ICE agents broke the arm of U.S. citizen Ricardo Gonzalez during a violent detention in Long Beach, proving that federal impunity now targets anyone in the path of a deportation machine.
As Tropical Storm Rachel battered Long Beach, city leaders tapped emergency reserves to patch private bulkheads, leaving displaced renters and broken budgets to shoulder the cost of coastal collapse.
Long Beach ordered evacuations on the Peninsula after storm swells flooded homes, exposing a municipal government that relies on sandbags rather than repairing its broken breakwater.