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Yvette Cabrera
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2025-2026 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT; Climate & environmental justice reporter; 2024 Ted Talks speaker; NAHJ immediate past president; Uproot Project founding member. https://publicintegrity.org/author/ycabrerapublicintegrity-org/
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And congrats to @carlasamonros.bsky.social & @johannahansel.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org and @heyhelina.bsky.social & @jgasspoore.bsky.social for @nyamnews.bsky.social whose projects focus on lithium mining and extreme heat in NYC, respectively. We look forward to promoting your work!
July 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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July 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser:

“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”
June 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Flashpoints when police in LA violated press rights during crowd control:

2000 DNC
2007 May Day Melee
2010 Occupy Movement
2020 BLM
2021 Echo Park
2020 Abortion Rights

2024 they stood by and didn't protect press being horrifically assaulted by Israel-Palestine protesters

2025 ICE Protests
June 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Again, this doesn't explain it all. But it's important. Press rights groups, whose members suffer at the hands of ill-trained officers in these situations, have asked LAPD command staff for more training since at least 2021.

As last LAPD chief said, "Culture eats policy for lunch." There's history.
June 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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In 2020, Los Angeles City Council commissioned the Chaleff Report about BLM protests. Appendix 13 (pg 97) has a history of crowd control training.

LAPD trainers have been calling to add more hours on crowd control for DECADES. Instead, it just gets cut back.

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2003: When the lesson plan was modified to five hours, the use of force section and the media section were removed from the lesson plan. Metropolitan Division instructors voiced concerns about the inadequate time now allotted for the two vastly different subject matters. However, the training proceeded. It was also incorporated into the Supervisory Development School in 2003. The lesson plan did not cover three critical areas: use of force, when the use of the baton is warranted during crowd control situations, and, policy related to the media at crowd management incidents. 2004: Amid rising concern over crime suppression and field deployment needs, much of the "non- required" training was scaled back at the request of Office of Operations. The chief of police supported the reduction of "non-required" training to allow for a strong focus on Consent Decree training compliance and crime suppression. Mobile field force training for in-service officers was not mandated by the Department or State and, therefore, was not a priority and was among the many training courses that were scaled back. 2005: The Office of Operations director halted the Basic Metro Course and scaled back Metropolitan Division’s regularly scheduled monthly training from two days per month to one due to a growing concern over crime suppression. The cut back of training allowed for Metropolitan Division to be deployed in crime suppression details and assist other commands throughout the City. The Chief of Police approved the recommendation to scale back training with the understanding that the subject should be revisited periodically. By 2005, the information regarding the media policy was added back into the lesson plan during the annual update. Few officers or supervisors attended training conducted with this lesson plan. 2006: As the Department continued to struggle with more officers retiring than new hires coming into the Academy, mobile field force training was sidelined altogether. The Metropolitan Division Basic course remained shut down. Miscellaneous Training Information MacArthur Park After Action Report 2007 • To date (July 2007) every sworn employee in the Department had received training on the use of force policy on more than one occasion and had been trained on the techniques and appropriate use of the baton as it pertains to use of force policy. • Traditionally, Metropolitan Division platoons were allowed two training days every four weeks - one firearms and one tactics. Since 2004, Metropolitan Division platoons were generally allowed to conduct one tactics training day and one firearms training day every four weeks, January through May, and only one training day, June through December. On several occasions the training day(s) were cancelled as a result of special assignments and/or pre-planned events. A review of the tactics training day topics generally focused on dignitary protection duties and other tactics not related to crowd control events. 2013-2014: Some crowd management training was conducted through e-learning for line personnel. Incident command system and crowd management training occurred in the command staff quarterly training each year. Additionally, a program was introduced to address concerns over succession planning for command staff called Conversations in 21st Century Policing. These were seminars offered to all command level personnel and lieutenants in which panels discussed topics such as crowd management/facilitations, building community relationships, etc. This program appears to have been discontinued in 2015 without any documentation as to why. 2015-2016: Training Bureau planned a Department-wide rollout of mobile field force/crowd management training. However, when this plan discussed with executive staff the training was tabled per the Office of Operations assistant chief and the Chief of Police to address deployment needs and the rising concern over issues surrounding use of force, de-escalation, and crime trends. 2017-2018: Training Bureau again raised the issue of conducting Department-wide mobile field force/crowd control training with executive staff. At that time, a decision was made to take the eight-hour and 10-hour courses approved by the State and the Department and condense it into a four- hour block to accommodate other training needs. Over 9,200 personnel were trained. 2019-2020: Training Bureau again raised the issue of conducting Department-wide mobile field force/crowd control training with executive staff with no decision to plan for a Department-wide rollout in 2019. In 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic had engulfed the deployment needs of the Department and created restrictions on training. Therefore, most training was tabled.
June 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM