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Rain maybe! Dodger Stadium becomes the biggest vaccination site in the country. When can you get one? Are there more restrictions coming? LAPD and LASD participate in an attempted coup. More information on the deputy who killed Andres Guardado. And looking ahead to Wednesday’s inauguration, Mitch Englander’s sentencing, and whether John Lee will ever be held accountable.
As City Councilmember Mitchell Englander drove in furtive circles through the thicket of one-way streets downtown, he turned to his passenger and whispered under the din of the radio. Moments before, he had boosted the volume to an ache-inducing roar, the better to hide his words if someone happened to be listening. It was imperative that no one should hear him roughly coaching the man sitting next to him to deliver short rehearsible falsehoods:
“You just say ‘I was so drunk I don’t remember calling.’”
“‘No I didn’t arrange a massage for anybody.’”
“‘He shook my hand and said hello, that was it.’”
“‘He asked me a couple times how much does he owe me, he and John owe me, and I didn’t have an amount.’”
“‘…he and John owe me…’”
“‘…he and John…’”
Englander: “I couldn’t be happier… we couldn’t ask for a better representative for CD12.” Quote and screen capture from Councilmember John Lee’s Public Swearing-In Ceremony.
The passenger, Andy Wang, a purveyor of […]
Continue ReadingRain maybe! Dodger Stadium becomes the biggest vaccination site in the country. When can you get one? Are there more restrictions coming? LAPD and LASD participate in an attempted coup. More information on the deputy who killed Andres Guardado. And looking ahead to Wednesday’s inauguration, Mitch Englander’s sentencing, and whether John Lee will ever be held accountable.
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