patient at UCLA Harbor, Board of Supes proposes removing cops fm hospitals.

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  18. Oct 26

    Be sure to join us in Boyle Heights 5:00 pm Nov 4th to demand a people's mandate.

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  19. Oct 26

    I know we’re focused on the election and , but after we vote her out on November 3rd, let’s be sure the sheriff isn’t too far behind.

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  20. Oct 25

    a dope CA voter guide from . this + vote j*ckie l*cey the hell out!

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