California Raisin Heir Discovers Threatening To Murder Rabbi Is Surprisingly Bad For Public Relations

This idiot didn't earn his fortune

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA — In what experts are calling an innovative new approach to neighborhood relations, the heir to one of California's largest raisin fortunes has been charged with felony hate crimes after allegedly standing on his balcony and screaming anti-Semitic death threats at a rabbi leading a Sabbath prayer service next door.

Authorities say Bruce Alfred Lion, 64, apparently looked at a peaceful gathering of Jewish worshipers and concluded that the best use of his evening was to audition for the role of "Most Unhinged Hateful Neighbor in Los Angeles."

According to prosecutors, Lion allegedly shouted threats at Rabbi Zushe Cunin of Chabad of Pacific Palisades while the rabbi was leading a Shabbat service on June 5. Witnesses reported that the service had previously been focused on prayer, community, and worship before being unexpectedly interrupted by what sounded like a malfunctioning cable-news comment section.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office charged Lion with three felony hate crimes, including one count of violation of civil rights and two counts of criminal threats.

"Hate has no place in Los Angeles County. My office is aggressively prosecuting these disturbing acts that tear at the fabric of our society," Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said in a statement.

Prosecutors say hate crimes in Los Angeles have surged in recent years, with antisemitic incidents reaching record highs. Meanwhile, Lion allegedly contributed to those statistics with all the subtlety of a man trying to speedrun a felony indictment.

Hochman warned that crimes motivated by prejudice against religion, race, nationality, gender, or sexual orientation will continue to be prosecuted, a reminder that "don't threaten to kill your neighbors" remains one of society's more achievable standards.

Lion was arrested on June 13. Prosecutors requested, and received, bail set at $225,000. If convicted, he faces up to nine years and four months in prison, giving him ample time to reflect on the fact that screaming antisemitic threats at a rabbi is generally considered a poor life strategy.

Perhaps the most remarkable part of the story was the speed with which Lion's family's company sprinted away from him.

"Recent reports about the conduct of Bruce Lion are deeply troubling and do not reflect the values of Lion Raisins. We unequivocally condemn anti-Semitism, racism, and all forms of hate, discrimination, and intolerance," the company said in a statement.

The company further clarified that the suspect "does not actively participate in the company’s day-to-day operations," a corporate phrase roughly translating to: "Please stop associating us with the guy yelling threats from a balcony."

The statement added that Lion Raisins remains "committed to fostering understanding and respect among all communities and to ethical conduct, mutual respect, and responsible corporate citizenship."

Sources say the company's public relations team achieved a new Olympic record in the event known as Distancing Yourself From The Relative Who Just Got Charged With Three Felony Hate Crimes.


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NBC News sides with Chinese agent, worried her arrest would cause racial backlash

Well, this headline from NBC News proves that the brain rot on our college campuses seeps into the workplace—you already knew that. You saw glimpses of it at The New York Times when they forced Bari Weiss, a liberal by the way, out of her job over her pro-Israel and free speech stances. 

When an elected official is busted for being a foreign agent, that’s a problem. It’s a story. What’s not a story is the speculation that some racial backlash could happen. Alas, that’s what the outlet found to be the most pressing matter (via NBC News):

The resignation of a Southern California mayor who pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent for China has sparked backlash and reignited fears of anti-Asian discrimination.

Earlier this week, Eileen Wang, 58, admitted to federal law enforcement that she “secretly served the interests of the Chinese government,” according to the FBI. She agreed to plead guilty to a single count of acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government and resigned as mayor of Arcadia, a predominantly Asian city in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles.

Political figures including Bernadette Breslin, a spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said the indictment was another example of Chinese-led plans to weaken the United States from within.

But racist comments began to appear on social media feeds soon after FBI Director Kash Patel announced on X the case against Wang. Many replies to Patel’s post announcing the charges suggested investigating other prominent Asian American women political figures. Others suggested violent punishment for her.

Advocates said they are concerned that this rhetoric is part of a long history of fear and discrimination that has proliferated for generations in regard to Asian communities, especially Chinese immigrants. Experts who spoke to NBC News said Asian people in the U.S. are often treated as perpetual outsiders, which can motivate violence in some cases.

It seems that those perpetrating acts of political violence are anti-Trump leftists, but it obviously goes against the narrative.

Brain Flushings tried to reach Eric Swalwell for his take on the situation, but he was indisposed with someone who goes by the name Fang Fang--just kidding, sort of.

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Billionaire Dem Donor Who Turned on the Party After Swalwell Allegations Gets Arrested

The billionaire timeshare kingpin who suddenly ditched former Rep. Eric Swalwell and booted him from his California mansion over sexual misconduct allegations was arrested Tuesday. 

Stephen Cloobeck, the founder of Diamond Resorts International, turned himself in to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in West Hollywood. He faces a felony charge of attempting to prevent or dissuade a victim or witness from testifying, the California Post reported.

Details on exactly what went down remain fuzzy. He posted $300,000 bail and walked out, per jail records. Fox News Digital asked the sheriff's department and Cloobeck himself for comment. 

"These charges are false, and we look forward to our day in court," a spokesperson for Cloobeck told the newspaper.

Cloobeck, a former gubernatorial candidate, had been backing Swalwell's run for California governor until the sexual assault claims surfaced. That was enough for him to bail on his old pal and the entire Democratic Party.

"I am no longer supporting Eric. F---ing tell everyone I’m a libertarian. F--- you, Democratic Party. I’m a libertarian now," Cloobeck told the Post at the time.

"I am now a Republican," he added to Fox 11 LA.

