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Troops dug in at huge steel mill despite a midday deadline to surrender from Moscow

An investigation by The Guardian found many large California cities spent more COVID-19 Economic Relief Funds on law enforcement than on rent relief and health services.

There are plenty of contested districts to track.

Environmental advocates say even California’s response to the warming planet has not been good enough.

The Guardian reports that California cities spent a large chunk of their COVID relief money on police departments. Given the effects of COVID on police departments, the mass resignations and retirements of officers across the country, and the surge in homicides, that is completely unsurprising.

Mistakenly shot a 14-year-old girl in a dressing room. valentina orellana-peralta died after police opened fire on a suspect in a burlington coat factory. she was trying on holiday dresses with her mother when she was struck by a stray bullet and killed. its been a brutal end to the year for the lapd. the department has killed 18 people in 2021, more than twice the number of 2020. the author of that reporting joins me now. los angeles correspondent for "the guardian," sam levin. >> thanks for ha...

>> weve seen five people killed by the los angeles police department in just nine days this month, a devastating month for the loss of life at the hands of the lapd. weve seen a massive increase this year in shootings of civilians by lapd. there are a lot of concerns about the tactics police are using and their ability to de-escalate situations. there are a lot of concerns about the tactics. >> sam, lets talk about what we saw at the coat factory, the burlington coat factory. the surveillance vi...

Gun, he didnt have anything in his hand except this bike lock. there are questions why fatal force was used so quickly when in the video it appeared he didnt make any commands, he didnt tell the individual anything, he just quickly shot almost as soon as he saw him. so i think there are questions about those tactics as well as the specific equipment that lapd brings into a situation like this. >> questions about training. how has the lapd responded to your reporting? have they? >> they have not ...

A recently leaked memo on police training in Israel confirms what activists in Seattle have known all along - the ADL is not an ally for racial justice.

A leaked memo revealed that ADL leaders had debated ending their controversial police delegations to Israel two years ago. Activists say the memo shows why progressive groups should cut ties with the organization.