With troops and protests, Trump’s feud with California moves to the streets of LA
CALMatters, NIGEL DUARA/JEANNE KUANG: "When he took office, President Donald Trump made every indication that California’s politics and policies were directly in his sights. He started with a list of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, a designation that includes the entire state, and promised to defund them.
Since then, he has challenged California’s approach to the environment, health care, education and LGBTQ rights, mostly in federal court – there are four pending lawsuits titled “State of California v. Trump,” and another 16 that the state has joined against the president."
L.A. protests bring scattered violence, arrests, steely resolve from federal authorities
LAT, STAFF: "An ugly night of vandalism, burglaries and clashes in downtown Los Angeles left city officials struggling to get the upper hand after three days of scattered unrest over immigration raids.
Some businesses were vandalized and burglarized overnight downtown, concluding hours of unrest that saw Waymo cars burned, police cruisers crushed with rocks and electric scooters and various forms of vandalism downtown and in the civic center. While most of the problems occurred within a few blocks, they have taken on worldwide attention after President Trump deployed the National Guard to L.A. after clashes between immigration agents and protesters."
60 arrested in S.F. as protest against National Guard troops turns chaotic
Chronicle, DAVID HERNANDEZ and J.D. MORRIS: "Sixty people were arrested Sunday night in downtown San Francisco after a protest against President Donald Trump’s immigration raids became chaotic amid his extraordinary deployment of federal troops hundreds of miles away in Southern California.
The protest started peacefully around 6 p.m. near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Sansome Street, but within an hour it had grown into a tense standoff between demonstrators and police. While many in the crowd of hundreds departed after officers declared an unlawful assembly, some continued marching through streets before officers began making arrests several hours later on Montgomery Street."
L.A. officials struggle to curb ‘disgusting’ vandalism, thefts, fires, violence in downtown L.A.
LAT, STAFF: "An ugly night of vandalism, burglaries and clashes in downtown Los Angeles left city officials struggling to get the upper hand after three days of scattered unrest over immigration raids.
Some businesses were vandalized and burglarized overnight downtown, concluding hours of unrest that saw Waymo cars burned, police cruisers crushed with rocks and electric scooters and various forms of vandalism downtown and in the civic center. While most of the problems occurred within a few blocks, they have taken on worldwide attention after President Trump deployed the National Guard to L.A. after clashes between immigration agents and protesters."
‘Everybody stood up’: Why a union leader’s arrest galvanized California Democrats on immigration
CALMatters, JEANNE KUANG: "The union leader federal agents detained at an immigration protest in Los Angeles last week is well known to California’s Democratic leadership from his years of activism in and out of the Capitol.
That’s one reason so many leading Democrats jumped to his defense."
Paramount, a proud Latino suburb, thrust into center of Trump crackdown
LAT, NATHAN SOLIS/MELODY PETERSEN: "Jessica Juarez walked along Alondra Boulevard with a trash bag full of spent gas canisters, her voice hoarse as she helped clean her community with other residents Sunday morning.
The volunteers were parents and neighbors in Paramount, armed with plastic bags, latex gloves and face masks."
California car buyers face a 600% higher fee under a bill the Senate just passed
CALMatters, RYAN SABALOW/JEANNE KUANG: "The California Senate overwhelmingly – and with bipartisan support – approved legislation that would allow car dealers to charge buyers up to $500 extra on each vehicle purchase, a blatant departure from promises both parties made this year to lower costs for Californians.
The bill’s opponents said they were shocked senators would disregard their pledge by adding more “junk fees.”'
California SEIU president out of hospital, in custody after immigration protest
SacBee, IA RUSSELL: "David Huerta, the president of California’s powerful public sector union, was released from the hospital but remained in federal custody Saturday after suffering injuries when federal officials arrested him during a protest.
Federal agents arrested Huerta on Friday for allegedly interfering with law enforcement activity as he and members of SEIU California, SEIU-United Service Workers West and immigrant advocacy and labor groups protested immigration raids that took place around downtown Los Angeles earlier that day."