Swalwell has denied the claims against him in a video filmed inside Cloobeck's home. At the time, Cloobeck, who briefly ran for governor before dropping out and endorsing his former friend, said he kicked Swalwell out of his Beverly Hills mansion, stating that Swalwell "busted the trust" between them.

"I am no longer associated with a man that takes advantage of women," Cloobeck told reporters. "I support women’s rights."

Even in the clown world of California politics, this one has some extra layers of delicious irony. A big-money Dem donor finally sees the light, flips the bird to the party, and now finds himself in legal hot water. Hollywood could not script this stuff any better.

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Swalwell accuser comes forward with photo evidence

Lonna Drewes and Rep. Eric Swalwell, (D-CA) are shown in a photo presented at Tuesday's news conference. It purports to show her and the congressman in 2018 at the opening of Avra restaurant in Beverly Hills. "Provided by Drewes and attorney Lisa Bloom."

An attorney for Eric Swalwell accuser Lonna Drewes blasted the outgoing congressman's public response Tuesday. She called his comments "blather and spin" and "a slap in the face to the victims."

At Tuesday's Beverly Hills news conference at the law office of attorneys Lisa Bloom and Arick Fudali, the legal team said it would immediately file a police report with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office.

Bloom blasted Swalwell's recent statement in which he said he was "not perfect" and "not a saint" and framed the matter as one between him and his wife.

"Your statement that this is all just a matter between you and your wife is laughable, if not for the fact that it is a slap in the face to the victims," Bloom told reporters. "Your statement [Monday] that you just made, 'mistakes in judgment' is defensive and minimizing.

"Stop it. Own your behavior."

Bloom said her team would provide investigators with evidence including text messages, journal entries, a photograph and witness information.

"We will not rest until we get justice for Lonna," Bloom said.

Dropping out of the gubernatorial race and resigning from Congress is not enough, Bloom added.

"Losing one's job is not a sufficient consequence for these types of allegations," she said. "We feel that the criminal investigations are the priority."Bloom also argued Swalwell's resignation was not an act of accountability, but an effort to avoid further scrutiny.

"I do not, in my opinion, see that as an act of accountability at all," Bloom said. "I see it as an effort to avoid the expulsion hearing that was coming."

Bloom also issued a broader call for other possible accusers or witnesses to come forward. She said she had already received messages from other women and that her firm was available to speak with them confidentially.

"Enough is enough," Bloom said. "I'm sick and tired of women being victimized by men in power."

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Karen Bass nearly has a cow after Trump freezes UCLA funds--but wait, there's more!

Well look who's throwing a tantrum now. Failed Los Angeles Democrat Mayor Karen Bass took to social media late Friday night, positively seething over news that the Trump administration yanked over half a billion bucks in funding from UCLA for playing footsie with anti-Semitism on campus. Apparently, the university thought it could just ignore those pesky allegations of Jew-hatred without consequence. 

They thought wrong.

Bass, who's never been accused of being the brightest light on the Chanukah bush  (remember when she jetted off to Ghana while the Palisades wildfires raged, only to mosey back like it was no big deal?), is predictably late to the outrage party. And oh boy, she is gonna lose her tiny mind when she hears the latest: The Trump administration is now gunning for a billion-dollar settlement from UCLA. Yes, you read that right, a cool $1 billion for letting their campus turn into a cesspool of civil rights violations tied to anti-Semitism during those oh-so-enlightened pro-Palestinian protests.

The deal on the table is that UCLA coughs up the billion in installments, sets up a $172 million fund for victims of discrimination, and makes some actual policy changes. We're talking revamping their protest rules, rethinking those race-based scholarships, and, get this, cutting funding for gender-affirming care at UCLA's hospital. No more little boys getting their wee-wees chopped off, nor girls their breasts. 

This is reasonable stuff, unless you're one of the woke overlords running UCLA into the dirt, in which case you're probably clutching your pearls and screaming about the end of the world.

UC President James Milliken, for instance, is out here whining that the financial hit would "devastate" UCLA's research mission and the entire public university system. 

"As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country's greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians," Milliken bleated in a statement. Sorry Jimmy, maybe if you had been better "stewards" of taxpayer cash instead of letting your campus become a playground for liberal lunacy, you wouldn't be in this mess. 

Just spitballing here.

Meanwhile, $584 million in federal research funding is already on ice as leverage, and Bass is not a fan. She called it a "reckless decision" that "will have devastating consequences for scientific progress." 

UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk is also having a full-on meltdown, warning, "If these funds remain suspended," per Politico, "it will be devastating for UCLA and for Americans across the nation."

Let’s be real: Nobody is losing sleep over UCLA potentially ponying up a billion bucks for fostering bigotry, ignoring it, and then doubling down. And honestly, they'd be a lot better off, maybe even earn a modicum of respect, if they ditched the racial discrimination, anti-Semitism, and advocacy for child mutilation. Just a thought.

That being said, what are your thoughts?

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BREAKING: Palm Springs explosion kills one at American Reproductive Services Building

An explosion at around 11 a.m. heavily damaged a fertility clinic in the upscale California city of Palm Springs. The event appears to have been intentional, local authorities said. One person was found dead, and the FBI said it was sending investigators, including bomb technicians, to the scene. The dead person is believed to be the perpetrator, but this is unclear.

Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Mills said in a statement Saturday that the blast “appears to be an intentional act of violence” and that several buildings were severely damaged.

The act was being investigated as a possible car explosion, said two law enforcement officials briefed on the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss preliminary information from an ongoing investigation. Authorities have not disclosed a motive.

FBI Los Angeles said in a social media post on X that “assets being deployed include investigators, bomb technicians & an evidence response team.” Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also assisting.

The city of Palm Springs said Saturday that the explosion happened at 11 a.m. local time and that residents were being asked to avoid the area around North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive.

Dr. Maher Abdallah, who runs the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic, confirmed that his clinic was damaged. He told The Associated Press in a phone interview that all of his staff were safe and accounted for. The explosion damaged the practice’s office space, where it conducts consultations with patients, but left the IVF lab and all of the stored embryos there unharmed.

“I really have no clue what happened,” Abdallah said. “Thank God today happened to be a day that we have no patients.”

Aerial footage showed a burned-out car in a parking lot behind the building that housed the fertility clinic’s office space. The blast caved in the building’s roof and blew a wide debris field across a sidewalk and four lanes of the street on the other side of the structure.

Rhino Williams, 47, was chatting with customers at a restaurant he helps manage inside the Skylark Hotel just over a block away from the scene when he heard a huge boom. He saw a large dark gray plume of smoke and covered his nose with his shirt as he smelled burning plastic and rubber. He also said that he saw a building had “blown out” into the street, with bricks and debris scattered everywhere, and spotted a car’s front axle on fire in the building’s parking lot.

Nima Tabrizi, 37, of Santa Monica, said he was inside a cannabis dispensary nearby when he felt a massive explosion. 

“The building just shook, and we go outside and there’s massive cloud smoke,” Tabrizi said. “Crazy explosion. It felt like a bomb went off. ... We went up to the scene, and we saw human remains.”

Palm Springs is a community in the desert about a two-hour drive east of Los Angeles. Its known for upscale resorts and a history of celebrity residents.

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Venezuelan illegal alien gang leader arrested in Calif. on immigration charges

Yonaiker Gallegos

The border mess just keeps delivering gut punches, and this one’s a doozy. According to the Trump administration, as told to Fox News on Monday, a Venezuelan illegal alien—alleged big shot in the ultra-violent Tren de Aragua gang—got nabbed in Los Angeles last week. 

Yonaiker [rhymes with yarmulka] Gallegos, who was slinking around under the alias “Yoniaker Rafel Martinez-Ramos” (nice try, pal), was already cooling his heels in LA County lockup on misdemeanor charges for blank checks and toting a fake government ID. 

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) sniffed him out on April 22, per a senior Trump official. They got wise to his “Martinez-Ramos” charade after eyeballing the junk he had on him when local cops scooped him up. 

By April 23, HSI’s National Gang Unit had the goods—tattoo pics and booking photos that screamed, “Yup, this is Gallegos.” They even dug up his social media, where this genius was apparently dumb enough to post his real face. Facial recognition tech sealed the deal, confirming he’s Yonaiker Gallegos, not some wannabe with a bad alias.

They always catch the dumb ones.

And get this: Fox News got a video from his social media where he’s allegedly flexing grenades and a rifle like he’s auditioning for a cartel flick [see photo above].

Real brain trust, this guy. You won't run into him at any Mensa meeting.

HSI Los Angeles teamed up with state and local badges to haul Gallegos into federal custody on April 25 for Title 8 immigration violations. The senior official didn’t mince words: he was “identified as a leader of TDA based in California.” ICE backed it up, confirming the arrest.

So, here we are—another day, another dangerous thug who shouldn’t be here in the first place, allegedly running a gang show in our backyard. If this doesn’t scream “fix the damn border,” I don’t know what does.

Meanwhile, the Democrats still want to impeach Trump. Maybe it's because they're hiding something.

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DEI FEMA Director claims Calif. was "very prepared" for fires.

Failed FEMA Administrator Deanna Criswell, was interviewed on CBS News by Margaret Brennan over the weekend. Brennan asked Criswell "why the area was so unprepared" for the fires, to which she said that in Southern California officials "were very prepared" for the fires, "I think they were very prepared," because that is the type of answer a D.E.I. hire who is thoroughly incompetent for this job would give to cover their butt. 

Criswell also claimed that it was difficult for firefighters to reach the fires due to the fact that they were in "such a populated area."

But the areas are well known to have high winds and as this is being written there are gusts of winds blowing between 60 - 70 miles per hour in one area. They knew this and they knew the areas involved in fire were highly populated. 

But California didn't have enough water, nor enough firefighters to fight the fire, but Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass refused help when the New York Fire Department offered it.

The Palisades fires at this time destroyed 23,713 acres and Eaton area lost 14, 117 acres--these are biblical proportions compared to prior wildfires. None of these fires, now and in previous years, is a surprise; it's an ongoing phenomenon as are the Santa Ana winds. Twenty-four people have been confirmed dead.

No rain is forecasted for the week so Los Angeles remains dry.

Where is Kamala Harris?

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed has another brilliant idea to deal with the homeless

The streets of San Francisco

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is a woman with ideas. Unfortunately her ideas are generally idiotic. For example, she had the idea that paying the homeless drug using population a hundred dollars a week to stay off drugs was a brilliant idea. Anyone with a brain knows how that would work out for drug users with money in their pockets. 

But it's the taxpayers footing the expense, so what, she worry?

Now her latest stroke of genius is to offer bus tickets to the homeless and hope they "get out of Dodge." She is having city workers and cops who are conducting sweeps to get the homeless out of their tent villages, offer them bus tickets out of town in place of a shelter bed.

This is a cry of desperation by a failing mayor in a failing city.

Don't believe everything you read

“We’re reverting to enforcement,” said Wayman Young, a police officer overseeing the sweep in San Francisco. “Now we don’t have to offer shelter, even though we still do.” They just offer a bribe and hope it works.

There are roughly 3,600 beds for 8,300 homeless folks. Even if they double-up it won't be enough bed. However, only about 350 take up the offer during sweeps this week. 

“Unfortunately, San Francisco does not have enough shelter or housing for every person experiencing homelessness, but we do have some beds available each day to support the work of the outreach teams, and we continue to grow our system,” Emily Cohen, the department’s spokesperson, wrote in an email.

In recent years the number of homeless from out of town has spiked. According to Bloomberg, "[T]he percentage of unhoused people in San Francisco who are from other California counties or different states has increased to 40%, up from 28% in 2019, according to data provided by the mayor’s office."

Breed lost a court case that prevented her from forcing the homeless off the streets. Those federal orders prevented both San Francisco and Los Angeles from clearing encampments and removing the homeless because there weren't enough shelter beds, which never occurred to the Democrat mayors, London Breed and Karen Bass. 

With the city possessing less than half the number of shelter beds that were needed, there was little that city officials were able to do until the Supreme Court decision, Grants Pass v. Johnson made laws preventing outdoor camping easier to enforce.

Woke enough yet?

Rather than looking for the obvious solution to San Francisco's homeless problem, Breed, concerned over the upcoming election, tried strategies other than increasing the number of shelter beds. 

On Thursday, Breed put her substantial weight behind a different approach. She issued an executive directive requiring outreach workers to offer homeless people who aren’t from San Francisco free transportation out of town, maybe to places where they have friends or family who are willing to take them in. 

California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statewide directive to clear homeless encampments. But Los Angeles County, which is dealing with 75,000 homeless people, has decided to defy the governor's directive and continue to same failed policies. They call it "care first." Others call it "keep your bedbugs out on the streets."

It's clear that these Democrats don't care at all for these Los Angeles County residents who are exposed to the risks posed by this mentally ill population, mostly drug addicts desperate to do whatever they must for their next fix.

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CA Synagogue Leases Space to Moque and Gets Paid with a Reality Check

"Why did you sting me, now we will both die," said the frog. "I couldn't help it because it is my nature," answered the scorpion.

City of Angels, California -- a conservative congregation has gotten a reality check in their "outreach" and "dialogue" brainstorming with the religion of peace. 

The Hamakom synagogue naively leased its facility to a local Muslim group and the Muslim group unleashed its deep-rooted sentiments about Jewish people. Predictably, to everyone but the leaders of the Hamakom synagogue, the Muslim group didn't cotton so much to Jews and hosted a militant anti-Semitic speaker who refused to condemn the Hamassholes and compared Israel to Nazi Germany, making for an interesting "dialogue" and "outreach."

 

The leadership of the synagogue hoped to build bridges with Muslims in Los Angeles, which is why they leased to the Muslim group. “In this time of rising anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,” synagogue leaders told the congregation, “it is incumbent upon us to reach out to strengthen the bonds between religious communities in our neighborhood, recognizing there is more that unites us than divides us.” 

Of course, this was as short-sighted as the last husky on the dog sled, but it was well-intentioned. They didn't anticipate how hundreds of years of hatred and suspicion for the Jews would manifest itself. After all, weren't they being nice to the Muslims?

But the synagogue leaders didn't realize how they were seen as  “the most vehement of mankind in hostility to those who believe,” as the Qur’an says (5:82). They let the Muslims use the building every night while the Jews  “would only be allowed to worship in two rooms from 8 p.m. to midnight. Evening programs and Friday night Sabbath services were also relocated to a smaller site also owned by the synagogue.” 

To show the Muslims their willingness to grovel for their friendship, understanding and coexistence with them, the Hamakom leadership covered up the pictures of the Israeli hostages kidnapped by the Hamassholes on October 7, 2023 when they invaded Israel and killed, tortured, beheaded, burned, raped and mutilated over 1,200 Israelis, in an unprovoked attack.

The level to which the synagogue leadership was willing to go to in order to virtue signal was boundless. They were willing to give up their principals to show how open-minded they are.

On the other hand, the Islamic Society of West Valley held fast to their own beliefs and weren't eager to befriend people they consider to be apes and pigs, as their so called holy scripture calls Jews and Christians.

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LA teachers may strike this week, demand equity pay

Los Angeles is supposed to be the City of Angels, but it seems more like it's the city of communists, at least as far as the teachers are concerned. The nation's second-largest school system is threatening a 3-day strike this coming week starting on Tuesday, March 21 through Thursday, March 23.

Members of SEIU Local 99, aka Education Workers United, an obvious oxymoron, voted to approve a strike with support from the district's Democrat teacher's union, United Teachers Los Angeles, which represents 35,000 so-called educators. They vow to honor the strike and will not cross the picket lines.

Workers in the thousands, from lunch workers to school bus drivers working in the  Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are demanding more money, more full-time work, respect, more staffing levels for better student services, and bonuses for being forced to come into the schools now that Covid isn't what it was cracked up to be. 

They say the school district has engaged in "unfair practices" and that there hasn't been much progress since the negotiations started in April of last year, possibly due to the fact that meetings tend to be a situation where the minutes are kept and hours are wasted.

 In December, SEIU Local 99 announced talks had reached an impasse and a state mediator was appointed to oversee communications between the two parties.

The strike was authorized by 96% of LAUSD school workers represented by SEIU Local 99 in February. The 4% who opposed the strike have not been seen nor heard from since Valentine's Day.

During a Wednesday news conference, district Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said that the strike will make it "virtually impossible to keep schools open." 

So too bad kids. You won't learn about the 57 genders and how to choose your pronouns.

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Ex-"Scrubs" producer faces 18 counts for alleged sex crimes

Definitely not a "Chick Magnet"

Eric Weinberg, an ex-producer of the show "Scrubs" was hit with 18 felony counts for alleged sexual assaults of five women, Harvey Weinstein style. What's with it with guys whose names start with 'Wein'?

Anyway, the loser lured his victims using his Hollywood bona fides, the Los Angeles District Attorney said Wednesday.

Weinberg's alleged crimes took place from 2014 until 2019. He would convince  his victims to go to his home where he allegedly sexually assaulted them. He was arrested Tuesday, about a week after he was charged.

Some of the counts against the alleged scumbag, who also co-executive produced the television show “Californication,” include six counts of sexual penetration by use of force, four counts of oral copulation, three counts of forcible rape and two counts of sexual battery by restraint, the LA County District Attorney’s Office said. 

“The defendant relied on his Hollywood credentials to lure young women for photo shoots where he allegedly sexually assaulted them,” leftist District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement. Had Weinberg been an illegal alien this would have never gotten to this point and he would have instead received housing, medical benefits, and food stamps.

“Power and influence can corrupt some to hurt others that often leads to a lifetime of trauma for those who are victimized," Gascón said, unaware of the irony of his words.

“My office’s Bureau of Victim Services is here to help in the healing process to ensure all victims have the guidance and support they need on the road to recovery.”

Weinberg, 62, is out of custody after he forked over a $5 million bond, prosecutors said.

The district attorney’s office said two separate times in 2014 Weinberg went up to women in public places and told them he was a photographer and eventually got them to come to his home where he was alleged to have sexually assaulted them.

Then in 2017, he plotted out the same plan leading to another sexual assault, according to prosecutors. Weinberg’s other two sexual assaults connected to the charges occurred with two women in different incidents in 2018 and 2019, the district attorney’s office alleged.

Weinberg's lawyer Robin Sax, said the accusations by all five women were a "blatant smear campaign" designed to put her client in the "most horrendous light," according to the Los Angeles Times.

The LAPD previously arrested creepy Weinberg in July for alleged sex crimes between 2012 and 2019. A news release stated that he would approach the women he targeted in grocery stores, coffee shops, and other public spots and offer them photo shoots and potato chips or a mocha frappalatte with a dab of creme de brolio and cinnamon. 

Since Weinberg’s initial arrest over the summer, Gascón’s office said “dozens of additional potential victims have contacted law enforcement.”

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The district attorney’s office vowed that, in spite of Weinberg having voted for Obama and then Biden, each incident would nevertheless be “thoroughly investigated and reviewed for additional charging.”

His arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 25 whereupon he is expected to identify a gay Venezuelan illegal immigrant named Pedro Jose de Guapo el Sid Mercado.

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LA DA Gascon walks back claim of sheriff's involvement in hit-and-run case

Hard left Los Angeles DA George Gascon is up for recall and needs only about 60 thousand additional signatures for this to go forward by July 6th, and it looks like they will get them. LA county is practically lawless under his watch and people have finally awakened to it.

Now Gascon, a George Soros supported DA, is walking back his claim that the sheriff's department "agreed with the felony charges" and extremely light sentencing against a teenager convicted of intentionally driving a car into a mother and her infant son on August 6, 2021.

The driven now 17, pleaded guilty to two felony charges of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury and one felony count of hit-and-run. He was sentenced to a 5 to 7 month vacation in a juvenile probation camp. I call it a vacation because the camp has been described by prosecutors as  "less than a military school and a little bit tougher than a summer camp."

An initial statement by Gascon provided to Fox News Digital said that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department agreed with the charges and sentencing. Turns out Gascon isn't just incompetent, he's also a liar. 

His office told the media:

"Fortunately, the baby was uninjured, and the mother received a laceration to her elbow. The Sheriff’s Department agreed with the felony charges that were filed. At arraignment, the minor admitted two felony counts of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury and one felony count of hit-and-run. The Probation Department recommended, and the court sentenced the minor to a youth camp for five to seven months, an appropriate resolution."

The statement added that juvenile justice is intended to "rehabilitate young people." [By evidently not holding them accountable for violent criminal behavior.]

"In this case, this teen will be held accountable for his actions and receive the needed services to foster positive development to keep him from committing future offenses," the fallacious statement read.

Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva called out Gascon saying, "We were never consulted as we were not the investigating agency." 

Once Gascon's office was "outed" it corrected the statement on Saturday, admitting that the sheriff's office was not involved.

"Need to correct our statement [aka false claim] from yesterday. LASD was not involved in the decision on the felony charge, as they were not the investigating agency in that case," a spokesperson for the district attorney's office said.

Villanueva had previously said that his office was not consulted regarding the charges.

"We were never consulted as we were not the investigating agency," the Los Angeles official wrote on Facebook and Twitter early Saturday. "Sheriff’s investigators would never be OK with the lightweight sentencing in this hit-and-run case. Stop empowering and encouraging criminal behavior. Hold them accountable #VictimsMatter."

The incident of what appears to be attempted murder was caught on surveillance video and shows the car hitting the mother and her infant in a stroller.

The mother wrote in a victim's impact report that she thought "those were the last moments of our lives."

"I thought those were the last moments of our lives; we were dead," the mother, who asked to be identified only as Rachel, wrote in a victim’s impact statement. "That feeling, along with the memory of a car accelerating directly into us, will haunt me forever."

