Santa Monica to Construct $1M Per Unit Apartment Building for Homeless
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Breitbart ^
| 04/23/2024 | ELIZABETH WEIBEL
Santa Monica, California, is preparing to construct an apartment building for the homeless that would cost roughly $1 million per unit. The
apartment building, which will be built in Santa Monica and will be home to “122 apartments” and two levels of underground parking, will cost more than $123 million, according to the website for the City of Santa Monica. A second design concept on the website found that the project could cost even more, totaling more than $200 million for 196 apartments.
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Antisemitic Graffiti, Swastikas Found in Left-wing Santa Monica, California
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Breitbart ^
| 04/08/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
Police are investigating swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti found in the left-wing beach town of Santa Monica, California, which prides itself on its “progressive” politics. The
local Santa Monica Daily Press reported: The Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) is actively investigating multiple reports of anti-Semitic graffiti discovered in various locations throughout the city, including the Pico neighborhood (2100-2300 Pico Blvd) marking sidewalks, trees and light posts. In a statement, the SMPD expressed its unequivocal condemnation of these hateful acts. “This behavior deeply offends the values of our inclusive community and will not be tolerated.”
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In Los Angeles, striking hotel workers have alleged that hotels in Santa Monica and near LAX have been replacing them with migrant workers, including some who are homeless.
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Twitter - X - / CitizenFreePress ^
| 5:41 PM · Oct 24, 2023 | Staff
Post See new posts Conversation HumanDilemma @HumanDilemma_ 🚨 In Los Angeles, striking hotel workers have alleged that hotels in Santa Monica and near LAX have been replacing them with migrant workers, including some who are homeless. 👀 The workers claim that this practice has violated age and child labor laws. Stay
tuned for further developments. Follow and keep updated. VIDEO AT LINK.....................
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Man claiming to have a suicide bomb on Santa Monica pier Ferris wheel is yanked down by cops
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^
| PUBLISHED: 18:44 EDT, 9 October 2023 | UPDATED: 20:02 EDT, 9 October 2023 | By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Man claiming to have a suicide bomb on Santa Monica pier Ferris wheel is yanked down by cops after he sparked an evacuation and left families with kids stranded in mid-air - as tensions are heightened in the wake of the Israel terror attack A man claiming to have a bomb climbed
the Ferris wheel on Santa Monica pier, and stayed there for two hours before he descended and was arrested Santa Monica police got the first call at 2:35pm and cordoned off the pier: he climbed down around 4:30pm, and police confirmed there were no explosives A cherry picker...
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11-year-old arrested for armed robbery in Santa Monica
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KTLA ^
| October 7, 2023 | by: Vivian Chow
An 11-year-old boy was arrested after an attempted armed robbery with a knife in Santa Monica. The incident took place on Oct. 2 near the 1300 block of Santa Monica Beach around 9:30 a.m., according to Santa Monica police. The
victim, who frequently visits the beach area, said he was sitting in his truck when he noticed two suspects, an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old, approaching his truck bed. Inside the bed was a bicycle he had tied down. The 11-year-old suspect approached the truck while holding a knife near his chest, authorities said. Both juveniles eventually fled the area but...
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Elon Musk calls his transgender daughter Vivian a 'communist' who thinks 'anyone rich is evil' and accuses private Santa Monica high school Crossroads of brainwashing her (his son)
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Daily Mail ^
| 8-31-23 | KEITH GRIFFITH
Elon Musk has spoken out about his painful estrangement from his transgender daughter, calling her a 'communist' and blaming her politics on the expensive private high school she attended. Musk's
now 19-year-old child last year legally changed her gender to female and her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson, saying in court filings that she 'no longer wishes to be related' to the billionaire Tesla CEO 'in any way.' In an excerpt from his upcoming biography of Musk published on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, author Walter Isaacson wrote that Musk's rift with Vivian 'pained him more than anything in...
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Lionsgate Reinstates Mask Mandate In Parts Of Santa Monica Office Following Covid Outbreak
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Deadline.com ^
Amid rising Covid cases in Los Angeles, Lionsgate has brought back the mask mandate for nearly half of the company’s employees at its flagship office at 2700 Colorado Ave. in Santa Monica. The policy change was announced internally by Sommer McElroy, Response Manager for Lionsgate/Starz, in an email, a copy of which
was obtained by Deadline. Implemented in response to several employees recently testing positive for Covid, it involves a mandatory mask mandate effective immediately and until further notice for the 3rd and 5th floors of the five-story building, the email said. “Employees must wear a medical grade face covering...
