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CBS News
28-06-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Los Angeles volunteers look to clean up, rehab the image of downtown after ICE protests
Earlier this year, Mayor Karen Bass launched the "Shine LA" initiative, aiming to clean up the streets of Los Angeles before the world takes a closer look during the 2026 FIFA World Cup and 2028 Summer Olympics. The clean-ups were organized to take place once a month. While volunteers from around L.A. were scheduled to only work in parts of Hollywood on Saturday, a last-minute addition was made to the schedule. Following this month's immigration protests that primarily took place downtown, hundreds of volunteers took to the streets to make the neighborhood look shiny and clean. Some participants hope the effort can help to rehabilitate the image of downtown L.A. to those who think it's unsafe or dirty from afar. "What we are really challenged with now is the perception of downtown," said Central City Association CEO Nella McOskar. "Downtown is a safe, exciting, dynamic place to be. So those of you who are watching and seeing images of downtown Los Angeles, know that it's open for business." A row of Waymo vehicles burn on a street during an anti-ICE protest in downtown Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2025. Benjamin Hanson/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images) Images from the protests downtown earlier this month show burning cars, looted businesses and walls vandalized with spray paint. But McOskar and public officials like Bass insist that much of those actions came from opportunists who saw peaceful protests and decided to cause chaos. Los Angeles Chief of Police Jim McDonnell said the protests were at times "hijacked by violence, vandalism, and criminal aggression." In the effort to restore downtown L.A. on Saturday, hundreds of volunteers scrubbed the spray paint and picked up trash. More Shine LA events will be announced in the coming days and weeks on the initiative's website.
Fox News
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
LA Mayor Bass Wants You to Clean up Graffiti
LA Mayor Karen Bass is calling on city residents to clean up the graffiti and litter left behind by her mostly peaceful arsonists and vandals. I'm Tomi Lahren, more next. LA Mayor Karen Bass was seen last week in a viral, yet totally staged video, supposedly cleaning up graffiti left in downtown LA by her 'mostly peaceful' anti-ICE rioters. But that photo opp didn't last long so this weekend she's asking you, Angelenos, to pick up the slack. You cannot make this stuff up. Bass' office really sent out an email blast call to action to the community to volunteer to go clean up the vandalism, litter and graffiti left behind by her anti-ICE mostly peaceful arsonists and vandals. The event is dubbed 'Shine LA!' How inspirational! Though her rioters did cause a lot of damage and destruction, given how bad downtown LA is, just on the daily, you can't even really tell the difference. Isn't that sad? I hate to spoil it for her but her Angelenos don't assemble to clean graffiti, they only assemble to create it and burn cars while waving foreign flags! But again, time to SHINE LA! I'm Tomi Lahren and you watch my show 'Tomi Lahren is Fearless' at Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
The Star
08-05-2025
- Sport
- The Star
Olympics-LA Games give city an opportunity to improve, Mayor Bass says
FILE PHOTO: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass poses for a photo during an interview at Los Angeles City Hall, California, U.S., October 17, 2024. REUTERS/Rory Carroll/File Photo LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles will be ready to welcome the world when it hosts the Olympics in 2028 and will use the time leading up to the opening ceremony to improve the city, LA Mayor Karen Bass said on Thursday. Games organizers LA28 revealed earlier in the day that Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood would host the opening ceremony in an unprecedented dual-venue celebration, marking another milestone in planning. "Our city and our country is going through challenging times right now but the Games present a unique opportunity for all of us to come together and work with urgency to better our city," Bass said at a press conference at Memorial Coliseum. "This is the only time the world comes together as one and I know that we will leave a lasting legacy for generations to come." Bass said Memorial Coliseum would serve as the "heartbeat" for a Games that will stretch from the San Fernando Valley in the north to Trestles Beach in the south with competitions in downtown LA, Long Beach, Universal Studios and beyond. "The entire city will be on display," she said. To that end Bass has launched Shine LA, a program that brings communities together to beautify neighborhoods block by block. "Whether we are planting trees or painting or sprucing up our schools, we're going to come together and prepare for the world," Bass said. Los Angeles was hit by a series of devastating wildfires in January that reduced entire neighborhoods to ash, leaving some to wonder if it was wise for the city to host the mega-sporting event. California Governor Gavin Newsom has referred to the Games as the "Recovery Games" in the wake of the fires and LA28 CEO Reynold Hoover said the Games would be an economic engine, providing a benefit of about $18 billion to the city and region. "The Games are going to be great and I think everybody will be uplifted by it," Hoover told Reuters on Thursday. "It's a unifying force to bring everybody together around sport." (Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; editing by Clare Fallon)