Police sources say that the driver, who was 16 at the time, initially told police that the mother appeared out of nowhere and hit her on accident with the stolen car.

"As the car approached me and my child, I stopped walking and moved the stroller and myself up against a building on the right side of the road to ensure that we gave the reckless driver plenty of room to pass," Rachel said. "As the car got dangerously close to us, [the juvenile suspect] turned the wheels in our direction and accelerated as he aimed to kill us."

Rachel blasted Gascon for what she feels is basically a non-sentence because it is so light.

"I was also told that his record would be wiped clean when he turns 18," she continued. "How on earth can that be? He tried to murder two innocent pedestrians. Murder. And we have video evidence. My child would be dead if I hadn’t been there to protect him."

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A better sentence might be that the driver is banned from driving until he reaches the age of at least 35. If caught driving before that time he would be sentenced to 20 years in prison and stripped of his future driving privileges. His record should not be wiped clean. 

And Gascon must go. 

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Calif. LGBTQ child molester charged with 1st degree murder

A gender dysphoric man who goes by the name Hannah Tubbs, is a California inmate for molesting a child. He is now being charged Tuesday with murder in the first degree by Kern County after he was recently charged in connection to a 2019 robbery.

Tubbs is being held on one million dollar bond and is scheduled to appear for an arraignment hearing Tuesday afternoon, as per Kern County court documents.

A spokesman for DA George  Gascón's office told Fox News that Los Angeles officials will be notified if Tubbs is released from custody in Kern County because Gascón, a George Soros sponsored scumcrumpet, has more sympathy for murderers than he has for the murdered and victims in general.

"District Attorney George Gascón is committed to protecting the public and especially our children," the spokesman claimed without evidence. "In this case, Hannah Tubbs continues to serve her [he's a dude] Los Angeles County sentence, while being prosecuted on an unrelated robbery charge in Kern County," Ricardo Santiago, a public information officer for the DAs office said. "Her transfer was based on a 2019 warrant and approved by a court."

Tubbs became the center of controversy earlier this year when he pleaded guilty in connection with a 2014 assault on a 17-year-old girl inside a Denny's restaurant bathroom. Tubbs grabbed the girl by the throat, locked her in a stall and sexually assaulted her.

So it's possible that Tubbs who claims to identify as a woman, is actually identifying as a lesbian--makes perfect sense . . . if you're a leftist.

Tubbs pleaded guilty to the attack last month, though the incident took place when Tubbs was two weeks shy of 18 and went by the name James Edward Tubbs. 

When authorities arrested Tubbs roughly eight years after the crime, the weasel, who has since been convicted of child molestation, began identifying as a woman, according to prosecutors. Evidently, it's safer "becoming" a woman in a woman's prison than just a guy who molests children in a man's prison, where they don't take well to men that hurt children.

Tubbs was sentenced to two years at a juvenile facility because Gascón refused to have him transferred to adult court, as his directive from day-one barred "children" from being tried as adults. Tubbs may not even be required to register as a sex offender and he could "walk" in as little as six months.

This case, among others, sparked criticism of Gascón's directive that minor offenders who have been suspected of  committing serious crimes not be tried as adults. Now Gascón is facing a recall effort following the Tubbs sentence, as LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger called the outcome regarding Mr. Tubbs "unsatisfactory." 

Barger is the queen  of understatement.

"Judge Barrera’s hands were tied today – due to the fact that the DA’s office failed to file a motion to transfer Tubbs to adult criminal court, which is where she rightly belongs," Barger said. "Instead, we’re left with a 26-year-old individual sentenced to two years in a juvenile facility in isolation, separated by sight and sound from the other juveniles."

Tubbs was later caught on a jailhouse phone call gloating about the case and bragging that he wouldn't have to register as a sex offender.

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Tubbs was also accused of sexually molesting a 4-year-old girl at a California library in August 2013 while her mother was browsing books "just a few aisles over."

If he identifies as a woman, the court should demand he have his twig and berries removed.

Tubbs is currently being held under the name James Tubbs in Kern County.

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Venice Beach residents demand LA officials act on homeless encampments and crime

Let's call them Bagavonds

The residents of Venice Beach, California are getting what they voted for as homeless encampments and crime continues to fester. And with the Super Bowl on Sunday, they were hoping that ticket holders to the game wouldn't need to see the feces on their streets and the homeless people who put it there.

Around 70 homeless folks of all stripes and odors have been camping overnight at Venice Beach as America's football game gets ready for kickoff and tailgaters get ready to ingest unhealthy food and drink. A recent set of fires associated with the homeless living there has residents worried the fires will spread to their luxury homes and businesses if the Democrats in the city continue to sit on their hands and do nothing, as they tend to do.

Venice Neighborhood Council President Mark Ryavec told Fox News Digital that the 70 or so homeless woh remain in the neighborhood even after last summer's 200 homeless were cleared out, are among the most dangerously drug addicted and mentally ill who have remained. This is obviously due to the indifference of the Democratic Party who are in power there.

Los Angeles city leadership "didn't finish the job," Ryavec said and contends that the LAPD needs more resources and only comes weekly to clear out the homeless. He believes they should do this several times a week to be effective.

"The police and other city agencies have made a valiant effort with too few resources. They're only out there one night a week. And basically, the campers just play cat and mouse," Ryavec said. "The police will tell them to leave, they'll leave and then the police leave, and they come back. So, they're never actually gone. And our concern is another major fire and one that might include the loss of life."

It's a game and the cops know it; the city knows it, and they don't care. As long as it looks like they're doing something, that's all that matters to them if it will keep them in office.