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Homeless man attacks Santa Monica councilman after he is asked to stop littering
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NY Post ^
| 07/19/2023 | Isabel Keane
A homeless man attacked a Santa Monica city councilman who asked him to stop littering, in an incident that was captured on video. While
walking at the Third Street Promenade, a popular shopping and dining area, on Sunday, Santa Monica city councilman Phil Brock noticed a homeless man ripping signs off boarded-up storefronts and tossing them on the ground. Brock approached the man, identified by authorities as Sawyer Walden Allee, and asked if he could throw the signs away instead of littering. Allee, 20, responded with obscenities, so Brock threw garbage out himself, KTLA reported.
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Santa Monica tests AI cameras for parking tickets
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KTLA ^
| 7/17/23 | Rich DeMuro
It’s an issue for cities across America: cars parked in bus lanes when they shouldn’t be. Now,
new AI camera technology is letting the buses themselves write tickets instantly. Santa Monica recently tested the technology with their Big Blue Bus Line. Last year, they provided 7.7 million trips, but not all were on schedule due to cars improperly parked or stopped in dedicated bus lanes. Snip During Santa Monica’s 45-day pilot, the system identified more than 500 potential violations. Each fine is nearly $300 dollars. “We don’t make any more or any less depending on the number of violations that...
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Metro rider violently beaten by eight teenagers at Santa Monica station
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Santa Monica Daily Press ^
| April 27, 2023
Eric Lewis has been taking Metro’s Expo train from Downtown Los Angeles to his job in Santa Monica every day undisturbed for the past three years until April 19 at 11:15 a.m. when he was attacked and violently beaten by eight juvenile males. Lewis
said it all began when some of the young men began delaying the train by preventing the doors from closing near the last stop. The suspects were taking pictures causing commuters on the packed train, including himself, to plead with the boys to “stop holding the doors open, get back on the train, we’re going to...
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2 killed when small plane crashes at Santa Monica [CA] Airport
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sfgate.com ^
| Sep. 8, 2022
There were two people aboard and both were killed, The plane was a Piper Sport, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The
FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate. The airport’s single runway sits amid residential neighborhoods in the city of more than 90,000 on the Pacific Ocean. City leaders and many residents advocate closing the airport, citing noise and safety concerns. KABC
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Maria Shriver looks unrecognizable while visiting new home in Santa Monica
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Page Six.com ^
| 8/25/2022 | Nicki Cox
Maria Shriver looked unrecognizable while out and about over the weekend. The
former first lady of California was photographed in Santa Monica, Calif., sporting a new look while seemingly going makeup-free. In photos obtained by Page Six exclusively, the 66-year-old headed to her car after stopping by the construction site where she is building a new home. While Shriver seemed to be in great spirits, her face looked different than it has in recent years. The niece of the late President John F. Kennedy kept things casual in black leggings, a purple T-shirt and a pair of gray sneakers. Shriver...
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Australian actress reported missing by family arrested in Santa Monica after allegedly biting officer
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ktla ^
| Aug 16, 2022 / 01:15 PM PDT | Cindy Von Quednow
An Australian actress who had been reported missing by her family had actually been arrested by police in Santa Monica after she allegedly bit an officer who responded to an altercation at a restaurant. McCulloch’s
family had reported her missing to the Los Angeles Police Department and had asked for the public’s help finding her. A GoFundMe page created to help in the search indicated she was had been getting ready for a date with a person she met on Tinder or Bumble. In one post, her family had said McCulloch was last seen at Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ, which is...
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USPS BANS deliveries to wealthy Santa Monica neighborhood because of multiple attacks on mail carriers, as woke LA DA George Gascon faces heat over spiraling crime
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Daily Mail ^
| 4/12/22 | Janon Fisher
Santa Monica police arrested the man suspected of assaulting or harassing three letter carriers in a three-month period - but he is back on the street because authorities say his crimes aren't enough to keep him behind bars. Residents
of the 1300 block of 14th Street haven't gotten their mail for half a week because of three attacks by Davon Ray Morgan, 38, on postal workers since January, according to the United States Postal Service. 'Delivery is temp suspended; this is an unusual, but a necessary step to protect our employees,' USPS spokeswoman Natasha Garvin tweeted on Monday. **SNIP** Jim...
