Adam Rose
@adamrose.bsky.social
✒️ Deputy Director of Advocacy @freedom.press
💽 Fellow and former COO of Starling Lab (Stanford+USC)
🌴 Board of Directors @lapressclub.bsky.social
💽 Fellow and former COO of Starling Lab (Stanford+USC)
🌴 Board of Directors @lapressclub.bsky.social
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Adam Rose
@adamrose.bsky.social
· Jul 19
LA Protest Visual Field Guide: How to identify police and “less lethal” munitions
LA Protest Visual Field Guide How to identify police and “less lethal” munitions An overview of law enforcement agencies commonly operating around Los Angeles and their use of so-called “less lethal” ...
docs.google.com
I made a DRAFT field guide to help journalists (or anyone) navigate police + protests in Los Angeles. ~80% done. Slides all illustrated w/photos:
👮 Agencies & Uniforms
🔫 Firearms & Devices
🎯 Munitions
🦺 PPE
🏥 Injuries
Sharing this as rough draft b/c feedback VERY welcome!
(Note: Google Slides.)
👮 Agencies & Uniforms
🔫 Firearms & Devices
🎯 Munitions
🦺 PPE
🏥 Injuries
Sharing this as rough draft b/c feedback VERY welcome!
(Note: Google Slides.)
It’s journalistic malpractice to let @mayor.lacity.gov Karen Bass exploit @donlemonofficial.bsky.social to pretend she cares about press.
It’s duplicitous and hurts all journalists.
Her own LAPD has committed hundreds of acts of violence against working press.
She’s never said ONE word about it.
It’s duplicitous and hurts all journalists.
Her own LAPD has committed hundreds of acts of violence against working press.
She’s never said ONE word about it.
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 AM
It’s journalistic malpractice to let @mayor.lacity.gov Karen Bass exploit @donlemonofficial.bsky.social to pretend she cares about press.
It’s duplicitous and hurts all journalists.
Her own LAPD has committed hundreds of acts of violence against working press.
She’s never said ONE word about it.
It’s duplicitous and hurts all journalists.
Her own LAPD has committed hundreds of acts of violence against working press.
She’s never said ONE word about it.
As someone constantly saying press should be allowed to do their job when police clash with protesters, I love this clip.
Bunch of press, standing nonchalant, off to side, leaning on wall, practically seem bored. Just. Doing. Their. Job.
I assume feds don’t like dumpster. Fair. Not press’s fault.
Bunch of press, standing nonchalant, off to side, leaning on wall, practically seem bored. Just. Doing. Their. Job.
I assume feds don’t like dumpster. Fair. Not press’s fault.
Anti-DHS protesters in LA moved a huge dumpster, partially blocking agents in their building.
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
As someone constantly saying press should be allowed to do their job when police clash with protesters, I love this clip.
Bunch of press, standing nonchalant, off to side, leaning on wall, practically seem bored. Just. Doing. Their. Job.
I assume feds don’t like dumpster. Fair. Not press’s fault.
Bunch of press, standing nonchalant, off to side, leaning on wall, practically seem bored. Just. Doing. Their. Job.
I assume feds don’t like dumpster. Fair. Not press’s fault.
This is a long and very quotable piece about one of the more bizarre episodes from the ICE surge in Minneapolis.
Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.
Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.
January 31, 2026 at 3:14 AM
This is a long and very quotable piece about one of the more bizarre episodes from the ICE surge in Minneapolis.
Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.
Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.
Reposted by Adam Rose
🔴 Three things you should know about the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort (hint: this never ends well for the government).
1. They were just doing their job.
2. The government keeps losing these cases.
3. We must call out attacks on journalists of color.
Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain:
1. They were just doing their job.
2. The government keeps losing these cases.
3. We must call out attacks on journalists of color.
Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain:
3 things you need to know about the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort
YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation
youtube.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:23 AM
🔴 Three things you should know about the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort (hint: this never ends well for the government).
1. They were just doing their job.
2. The government keeps losing these cases.
3. We must call out attacks on journalists of color.
Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain:
1. They were just doing their job.
2. The government keeps losing these cases.
3. We must call out attacks on journalists of color.
Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain:
As a certified drone pilot and longtime journalist, I say in here that new FAA rules are "totally mind-boggling, totally vague and totally problematic."
The feds are just trying to hide actions of ICE and Border Patrol from the press -- and making everyone on the ground less safe in the process.
The feds are just trying to hide actions of ICE and Border Patrol from the press -- and making everyone on the ground less safe in the process.