A lawyer for the Venice Neighborhood Council sent a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a serious contender for the award of "Nation's Worst Mayor." Now that Bill de Blasio is gone, Garcetti is a shoo-in.

City Councilman Mike Bonin, City Attorney Mike Feuer and other officials last month warned that the city could be liable for millions of dollars in lawsuit payouts if a fire linked to overnight homeless encampments again spreads to homes or businesses.

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But what about crime? Is the city free of legal recourse if they refuse to do their job?

Last January a fire from a homeless encampment jumped to a vacant building and more than 100 firefighters were called to put it out. The owner of the building is suing Los Angeles.

Photo: Rob Hoey

"Frankly, the city and the social service agencies created the problem by making it so attractive to live outside of Venice Beach," Ryavec said. "You have the bathrooms open 24 hours. Now there are social service agencies that constantly are bringing down and giving away free food.

"They were handing out tents, they were handing out blankets. They even have a doctor from the local free clinic coming down. Some people prefer that to, you know, actually getting their own apartment."

Is this any different from how the government is encouraging illegal immigration across the southern border? Instead of handing out tents, the government is handing out flights across the country.

The January 6th protest against the government had the right message but the wrong presentation.

There is something in the air and I'm not referring to the homeless encampment odors.

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Busted: TV cameraman for ABC, CNN and Conan O'Brien arrested for threatening Rep. Matt Gaetz

A man was arrested for threatening the lives of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and his children in a foul-mouth phone message to Gaetz's office, according to reports.

Eugene Huelsman was arrested last week in the Los Angeles area for a call made in January to Gaetz's office, according to Politico, three days after the U.S. Capitol riot. 

The indictment was handed down in May but was sealed pending Huelsman's arrest, according to Fox News.

The indictment refers to Heulsman's target only as M.G., but the congressman has since confirmed to the media that he was the target.

“Tell [M.G.] to watch his back, tell him to watch his children,” Huelsman said in the call, the indictment states, which was obtained by Politico. “I’m coming for him, he’s gonna f—king die … I’m gonna f—king kill him."

Huelsman allegedly continues with, “Watch your back, I’m coming for you. I’m gonna put a bullet in you and I’m gonna put a bullet in one of your f—king kids too,” allegedly sounding like a vulgar wicked witch of the west.

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Huelsman, of Thousand Oaks, CA, was a longtime camera operator in TV and film. He worked with “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” according to Politico, and also worked for ABC and CNN, according to Fox. 

It is possible that his work with Don LeMon and Chris Fredo Cuomo may have influenced his hate for Trump supporting Matt Gaetz, but there is no proof of that at this time.

Gaetz had recently said on the House floor that federal investigators were not taking the threats against him and his children seriously and believed those statements may have been the catalyst for the arrest.

“An indictment was issued in May, and has now been unsealed the week after my criticism,” Gaetz reportedly said. “If they if they took our security seriously, they would arrest all of the people who violate federal law and the threats to kill us, not just some of them … I think that the Department of Justice is biased against Republicans.”

Ya think?

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LA La Land spa protest turns violent after transgender "woman's" alleged un-lady-like incident

Los Angeles, CA -- protests broke out Saturday outside the LA spa where a man with gender dysphoria, [a guy thinking he's a woman] allegedly showed his penis and testicles to female children, teens and adults in the women's area.

Groups of people showed up at the spa to support the brave woman who complained about the incident, but people who think that men who believe they are women should be allowed to show their genitalia to children as long as these men are delusional.

Images show Antifa fascists wearing masks and flak vests, some of them carrying weapons and others waving signs or flags, not one of which was Old Glory.

Another video shows a mob of people clad in dark clothes and masks, some wearing flak vests bearing the word "PRESS," mocking and chasing a man down the street. He can be seen wearing a T-shirt that reads "Obey Jesus." He is punched from behind at least once, and subsequent photos show him with blood running down his face and chest.

If this doesn't make your stomach flip, then nothing with blatant anti-American values would.

The LAPD confirmed that cops were on the scene and had taken control of the situation, but could not immediately provide figures on potential arrests, if any, or injuries.

It's well past the time to do something about Antifa or any group when they're being violent. We need more, not less police, and we need to take a stand against Marxism, because that is what this is all about. We must get rid of the present bail reform nonsense when a person commits a violent crime and are let back out on the street within hours.

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Black woman, 23, beats 70-year-old Mexican-American thought she was Asian

Los Angeles, CA -- an elderly Mexican-American woman was savagely beaten by a Black woman who thought she was Asian. She spouted anti-Chinese slurs at her, according to reports.

The poor woman was simply riding a bus to go grocery shopping Friday in Eagle Rock, an LA neighborhood, according to her son. She was getting off the bus when a Black passenger screamed anti-Chinese racial epithets at her and then brutally beat the woman because beating men is harder for racists.

"The victim's son reportedly says that a female passenger, described as 'Black,' called his mother an anti-Asian slur and then attacked her," KTLA reported.

The attacker reportedly pulled out some of the victim's hair as she dragged her from the back of the bus to the front. The son said his mother suffered a concussion and a broken nose from the assault. Her leg was badly injured, and she now has difficulty walking, according to her son. She was allegedly held overnight in a hospital. Photos show the unnamed woman's face severely bruised and swollen.

"Nobody would help," the victim's son alleges. "Not even the bus driver." 

That is vomit-worthy.

A passenger called 911 to report the vicious beating.

The LAPD apprehended the woman shortly after the assault. Yasmine Beasley, 23, was arrested on felony battery charges the New York Post reported.