An earthquake just off California’s coast poses dire tsunami risk for many communities
LAT, RONG-GONG LIN II/GRACE TOOHEY: "California does not often experience dangerous tsunamis, but there is one type of ocean surge some experts are increasingly concerned about.
Near-shore tsunamis — those triggered by earthquakes just offshore — could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s heavily populated coastal communities, according to experts, disaster modeling and local hazard plans."
L.A. Olympic organizers confident they will cover estimated $7.1 billion cost of Games
LAT, THUC NHI NGUYEN/DAKOTA SMITH: 'Three years before the Olympics, LA28 organizers gave International Olympic Committee officials the kind of Games preview that even Hollywood’s best scriptwriters couldn’t plan.
To begin a visit to check on LA28’s planning progress, the IOC coordination commission attended a game at Dodger Stadium and watched Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off double in the 10th inning to defeat the New York Mets in the same stadium that will host Olympic baseball in three years."
Exclusive: Head of S.F. nonprofit going on hunger strike to protest Lurie’s budget cuts
Chronicle, ALDO TOLEDO: "For most of June, Adrian Tirtanadi plans to go hungry. After weeks of imploring Mayor Daniel Lurie not to make $4.2 million in cuts to legal services in his new budget, Tirtanadi — head of the legal services nonprofit Open Door Legal — told the Chronicle he’s going on a hunger strike for the next few weeks.
Since opening the nonprofit 12 years ago, Tirtanadi has helped hundreds of people stay out of homelessness, leave violent domestic partners or stave off an eviction. But Lurie’s just released budget proposal would cut $2.2 million in funding to the firm, a roughly 44% decrease in its “city-supported operations” that could force 15 layoffs. The city cuts are expected to hit about half a dozen other legal aid agencies as well."
‘Everybody is scared:’ Trump’s travel ban leaves Bay Area residents on edge
Chronicle, SARAH RAVANI: "Hundreds of people arrived at Raimondi Park in West Oakland on Friday morning to pray in observance of Eid al-Adha, a Muslim celebration. Men lined up on a massive white tarp on the baseball field, removing their shoes and laying down their prayer rugs. Women did the same but in a smaller section under a white tent.
As people arrived, Ali Albasiery, a business owner and president of the As-Salam Mosque in Oakland, greeted them with a smile, a pat on the back and a kiss on the cheek."
Audit slams Sacramento NAACP for COVID fraud. Why did county fail to catch it?
SacBee, JOE RUBIN and DARRELL SMITH: "An audit of a pandemic-era Sacramento County meals program details how former, ousted leaders of the Greater Sacramento NAACP enriched themselves and their handpicked contractors at the expense of the multimillion-dollar program, restaurant owners and the people it sought to serve.
Now the chapter guided by new leaders, along with the national civil rights organization, is left to confront the county’s insistence that the venerable civil rights organization repay the money."
Gavin Newsom condemns National Guard deployment amid ICE raids, protests in LA
SacBee, LIA RUSSELL: "Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday evening criticized federal officials’ decision to deploy 2,000 members of the California National Guard to the Los Angeles area as “purposefully inflammatory.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deployed flash grenades and tear gas to disperse a protest at a Home Depot in Paramount, where people had gathered to protest a series of raids immigration officials had carried out around the city on Friday. SEIU California union president David Huerta, a frequent Newsom ally, was injured while protesting Friday and remained in federal custody over the weekend."
What’s on the line as California approaches budget deadline?
SacBee, KATE WOLFFE: "One thing to watch will be how the Medi-Cal program for undocumented Californians evolves. Medi-Cal is the government-funded health care for very low income people.
After the governor released his revised budget in May, there was significant legislative uproar over the suggested changes, which included an enrollment freeze and new $100 monthly premiums. The 33-member Legislative Latino Caucus came out strong against the cuts. Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, said legislative leaders have made “some progress” to modify the plan. “I think there is a consensus on both sides they don’t want this budget balanced on the backs of our most vulnerable Californians,” she said."