FAA’s mobile no-drone zones create First Amendment concerns
Quill, a magazine by the Society of Professional Journalists
www.quillmag.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:10 PM
As a certified drone pilot and longtime journalist, I say in here that new FAA rules are "totally mind-boggling, totally vague and totally problematic."
The feds are just trying to hide actions of ICE and Border Patrol from the press -- and making everyone on the ground less safe in the process.
The feds are just trying to hide actions of ICE and Border Patrol from the press -- and making everyone on the ground less safe in the process.
The courts keep telling this admin "no" in humiliating fashion.
Literally ruined the generations-old joke "a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich" when they couldn't indict the DC sandwich guy.
These charges won't stick, but damage already done: intimidating journalists and chilling 1A rights.
Literally ruined the generations-old joke "a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich" when they couldn't indict the DC sandwich guy.
These charges won't stick, but damage already done: intimidating journalists and chilling 1A rights.
The government’s arrests of journalists @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social are attacks on freedom of the press.
Two federal courts flatly rejected prosecuting Lemon, but instead of accepting that humiliating defeat, the government has now doubled down.
Read our statement:
Two federal courts flatly rejected prosecuting Lemon, but instead of accepting that humiliating defeat, the government has now doubled down.
Read our statement:
January 30, 2026 at 6:47 PM
The courts keep telling this admin "no" in humiliating fashion.
Literally ruined the generations-old joke "a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich" when they couldn't indict the DC sandwich guy.
These charges won't stick, but damage already done: intimidating journalists and chilling 1A rights.
Literally ruined the generations-old joke "a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich" when they couldn't indict the DC sandwich guy.
These charges won't stick, but damage already done: intimidating journalists and chilling 1A rights.
Reposted by Adam Rose
It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 PM
It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
Not the hero America deserves, but the one it needs right now.
"I'm f—king demanding that you act with some semblance of a f—king spine."
'Batman' blasts Bay Area city council over ICE's involvement in Super Bowl
"I'm f—king demanding that you act with some semblance of a f—king spine."
bit.ly
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Not the hero America deserves, but the one it needs right now.
“Those who have knowledge don’t predict. Those who predict don’t have knowledge.” - Lao Tzu, 6th century Chinese poet
(Wise words quoted today in @marketplace.org)
(Wise words quoted today in @marketplace.org)
January 29, 2026 at 1:54 AM
“Those who have knowledge don’t predict. Those who predict don’t have knowledge.” - Lao Tzu, 6th century Chinese poet
(Wise words quoted today in @marketplace.org)
(Wise words quoted today in @marketplace.org)
Reposted by Adam Rose
ICE & CBP have been out kidnapping people in Los Angeles every day since June. The media has moved on and acts like this isn’t still happening. The crises are ongoing. Solidarity with the people fighting back in Minneapolis and everywhere.
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
January 28, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE & CBP have been out kidnapping people in Los Angeles every day since June. The media has moved on and acts like this isn’t still happening. The crises are ongoing. Solidarity with the people fighting back in Minneapolis and everywhere.
If someone did this to an ICE agents they’d have put 30 bullets in the guy, opened an investigation into his family, and taken three paid months off for “internal bleeding.”
Omar took a step toward him to fend him off, then went back to speaking.
Respect.
Omar took a step toward him to fend him off, then went back to speaking.
Respect.
video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
January 28, 2026 at 2:27 AM
If someone did this to an ICE agents they’d have put 30 bullets in the guy, opened an investigation into his family, and taken three paid months off for “internal bleeding.”
Omar took a step toward him to fend him off, then went back to speaking.
Respect.
Omar took a step toward him to fend him off, then went back to speaking.
Respect.
Hey, whatever happened to the Epstein files?
In 21 days
•Venezuela
•Renee Good
•Greenland
•Alex Pretti
•Venezuela
•Renee Good
•Greenland
•Alex Pretti
January 27, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Hey, whatever happened to the Epstein files?
Reposted by Adam Rose
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Journalists and observers in Minneapolis:
Please send me photos of spent munitions (grenade, hand sprayed, etc.). Only when safe to approach, fumes may be toxic!
Photos before use also helpful.
Much confusion on green gas. Color is just dye, unclear which are OC, CS, etc. Canisters can confirm.
Please send me photos of spent munitions (grenade, hand sprayed, etc.). Only when safe to approach, fumes may be toxic!
Photos before use also helpful.