LAPD spokesman William Cooper told the Los Angeles Times that he was unsure if prosecutors would charge Beasley with a hate crime. 

No justice, no peace.

Jail records show that Beasley is being held on only $130,000 bond and is due in court on Friday, Crime Online reported.

The Stop AAPI Hate Reporting Center, which tracks incidents of discrimination, hate, and xenophobia against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders, reported 3,975 racially motivated incidents against Asian-Americans between March 19 last year and Feb. 28, 2021. Nearly 45% of the incidents in the United States took place in California, and 68% of the victims were female. 

California now holds the record as the most racist state in the nation. Liberals also hold the record for most racist party in politics--everything they see is racial and they hold low expectations on Black people in general.

I suspect the legacy media will not be reporting on this story, or if they do, they will likely not discuss the problem insofar as the ethnicity of the attackers tend to be statistically. This was not an act of "white supremacy" as those idiots like to claim. 

Asian Lives Matter. All Lives Matter. All. Period.

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Violence is busting out all over [the West Coast]

Major cities on the West Coast are experiencing riots mixed with protests Saturday night to honor the memory of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot in a police raid in Louisville, Kentucky, which is not n the West Coast.

The riots between the fascist crowds and police were seen in Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles and many arrests were made, which hardly matters to the arrestees since these leftist cities tend to let felons out after they had their breakfasts.

In Los Angeles, demonstrators smashed store windows and threw rocks at cops in Hollywood, where actors and actresses are calling for the defunding of police at the expense of the business owners, many of whom are minorities.

Social media videos showed police officers in riot gear near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street near the Hollywood Walk of Fame. One social media video showed a protester jumping on a police cruiser as it sped away. Unfortunately, the rioter was not hurt.

At least one officer was injured in the clashes, police said, according to an on-air report from KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. The officer’s condition was not reported.

It was unclear if any protesters were injured but we're keeping our fingers crossed that none are dead so that maybe one day we can put an end to the BLM and Antifa violence celebrations.

Bed Bath and Beyond, a CVS pharmacy and an Asian restaurant were among the businesses vandalized by the mostly peaceful protesters, according to KNBC and social media videos.

Police did not immediately report whether any scumcrumpets have been arrested but it hardly matters as they will be back out on the streets before you can say, "You know . . .  the thing."

Earlier, hundreds of protesters marched and celebrated Taylor’s life peacefully in Hollywood and other parts of the city until they didn't. 

In one video, police on bicycles are seen making arrests, while another video showed police in a van as they followed a group of potential anarchists.

Earlier, a violent clash broke out as police used pepper spray while moving in against a crowd.

A downtown Starbucks shop was seen with smashed windows and spray-painted messages on the outside. It's possible that the Mochalomafrappachota Latte was cold and this got them all riled up.

Police were also monitoring a group that they believed had been dragging construction signs and other items into the street in an apparent bid to block vehicles.

The Seattle Police Department tweets about 4 a.m. Saturday ET that they had made a mere 13 arrests.

In Portland, a federal courthouse in the downtown area appeared to be the main staging area for another face-off with authorities.

Just one night earlier, police had also made the magic number of 13 arrests and "kettled" about 100 demonstrators before allowing them to leave individually.

Last week’s protests outside the courthouse came soon after authorities removed a barrier that had been in place outside the building.

On Saturday night and into Sunday morning, new messages were seen spray-painted outside the courthouse, including, "Police are murderers." These same "mostly peaceful" demonstrators demonstrated their ambitions by attempting to murder those murderous police by burning them to death. Fortunately, it failed, just like their math scores.

Taylor, who was Black, was killed on March 13, 2020, when a group of Louisville Metro Police Department officers entered her apartment on a no-knock raid on Taylor's home as it was believed Walker was shipping drugs to that location. However, the police said that they did knock.

Taylor’s mostly peaceful and not very smart boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired at the officers, thinking they were burglars, he later told police. Naturally, the police officers decided that they didn't want to die so they fired back and Taylor was shot multiple times and killed in the crossfire.

Taylor’s family and their supporters have been seeking the prosecution of city police officers who participated in the raid that led to Taylor’s death. Three police officers have been fired and one detective was charged for allegedly shooting into adjacent apartments during the raid but none has been charged in connection with Taylor’s death.

Walker has filed a federal lawsuit against the Louisville police.

Authorities in Kentucky stress that their investigation is continuing.

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LaLa Land school board cuts 33% of cops; replaces them with "climate coaches"

The Los Angeles Unified School Board believes that cutting the police force by one-third as in "defunding the police," and using that money to hire social workers, "climate coaches," and restorative justice advisors will make the city safer from miscreants makes as much sense as trying to argue with frigid weather in Texas. Perhaps that's what "climate coaches" are best suited for.

The bone-headed move will eliminate 133 LA School Police, including 70 sworn police officers, 62 non-sworn officers, and a support staff member, which will leave the entire department with a less-than-whopping 211 officers, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The "climate coaches" are to replace police officers in secondary schools. They will be community leftists who, according to the Times, "will work to promote positive school culture and address implicit bias."

"Johnny, put that knife down and leave Billy alone--how does he make you feel? Use your words; use your words!"

The police will no longer patrol school campuses but will only respond when it's too late to impede crime. The social workers will, however, be highly skilled in talking about it and the "climate coaches" will talk about the weather as a way of changing the subject and offer alternatives to the kids of burning fossil fuels.

The union representing school police blasted the move in a statement Wednesday, warning the board's decision "will place our children and staff in harm's way."

But for the left, socialist policies will always obfuscate the needs of our Billys and Sallys. 

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