Straits Times
08-05-2025
- Sport
- Straits Times
LA Games give city an opportunity to improve, Mayor Bass says
FILE PHOTO: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass poses for a photo during an interview at Los Angeles City Hall, California, U.S., October 17, 2024. REUTERS/Rory Carroll/File Photo LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles will be ready to welcome the world when it hosts the Olympics in 2028 and will use the time leading up to the opening ceremony to improve the city, LA Mayor Karen Bass said on Thursday. Games organizers LA28 revealed earlier in the day that Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood would host the opening ceremony in an unprecedented dual-venue celebration, marking another milestone in planning. "Our city and our country is going through challenging times right now but the Games present a unique opportunity for all of us to come together and work with urgency to better our city," Bass said at a press conference at Memorial Coliseum. "This is the only time the world comes together as one and I know that we will leave a lasting legacy for generations to come." Bass said Memorial Coliseum would serve as the "heartbeat" for a Games that will stretch from the San Fernando Valley in the north to Trestles Beach in the south with competitions in downtown LA, Long Beach, Universal Studios and beyond. "The entire city will be on display," she said. To that end Bass has launched Shine LA, a program that brings communities together to beautify neighborhoods block by block. "Whether we are planting trees or painting or sprucing up our schools, we're going to come together and prepare for the world," Bass said. Los Angeles was hit by a series of devastating wildfires in January that reduced entire neighborhoods to ash, leaving some to wonder if it was wise for the city to host the mega-sporting event. California Governor Gavin Newsom has referred to the Games as the "Recovery Games" in the wake of the fires and LA28 CEO Reynold Hoover said the Games would be an economic engine, providing a benefit of about $18 billion to the city and region. "The Games are going to be great and I think everybody will be uplifted by it," Hoover told Reuters on Thursday. "It's a unifying force to bring everybody together around sport." REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Reuters
08-05-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
LA Games give city an opportunity to improve, Mayor Bass says
LOS ANGELES, May 8 (Reuters) - Los Angeles will be ready to welcome the world when it hosts the Olympics in 2028 and will use the time leading up to the opening ceremony to improve the city, LA Mayor Karen Bass said on Thursday. Games organizers LA28 revealed earlier in the day that Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood would host the opening ceremony in an unprecedented dual-venue celebration, marking another milestone in planning. "Our city and our country is going through challenging times right now but the Games present a unique opportunity for all of us to come together and work with urgency to better our city," Bass said at a press conference at Memorial Coliseum. "This is the only time the world comes together as one and I know that we will leave a lasting legacy for generations to come." Bass said Memorial Coliseum would serve as the "heartbeat" for a Games that will stretch from the San Fernando Valley in the north to Trestles Beach in the south with competitions in downtown LA, Long Beach, Universal Studios and beyond. "The entire city will be on display," she said. To that end Bass has launched Shine LA, a program that brings communities together to beautify neighborhoods block by block. "Whether we are planting trees or painting or sprucing up our schools, we're going to come together and prepare for the world," Bass said. Los Angeles was hit by a series of devastating wildfires in January that reduced entire neighborhoods to ash, leaving some to wonder if it was wise for the city to host the mega-sporting event. California Governor Gavin Newsom has referred to the Games as the "Recovery Games" in the wake of the fires and LA28 CEO Reynold Hoover said the Games would be an economic engine, providing a benefit of about $18 billion to the city and region. "The Games are going to be great and I think everybody will be uplifted by it," Hoover told Reuters on Thursday. "It's a unifying force to bring everybody together around sport."