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Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and Hollywood Hills elites are arming up: Gun-grabbing D.A. George Gascon is quite the gun salesman.
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American Thinker ^
| 01/01/2022 | Monica Showalter
After decades of blaming gun on the streets for violent crime, and elections of district attorneys who actually believe that crap, Hollywood's elites are finally getting religion on gun ownership.They're arming up. According
to the Daily Mail:As Long Angeles crime spirals out of control, even some of the city's wealthiest residents have flocked to Beverly Hills' only gun store to buy firearms to protect themselves and their belongings.Beverly Hills Guns first opened by appointment only in July 2020, and has seen upscale residents from Santa Monica to the Hollywood Hills increasingly in a panic following some high-profile smash and grabs...
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'Is the groom around?' Tom Hanks makes faux-pas as he crashes gay "wedding" on Santa Monica beach(Barf alert)
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Daily Mail ^
| 28th October 2021 | Brian Marks
Tom Hanks awkwardly put his foot in his mouth as he questioned 'where's the groom?' while crashing a same-sex wedding on Santa Monica beach over the weekend - before quickly realising his error. The
guests burst into laughter as the Oscar winner, 65, asked to take a picture with the bride and groom after accidentally walking into their ceremony, only to realise it was a same-sex union. After realising his mistake, Tom shouted 'Oh get out, my stock just exploded!', before putting his arms around the two brides, Diciembre and Tashia Farries, to pose for a photograph. The newlyweds later...
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Video shows Tom Hanks ‘crashing’ [lesbian ceremony] in Santa Monica
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Fake News WTNH-TV ^
| 10/26/2021
... Tom Hanks made a surprise appearance at a couple’s wedding in Santa Monica, California, last week... “We were gathering all the family together, and next thing you know, Tom Hanks walks through the whole crowd and said, ‘Hey, I just had to stop and see these beautiful brides,'” Tashia Farries told
KTLA. “He asked for a picture. He said it was one of the most beautiful ceremonies that he’s witnessed, and he stuck around for about five minutes...
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Several hundred gather in Santa Monica to protest against proposed vaccine mandates
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News Nation USA ^
| August 29, 2021 | Liam Cole
A crowd of several hundred people, many carrying American flags and holding signs that read, “No jabs for jobs” and “Stop the medical tyranny,” gathered near Santa Monica’s pier Sunday to push back against proposed COVID-19 vaccination mandates. Held
in a park off a busy stretch of Ocean Avenue, the gathering — billed as a “worldwide rally for freedom” — appeared half political rally and half religious gathering. Organizers led the group in prayers and attendees milled at booths to learn about recall attempts of several Democrats, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascon. A...
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Black Lives Matter Sues Santa Monica, a Year After Riots Devastate City
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Breitbart ^
| 30 Jun 2021 | JOEL B. POLLAK
The Los Angeles branch of Black Lives Matter filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Santa Monica, California, on Monday, a year after rioters and looters rampaged through the downtown area alongside an anti-police protest on May 31, 2020. As
Breitbart News reported last year: “While several hundred demonstrators participated in a peaceful march along Ocean Boulevard to voice outrage at the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, hundreds of looters terrorized nearby stores.” The only stores to stave off looters were guarded by armed civilians. Graffiti was sprayed all over government and...
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New lawsuit alleges L.A., Santa Monica, Beverly Hills used curfews to crush legitimate protest
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LA Times via MSN ^
| 3/01/21 | Kevin Rector
More than 40 people arrested in Los Angeles County for curfew violations during last summer's mass protests have alleged in a new lawsuit that the curfews were an unconstitutional and coordinated tactic by the county, several local cities and their police forces to stifle legitimate political speech against police violence. The
lawsuit alleges a slate of violations of the protesters' constitutional and civil rights, assault and battery, false imprisonment, negligence and the intentional infliction of emotional distress, and calls the curfew a "tool of oppression" used by government actors to suppress the truth and shore up false narratives about American...
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