Much confusion on green gas. Color is just dye, unclear which are OC, CS, etc. Canisters can confirm.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 27, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Journalists and observers in Minneapolis:
Please send me photos of spent munitions (grenade, hand sprayed, etc.). Only when safe to approach, fumes may be toxic!
Photos before use also helpful.
Much confusion on green gas. Color is just dye, unclear which are OC, CS, etc. Canisters can confirm.
Please send me photos of spent munitions (grenade, hand sprayed, etc.). Only when safe to approach, fumes may be toxic!
Photos before use also helpful.
Much confusion on green gas. Color is just dye, unclear which are OC, CS, etc. Canisters can confirm.
Reposted by Adam Rose
“Keeping our streets safer” by…holding my riot gun in between my fucking knees at a crowd of unarmed media so I can struggle to pull the pin on my smoke grenade
January 26, 2026 at 6:43 AM
“Keeping our streets safer” by…holding my riot gun in between my fucking knees at a crowd of unarmed media so I can struggle to pull the pin on my smoke grenade
OMG @dieworkwear.bsky.social is so, so good at this. Big fan. For those of us who try to dress up occasionally he's our guide to men's clothing. Not just how it looks, but the message conveyed. He's also very funny.
And when he rolls up his sleeves like in this article, it's VERY enlightening.
And when he rolls up his sleeves like in this article, it's VERY enlightening.
January 25, 2026 at 9:23 PM
OMG @dieworkwear.bsky.social is so, so good at this. Big fan. For those of us who try to dress up occasionally he's our guide to men's clothing. Not just how it looks, but the message conveyed. He's also very funny.
And when he rolls up his sleeves like in this article, it's VERY enlightening.
And when he rolls up his sleeves like in this article, it's VERY enlightening.
Thoughtful perspective using news reports about US from Korea/UK/Germany:
"In the international perspective, people aren't really Republican or Democrat in other countries. It's just not like that. We can just see... from an objective point of view. It's pretty obvious the Trump people are lying."
"In the international perspective, people aren't really Republican or Democrat in other countries. It's just not like that. We can just see... from an objective point of view. It's pretty obvious the Trump people are lying."
January 25, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Thoughtful perspective using news reports about US from Korea/UK/Germany:
"In the international perspective, people aren't really Republican or Democrat in other countries. It's just not like that. We can just see... from an objective point of view. It's pretty obvious the Trump people are lying."
"In the international perspective, people aren't really Republican or Democrat in other countries. It's just not like that. We can just see... from an objective point of view. It's pretty obvious the Trump people are lying."
Journalists headed to Minneapolis:
I checked in with @acatwithnews.bsky.social who's on the ground. Good tips. 👇
A) Brace for EXTREME cold. Sean's from Milwaulkee. Even he called it "WTF level of cold."
B) Chemical spray may render gear unusable. Destroyed his mittens, which are vital.
🧵 1/5
I checked in with @acatwithnews.bsky.social who's on the ground. Good tips. 👇
A) Brace for EXTREME cold. Sean's from Milwaulkee. Even he called it "WTF level of cold."
B) Chemical spray may render gear unusable. Destroyed his mittens, which are vital.
🧵 1/5
Minneapolis, MN -
I got absolutely covered in spray. Really grateful to some protesters who have helped remove the dousing all over one of my jackets, face and camera. Regardless of how you feel about the protests, these people are incredibly kind.
I got absolutely covered in spray. Really grateful to some protesters who have helped remove the dousing all over one of my jackets, face and camera. Regardless of how you feel about the protests, these people are incredibly kind.
January 25, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Journalists headed to Minneapolis:
I checked in with @acatwithnews.bsky.social who's on the ground. Good tips. 👇
A) Brace for EXTREME cold. Sean's from Milwaulkee. Even he called it "WTF level of cold."
B) Chemical spray may render gear unusable. Destroyed his mittens, which are vital.
🧵 1/5
I checked in with @acatwithnews.bsky.social who's on the ground. Good tips. 👇
A) Brace for EXTREME cold. Sean's from Milwaulkee. Even he called it "WTF level of cold."
B) Chemical spray may render gear unusable. Destroyed his mittens, which are vital.
🧵 1/5
Sean is well known for his OTG in Los Angeles, but has been getting out to a number of cities. He's currently covering in Minneapolis, here's his running thread. 👇
Greetings! I’m in Minneapolis today in sight where federal agents have shot a man reportedly during a federal immigration raid. Things are tense, there’s chemical irritant in the air and people are arriving en masse.
January 25, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Sean is well known for his OTG in Los Angeles, but has been getting out to a number of cities. He's currently covering in Minneapolis, here's his running thread. 👇
Mel is great for OTG coverage and is in downtown Los Angeles tonight where protests are starting to focus in on the Metropolitan Detention Center. 👇
I’m out here in Los Angeles, where hundreds have gathered in response to the ICE execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Chants and speeches underway here outside the Federal Building in DTLA. Working multiple cameras today so posts may be sparse
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Mel is great for OTG coverage and is in downtown Los Angeles tonight where protests are starting to focus in on the Metropolitan Detention Center. 👇
Growing protests in Minneapolis, Portland and Los Angeles this evening.
Here's a single live feed that displays multiple streamers at once. Useful if you're trying to monitor incidents and use of force as things unfold.
Ideal to support individual streamers, but this is a service unto itself!
Here's a single live feed that displays multiple streamers at once. Useful if you're trying to monitor incidents and use of force as things unfold.
Ideal to support individual streamers, but this is a service unto itself!
01/24/26 - ICE Raids Protests Nationwide - WOKE.NET
YouTube video by WOKE
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Growing protests in Minneapolis, Portland and Los Angeles this evening.
Here's a single live feed that displays multiple streamers at once. Useful if you're trying to monitor incidents and use of force as things unfold.
Ideal to support individual streamers, but this is a service unto itself!
Here's a single live feed that displays multiple streamers at once. Useful if you're trying to monitor incidents and use of force as things unfold.
Ideal to support individual streamers, but this is a service unto itself!
"This is an image of universal moral urgency, akin to a small number of photographs that once upon a time had the power to change our behavior, away from cruelty or indifference and in the direction of basic decency."
Poigniant reflections about power of photojournalism, as art and as history. 📷 👇
Poigniant reflections about power of photojournalism, as art and as history. 📷 👇
The image of Liam Ramos in ICE custody, staring at the back of a truck like we are all now staring into the abyss... it shocks the conscience. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
Column | The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE
An image like this could once change history. Can one still?
www.washingtonpost.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:09 AM
"This is an image of universal moral urgency, akin to a small number of photographs that once upon a time had the power to change our behavior, away from cruelty or indifference and in the direction of basic decency."
Poigniant reflections about power of photojournalism, as art and as history. 📷 👇
Poigniant reflections about power of photojournalism, as art and as history. 📷 👇
Reposted by Adam Rose
ATHENS, GA – The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) today reiterated its firm opposition to the manipulation of journalistic images that mislead the public, particularly when such manipulation is conducted or disseminated by government entities.
January 23, 2026 at 9:36 PM
ATHENS, GA – The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) today reiterated its firm opposition to the manipulation of journalistic images that mislead the public, particularly when such manipulation is conducted or disseminated by government entities.
I'm a big advocate for more police training. Notably LAPD, which I helped get a federal injunction against. I also helped get federal injunction against ICE & CBP.
But I always tie it back to culture. Messaging, discipline, and training are among factors.
Training can't address this ICE culture.
But I always tie it back to culture. Messaging, discipline, and training are among factors.
Training can't address this ICE culture.
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
I'm a big advocate for more police training. Notably LAPD, which I helped get a federal injunction against. I also helped get federal injunction against ICE & CBP.
But I always tie it back to culture. Messaging, discipline, and training are among factors.
Training can't address this ICE culture.
But I always tie it back to culture. Messaging, discipline, and training are among factors.
Training can't address this ICE culture.
US spent who-knows-how-much to chase alleged jewel thief down in Panama and bring back for trial.
In SAME case, another suspect was in US for trial but ICE deported him to Ecuador.
Maybe legit policy debate on what's better for justice?
Instead of having it, feds just shooting each other in foot.
In SAME case, another suspect was in US for trial but ICE deported him to Ecuador.
Maybe legit policy debate on what's better for justice?
Instead of having it, feds just shooting each other in foot.
Man Accused in $100 Million Jewel Heist Is Deported, Thwarting Trial
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:28 PM
US spent who-knows-how-much to chase alleged jewel thief down in Panama and bring back for trial.
In SAME case, another suspect was in US for trial but ICE deported him to Ecuador.
Maybe legit policy debate on what's better for justice?
Instead of having it, feds just shooting each other in foot.
In SAME case, another suspect was in US for trial but ICE deported him to Ecuador.
Maybe legit policy debate on what's better for justice?
Instead of having it, feds just shooting each other in foot.